June Festival Schedule

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

The seventeenth annual Yellowbanks Dulcimer Festival will be held "On the Banks of the Ohio" at English Park, 25 Hanning Lane, Owensboro, Kentucky 42301. The event consists of FREE concerts on Friday & Saturday evenings and FREE workshops Friday afternoon and all day Saturday. Concert performers and workshop instructors are: Peggy Carter, Atwater-Donnelly, Kara Barnard, Jeff Hames, Bing Futch and Gary & Toni Sager. Instruction on various instruments from beginners to advanced, children to adults will be available. Handmade crafts, music vendors and food in a park setting add to the festival atmosphere (bring your lawn chair). We have limited R.V. space (self-contained reservation required). For overnight lodging call Sleep Inn, 270-691-6200. A block of rooms are reserved for our guests -- mention "Yellowbanks". Call early.

Music week with classes (includes MD), concerts, and jamming.

Info: Mars Hill College, P O Box 6785, Mars Hill NC 28754

Blue Ridge Website

We invite you to one of the largest FREE Irish festivals in the Midwest. That's right, we said free. There are no admission or parking fees at the Riverfront Irish Festival. The new festival site, Falls River Square is one of the best venues in the Midwest. Presented by the Ancient Order of Hibernians, there will be performers, vendors, concerts, and food booths among other fun things. The festival runs from 5pm to Midnight on Friday, 1pm to Midnight on Saturday and begins on Sunday with Mass at 11am and entertainers on stage from 12:45pm to 7pm.

Held at the Coconino Center for the Arts, 2300 N. Fort Valley Road, Flagstaff, Arizona. Produced by the Flagstaff Friends of Traditional Music and sponsored by Acoustic Music Arizona (AMAZ).

• Band Scramble
• Workshops
• Textile Exhibit
• Barn Dance

Held in the shady concert park in the Delta County Fairgrounds in downtown Hotchkiss. On-site rough camping. Jams. Workshops. Sunday morning Gospel. Kids playground. Easy walk to town for restaurants, groceries and shopping!

Held at at Houghton College. Sponsored by the Allegheny Mountain Dulcimer Players along with the Ischua Valley Dulcimer Club.

This is a three day festival with lots of workshops and jamming, concerts and fun! Kids under 12 free. The cost of the festival is $120.00. Includes: Four workshops, open stage, two concerts featuring Simple Gifts, Dan Duggan and friends, two nights dorm room with linens, meals, Breakfest lunch and dinner.

Held in Gebhard Woods State Park, this festival features concerts and workshops running continuously 10am to 6pm each day.

• Open Mic.
• Music and food vendors.
• Admission is free.

Gebhard Woods Website

Live Music!  Great Vendors!

Held at Schreiner University.
Workshops, Jams, Concerts.

Contact E-Mail
Or E-Mail Peggy Carter

Hill Country Website

Always held on Father's Day weekend
at the Nevada County Fairgrounds.
Presented by the California Bluegrass Association

• Preformers
• Cloggers
• Workshops
• Luthier Pavillion
• Childrens Program
• Food Concessions
• Vendors

Always held on Father's Day weekend
at the Mojave Narrows Regional Park.
Presented by the Southwest Bluegrass Association

• Vendors
• Friday Night Barn Dance
• Line Dance Workshops
• Clog Dancing
• California State Arm Wrestling Championships
• Route 66 Classic Car Show
• 1880's Games & Contests
• Food Concessions

Held at the Coshocton Lake Park Pavilion.

The festival weekend will include:

• The Mid-Eastern Regional Dulcimer Championships (Hammered and Mountain)
• Various music workshops
• Open, vocal, and duet contests
• Jam sessions
• A dulcimer club concert
• A gospel sing
• A Saturday evening concert.

The festival runs from 11:00 AM to 11:00 PM Saturday, June 17, at the State Fairgrounds. There will be a Mountain Dulcimer workshop at 11:00 AM called 3-chord workshop (D G A). This will be followed by a jam with the Albuquerque club where all the pieces of music uses only D, G, and A. There are performances and workshops all day long.

The festival is open to all forms of songwriting from the novice to the pro.
The festival is not a contest or competition.

Held Saturday and Sunday, 2PM to Midnight at the Hall of Fame Lounge.

• Free Song Demos recorded live to CD for all "Open MIC" writers.
• Complimentary food.
• Taking registrations for the June Nashville SongWriters Festival on Music Row

Music Row Best Western
1407 Division Street
Nashville, TN 37203

No workshops. No preparation. Just lots of music and friendship. Will be held at the Whispering Waters Campground. Whispering waters is just outside Hastings Michigan, about 30 miles north and 20 miles east of Kalamazoo. If you used to attend SMDF when it was at the expo center in Hastings, Whispering Waters is the place just south of the expo center that you may have turned into by mistake.

Admission will be $5 per person / per day and includes tent or RV camping (with power) in the common area or rustic tent camping in the field at the north end of the campground if you stay overnight. Note that vehicles are not allowed in the field at any time for any reason, so if you have a camper of any sort, you will need to either camp with us in the common area or call the campground and make a regular reservation for a regular campsite ($24/night).

Reservations are not required unless you have a camping vehicle that requires a regular campsite. Admission will also include all campground facilities like showers and the pool. Rafting, canoeing (sp?) and tubing are also available. There's a river that runs through the campground.

SummerSongs West is a week-long retreat for songwriters taking place at the spectacular Zaca Lake Retreat in Los Olivos. A week of classes in songwriting, guitar, singing, harmony, stagecraft, concerts and song circles. Students and teachers alike will share songs, trade stories and perform for the community they have grown to love. It is sure to be a weekend to remember.

