May Festival Schedule

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

Sponsored by The Brookridge Dulcimer Players and Meadows Music featuring classes, concerts, open mic, jamming, etc.

The festival takes place at College Park Baptist Church in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, located at 1701 Polo Rd, just west of the Polo-Reynolda intersection, two blocks from Wake Forest University.  One of the easier ways to get there from the west is to take Business I-40 to the Silas Creek Pkwy exit.  Go north on Silas Creek to Reynolda and go north on Reynolda to Polo.  When you get to the light at Polo Road, turn left and the church is directly in front of you.  There are more detailed directions at the church website.

Instruments: mountain dulcimer, hammered dulcimer, autoharp, banjo.  Guest Performer/Instructors: Doug Berch, Linda Brockinton, Mary Park, Ross Sutter.  Also, class on Make a Whistle (From PVC pipe), Dye a Silk Scarf, Q&A with a Luthier, bowed psaltry.  Possible gospel sing at a local Historic Bed & Breakfast on the day after the fest.  Please register in advance for workshops and for Lasagna dinner.  Lunch available by local nonprofit to support their Cirlces of Support Program.  The theme for Dulcimer Day this year is The Spirit of Music.  This is the 9th year for the fair.  Come to beautiful Duluth and enjoy the great view of Lake Superior.

• Jams
• Workshops
• Concerts
• Old-time music & a little gospel
• Instrument and local craft vendors
• Discounted hotel rates at local hotel- Ask for the Dulcimer Day discount
• Open mike during dinner
• On-line registration or send it in, early bird specials, senior, student and youth discounts.

On-line map & registration forms on the Dulcimer Day Website.

Mountain and Hammered Dulcimer, Voice

• Guided Jams
• Individual workshops for Appalachian dulcimer - all levels
• Ballad workshops with the Greater Boston Folksong Society
• Develop skills and explore the hammered dulcimer
• Friday and Saturday evening Concerts
• Merchant Vendors
• Dulcimer builders/vendors
• Food Vendors
• Restaurant on the premises
• Shopping Nearby

DulciFest Website

Sponsored by the COLUMBUS FOLK MUSIC SOCIETY, INC., this festival is always held on the first full weekend of May and is held at the Battelle-Darby Creek Metro Park.  The Festival usually features 30 or more mini-concerts and teaching workshops, with a main-stage concert in the evening.  Workshops for various traditional instruments, music & other folk arts.  Check web site for specifics.

Held at the Battelle-Darby Creek Metro Park
1775 Darby Creek Drive
Columbus/Galloway, Ohio 43119

This new weekend festival starts with Early Bird Sessions on Friday afternoon and concludes with a Gospel Sing on Sunday morning open to the public.  Featured teachers/performers include:  Maureen Sellers (MD); Rick Thum (HD) and Wanda Degen (AH).  Local folks including Joyce Harrison, Chris Cooperrider, Joe Steiner, Don Thompson, Mary-Jo Ward, Shari Wolf and Louise Ziegler will round out the lineup.

Mountain Dulcimer, Hammered Dulcimer, Autoharp - full schedule and single sessions on harmonica, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, bodhran, pennywhistle, bass according to signup.

• Jams
• Workshops
• Concerts
• Open Stage
• Merchant Vendors
• Food Vendors
• Camping
• Showers
• Shopping Nearby

-- The DulciSisters Annual Spring Social --

Held at:
Hunter's Friend Resort
118 Myrtle Lane
Branson, Missouri 65616

• All Instruments Welcome.  Come Join the Jam RELAX AND HAVE FUN !
• Door Prizes and Raffles
• There will be a $5.00 charge for dinner
• Please R.S.V.P. by April 20 for dinner count
• Evening Concerts, Jamming and Socializing
• Sunday Morning: Gospel Gathering

• Held at Cumberland Gap National Historic Park
• The workshops and concerts are all FREE !!

Cumberland Gap Web Site

• Held at Point Mallard Campground, Pavilion A.
  Phone 351-7772 for campground reservations.
• Free Mountain Dulcimer lessons, tune swap, lots of jamming.
• Autoharp and psaltery lessons available

Held in Oakdale Park.
Contests for Mountain Dulcimer and Hammer Dulcimer players, arts and crafts fair, workshops, and concerts.

Info:
Dana Hamilton
904 Houston
Arlington, TX 76012

Oakdale Park camping information.

Held in Henderson, Nevada, in the Las Vegas Valley. Held inside the Convention Center and in front of City Hall on Water Street in downtown Henderson.

Amphitheater and food plaza area, almost 200 juried artists, live entertainment, and a Kids Gallery where children can explore that creative side with interactive activities.

This FREE festival celebrating the mountain dulcimer is sponsored by Metro Parks and the Grand Old Dulcimer Club with support from Vanderbilt University's Blair School of Music.  A day of music, food, dulcimer exhibits, jamming on the porch, a children's tent and free lessons.

Main Stage performances by Joni Bishop, Lee Rowe, Stephen Seifert, Tradition Continues Youth, Adie Gray, Linda Sack, Nashville dulcimer artists and local dulcimer groups.  Stage performances feature dulcimer music from traditional to rock and roll.  Enjoy professional soloists and groups from the area.

The mansion is open to the public with dulcimer displays, Sacred Harp Singers and a Salute to Jean Ritchie.  Food is available from Houston's Meat and Produce.

A family outing on a Sunday afternoon in the heart of Nashville, Tennessee, on the grounds of beautiful and historic Two Rivers Mansion.

