January Festival Schedule

First friday of each month at 7-10 pm
Held at Rivermont Presbyterian Church in Enon, Virginia
(in Chesterfield County)

Lots of Jammin' and Workshops for MD, HD, Autoharp, guitar, harmonica and others.

Kentucky Music Winter Weekend will help you chase away the winter blues with this warm gathering of dulcimer players!

This year our teaching staff includes:  Mountain Dulcimer - Stephen Seifert, Shelley Stevens, Dave Haas, Jan Hammond, Gary Sager;  Hammered Dulcimer - Carrie Crompton, Stephen Humphries, Guy George, Rick Thum; Molly McCormack;  Ukulele - Sharrie George;  Tin Whistle & Steel Drum - Guy George.

Festival features classes, concerts, open stage opportunities, Sunday morning hymn sing, a wonderful jam location that will accommodate the huge jams that are known to happen at KMW!  There are also plenty of smaller jam areas available.

The hotel has a full service restaurant with special buffets available for us, a heated indoor pool, two elevators, beautiful guest rooms and so much more!  $69.00 plus tax per night for lodging includes continental breakfast.

Festival cost for all three days, including over 10 hours of instruction, and all events, is $115.00.

Instruments:  Dulcimer, Hammered Dulcimer, Tin Whistle, Ukulele, Steel Drum

• Jams
• Workshops
• Concerts
• Open Stage
• Merchant Vendors
• Pets Allowed
• Swimming Pool
• Shopping Nearby

Info:  Kentucky Music, Inc., P.O. Box 86, Bardstown, Kentucky 40004

The Portland Oregon Old-Time Music Gathering is a grassroots volunteer-run festival that aims to celebrate and enrich the community of traditional Old-Time Appalachian Stringband Musicians. We wish to create an environment where the music is as meaningful as it is when we gather to swap tunes and play in a friend's living room or meet to play at a campsite during a summer festival. As such, we feel that it is important to keep the event non-profit and volunteer run; whether we are taking tickets, sweeping the floor, organizing an event, or playing music for a concert; we are all volunteers contributing to make this thing happen.

Mountain dulcimer jam (indoor facility)
Open to all other instrument players and non-players.
Mistletoe Park has very nice two-bedroom two-bathroom cabins if you have a buddy to share the cost with. There is a Days Inn within eight miles of the park, right at the I20 exit. Of course, several people will be there as early as Friday and stay until Monday. Yearly weekend gathering of mountain dulcimers and related instruments. Non-participant general public are cordially invited to attend Saturday and Sunday from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm to hear music, ask questions about the instruments and try to play if desired. We will have use of an indoor fully enclosed group shelter with restrooms and kitchen area. This means that weather concerns cannot be an excuse to stay away. We have heat and air conditioning as needed. Participants are invited to join in for a potluck dinner Saturday night followed by some individual playing before returning to jamming.

Camping/Cabin info: 706.541.0321 or 800.864.7275.
Directions:
Park is located off GA Hwy 150, 7.9 miles north of I-20, exit #175.
Event info: Rick or Peggy Ertz, 706.855.7041.

Mistletoe State Park Jam Website

Held at the Spring Mill Inn. Jams start around noon, Evening Concert, and Jamming after Concert. Classes for Mountain Dulcimer, and Hammered Dulcimer, Open Stage, Hymn sing. Inn has Dining Room with Buffets, and Menu Dinning. This is a Free Event with Optional Donation for Evening Concerts. This is a nice get away weekend after the Holidays, and is around a 2 hour drive from Elizabethtown. Call the Spring Mill Inn at 812.849.4081 and ask for Tonya to make your reservations.

Held on a 322-acre plot of mined-over phosphate land just south of Homeland, the Alafia River Rendezvous is a 13-day pre-1840 living history encampment where participants/reenactors set up and live in camps portraying and demonstrating life skills of various Early American cultures, i.e.; British, Irish, Scottish, Spanish and Native American.

At last years gathering, over 1000 lodges were set up housing well over 1600 people. Traders Row was host to well over a hundred traders selling everything from kettle corn to tents to firearms and knives, to beads and sarsaparilla to skins and period clothing of all sorts.

Held at Mitchell RV Park in Perrin, Texas (about 60 miles northwest of Ft. Worth) for a four day jam, food fest, and friendship get together. Music, music and more music, indoors if the weather is bad or outside under the trees if it's warm enough.

There are cabins on the grounds and plenty of RV hookups and motels down the road.
Mitchell RV Park Website
Contact Doris and Kevin at 940.798.4615 for more information.

This event takes place in historic Lambuth Inn, at Lake Junaluska, a conference & retreat center near Waynesville and Maggie Valley, North Carolina. It is in the temperate southern mountains of North Carolina, about an hour from Knoxville, Tennessee, and about 3 hours from Chattanooga, Tennessee. Lake Junaluska is close to I-40. Events consist of mountain dulcimer Skills Refresher Classes with two instructors, jam sessions, informal staff performances, open stage, dulcimer orchestra, and bus tour of Lake Junaluska. Classes for beginner/novice, intermediate, advanced, and for bowed dulcimer players. Economical accommodations/meal packages at Lambuth Inn. Staff: Bill Taylor, Betty Smith, Kenneth Bloom, Jim Miller, Lois Hornbostel, Dr. Will Peebles.

For participant "reviews" and photos of last winter's event.

Held at the Stroudsburg Wesleyan Church

A festival of workshops for the Hammered and Mountain Dulcimer. Mountain and Hammered Dulcimer Workshops: There will be workshops to challenge every level of play and late afternoon jams to apply your latest skills and energize you.

• Friday evening open jam/open stage for early arrivers (7:00pm).
• Saturday begins with registration, tuning, coffee, tea, etc., at 8:00am and culminates with an evening concert at 7:00pm.
• Workshops & concert
• Register after Jan. 8th (or at the door)
• Workshops Individually
• Evening Concert

Registration & Schedule -- please see Pocono Club Website

Held at 5130 Overseas Highway in Key West.  15 of the best players of mountain and hammered dulcimers will present workshops and concerts at the Hurricane Hole Marina.  Only 200 registrations available!

Registration:  $95.00