In keeping with the spirit of the canal era, Historic Roscoe Village is bringing the sights, sounds and traditional crafts of the 1800s to you during the 23rd Annual Heritage Craft & Olde Time Music Festival featuring the Coshocton Art Guild Show and Sale.

Roscoe has combined three festivals (Olde Time Music, Ring of the Anvil, and the Art Show) so the true essence of our canal heritage may be illustrated and guest can experience one special weekend filled with music, traditional crafters and art exhibits.

Watch as the blacksmith's anvil rings; as the weaver spins wool; as the carver creates a spoon from a stick; and as an array of heritage crafters demonstrate and sell their traditional, handmade wares. Listen as the sound of bluegrass and old-time music drifts through the air and the strings of the fiddle lure you in. Hone your musical skills by participating in the hammered dulcimer, mountain dulcimer, fiddle, guitar and banjo workshops or let your competitive side show as you compete in the flat-picking guitar contest. Additional festival activities include exhibits, sales and jam sessions.

• Always the last two weekends in June
• 10am to 5pm Daily
• High Quality Arts & Crafts, Demonstrations
• A Wide Array of Country Foods, Pioneer Camp Exhibits
• Entertainment, Theme Show - Pioneer Dress
• Booth spaces start at 10x12

The only craft show known to have a one hour documentary filmed at their location. The festival takes place in a beautiful wooded setting decorated with many rock gardens filled with antiques and flowers. The show has something for everyone: men, women, and children. Continuous entertainment including country & bluegrass bands, DULCIMER music, and illusionists. Exhibitions include covered wagons, Indian tepees, etc. All set in a Pioneer atmosphere.

Last Saturday of each month: May through August Live Music! Great Vendors!

Held in the Courtyard Plaza --
400 Block of S. Myrtle Ave. in Old Town.
The time is 6:00 to 9:00 PM

A series of events that starts in May and will finish up in August. What a fun way to spend a warm balmy summer evening - great music, shopping and good friends.

There will be live music, lots of great vendors and FREE
music lessons on cool instruments like mountain dulcimers, hammered dulcimers, banjos, spoons, etc. This event is
meant for the whole family and entrance is FREE!

This event, always in the last full week of June, takes place at Western Carolina University's small, modern campus located in the beautiful Catamount Gap in North Carolina's Smoky Mountains. This area is one of the country's most beautiful and popular outdoor/vacation areas. Near to I-40 and 4-lane roads. Excellent, economical on-campus housing/meals package and tuition. Campgrounds in vicinity.

This event had its start in the 1970s at Appalachian State Univ. in Boone, North Carolina, and has been described by many participants as the "Cadillac" of dulcimer events for its well-planned and large curriculum for mountain dulcimer players. There are 9 choices of morning playing courses in 7 skill levels. Specialized courses on "Traditional Music for the Appalachian Dulcimer" with Don Pedi, Phyllis Gaskins, Susan Boyer Haley and Norris Bennett; "Ensembles" with Kenneth Bloom, and Dulcimer Building (authentic replica of Uncle Ed Thomas dulcimer - back by request). Extra afternoon coaching for newer players. Afternoons have choies of over 50 two-hr. classes that address different skill levels and many repertoire styles; these enable students to study with several of the staff during the week. An abundance of jam session and sing-along choices, both mid-day and evenings for jammers of various experience levels, led by staff. Evening staff concerts, participants' open stage, Sunday night buffet/get acquainted event, free loaner dulcimers, scholarships, Dulcimer Marketplace, Dulcimer Doctor, chair massages. Staff will include: Karen Mueller, Larry Conger, Paul Andry, Bill Taylor, Linda Brockinton, Don Pedi, Kenneth Bloom, John Huron, Lois Hornbostel, Norris Bennett, Susan Boyer-Haley, Betty Smith, Phyllis Gaskins, Mike Anderson, Aaron O'Rourke, Mark Gilston, Steven K. Smith, Terry Lewis, Will Peebles, Joel Paul, Sarah Borders, Drew Andrews, Doc & Jean Russell, Joe Shelton, Homer Phillips, Barbara Goergen, and more.

Held at the Altamont Fairgrounds.
A family-friendly festival of folk, traditional, Celtic and world music and dance, known for its relaxed atmosphere, interactive sessions and workshops,hands-on experience and participatory nature. In addition to three concerts there are 120 daytime workshops given by performers. Also featured are a juried craft show, food and instrument vendors, and a well-run children's activity area.

Contact E-Mail

Old Songs Website

The CTMS Summer Solstice Festival is unlike most other folk music gatherings. In addition to concerts, jam sessions, and story swaps, the CTMS Festival is a "teaching festival". Musicians, dancers, singers and storytellers from all over the world come to share their knowledge and experience. You will find classes on everything from playing fiddle to vocal warm-ups to contra-dancing and more! The Festival is presented by the California Traditional Music Society.

Info: California Traditional Music Society
4401 Trancas Place, Tarzana, California 91356-5399
Summer Solstice Website

Instruction in MD, HD, other instruments, basket making, and singing. Concerts.
The main hotel is the Days Inn of Bardstown, so be sure and mention KMW festival when booking rooms.

Info: Nancy Barker, Box 86, Bardstown, Kentucky 40004

Kentucky Music Week Website

Concerts, jams, and dancing.
It is a week of intermediate-level classes in mountain and hammered dulcimer playing plus fiddle and percussion.

You can download the application form on the
Northeast Dulcimer Symposium Website.

Northeast Dulcimer Symposium E-Mail