Held at the General Butler State Resort Park (halfway between Louisville and Cincinnati off of I-71)

For the first time ever, international craftspeople, players, and lovers of the humble cigar box guitar gather together in Kentucky to celebrate this humble instrument with ancient roots. With a heritage of players ranging from Civil War soldiers to Carl Perkins to Jimi Hendrix, from Blind Lemon Jefferson, to band "The Presidents of the United States of America", the cigar box guitars displayed, built, and played by those at this fest will feature from 1 to 12 strings, made from the humblest woods to the finest ebony, and strung with anything from fishing line to nickel-silver electric strings, all playing blues, funk, country, folk, and bluegrass music.

• Friday evening will feature a welcome jam session under the stars.
• Sunday morning will feature a gospel and traditional folk music brunch at the park's historic Butler-Turpin Home.
• All days will feature a trade-show, where cigar box and other home made instruments may be purchased, as well as parts and plans for their manufacture.
• History seminars, building techniques, and players workshops make up the bulk of Friday and Saturday morning.

Held at the Ruidoso Convention Center.

• $10,000 Cash Poker Run
• Large 4-day Trade Show
• Fireworks show Thursday Night
• Live music Friday & Saturday
• Hill climb Saturday

Held at the Town and Country Christian Church (2133 S. Tucker Road; Shelbyville, IN 46176) and sponsored by the Shelby Arts Council.

There will be workshops offered for all levels of hammered dulcimer, mountain dulcimer, and autoharp. Other workshops will include shape-note singing, guitar, and "odd instruments".

Cost for the entire day, including the evening concert, is $25 if pre-registered and $30 the day of the festial.

There will be a welcome party/jam session on Friday evening, May 15, beginning at 7:00 PM. It will also be held at Town and Country Christian Church, which is air-conditioned and handicapped-accessible.

• A juried outdoor art show that has been a Cloudcroft tradition for 26 years.
• Free admission.
• Spring weather and beautiful scenery.
• Close to golf courses, casino and race track.

Folk College is held at Juniata College in the beautiful Allegheny Mountains of Central Pennsylvania.

Workshops, jams, concerts, and dancing in a college atmosphere. Stay in the dorm and choose from an eclectic offering of old-time, celtic, swing, old country, and international workshops. We'll have concerts, lots of jamming, and a contradance with open band. For all instruments and levels.

The cost for pre-registration is $150 and $175 afterwards. The fee includes all workshops, jams, concerts, and coaching. Housing and meals are available for an additional fee. See the website or contact the Arts Council for current details.

The Kerrville Folk Festival is held annually at the Quiet Valley Ranch, 9 miles south of Kerrville on Texas Hwy 16.  Starting on the Thursday before Memorial Day at the end of May, the music continues for 18 days with performances by more than 100 singer songwriters and their bands.

Interspersed between weekends are workshops in songwriting and booking and management for touring artists performance and recording.  The annual Kerrville New Folk songwriting competition is held on the first weekend and draws 32 of the best of America's emerging songwriters.  Award winners are recognized at a special concert on the second weekend.

Gates open at 8:00 a.m.
Enjoy the diversity of Florida's culture and history when its residents share their food, music, dance, stories, crafts and work life.  Visit Seminole family camp, watch the state fiddling contest and savor ethnic food and church supper favorites.  Pets are not allowed.

Fees to be announced at a later date.
For more information, call 386.397.7005.

For advance tickets, call 1.877.635.3655 or visit the Folk Festival Website.

Held in the Fiddler's Grove Campground. Since its inception nearly three-quarters of a century ago, this fiddling event has focused on traditional American music. This dedication has earned the event a reputation as one of the most prestigious and authentic fiddling competitions in the United States. In May, 2000, Fidder's Grove received the Local Legacy award from the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. More than 50 traditional bands in old time and bluegrass divisions (Junior and Senior categories) vie for the coveted championships of the festival.

Held over Memorial Day weekend every year. The festival strives to maintain a low-key, family feel by limiting ticket sales to the first 5,000 takers. Camping is available on site in this beautiful wooded area of the Brushy Mountain foothills.

On stage competition and workshops in all instrumental categories, as well as the informal jam sessions spring up any time of the day or night throughout the festival grounds. There are individual Junior and Senior competitions in fiddle, banjo, autoharp, mandolin, harmonica, guitar, dulcimer, hammered dulcimer, dobro, and bass fiddle.

On the pickin' porch at Posto Verdi - 14 miles outside of Sullivan, Missouri.

Mostly mountain dulcimers - but other instruments are welcome.

Just a day to have fun, music, fellowship -- We will do the meat dish -- pulled pork or burgers and hot dogs or chili or or or well something like that.  You come with your dulcimer, something to sit on -- we have some chairs but maybe not enough, and a side dish or dessert, and the expectation of having a good time.

• Held at the BSA Camp McKinley
• Concerts, workshops, mini-concerts, and more
• Mountain Dulcimer and Hammered Dulcimer

Dulci-More Festival Website

Held near Jack's Studio on Shiloh Road off HWY 293. Primitive creek-side camping available. The setting is beautiful along the west fork of the Obey River on the Cumberland Plateau. Bring your gear, instruments, family and a group of friends and have a wonderful weekend. You can purchase ice, food, soft drinks and coffee. When ordering tickets, specify if you have an RV or tent.

Information: Jammin' Website

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!