September Festival Schedule

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

• 10 AM to 6 PM.
• 100 artist's booths & 12 food venders
• Kid's Booth: The kids can be creative in our Kid’s Art Activities Corner, have their faces painted, create balloon animals with Magic Man or make giant bubbles with Jim Jackson and Birgitta DePree from Manitou Art Theatre.
• Live Entertainment all day - Jazz, Reggae, acoustic and original music can be heard throughout the three days.
• Free Admission!

All the Labor day campers will be leaving the campground as usual and there will be plenty of spots available. They have re-lettered the camping areas, so just ask at the ranger station when registering where to go. The music is pretty much continual, no workshops, no schedules, just come and play, jam, sing and eat. This is pretty much set up by Ray Hilt, Gary Sager's 87 year old fiddle playing friend, and there will also be guitar, banjo, mandolin, dulcimers (both types) etc.

Held at the Sandpoint Church Of The Nazarene, 477954 Hwy. 95 North. Registration is $5, and will open at 8:30 AM. Workshops will start at 9:00. Anyone who would like to teach a workshop can email Peggy Carter.

All acoustic musicians are invited. $5 general admission + $15 for each workshop. Enjoy jamming and a concert. There will be informal jamming throughout the day, with food available on site. A free open-mic concert at 7:00 will climax the festivities. The church invites any and all to attend services on Sunday. Acoustic music will be presented in both services.

Lodging arrangements have been made at the Motel 6 at 477255 Hwy. 95 North. (Call 208.263.1883 for reservations and ask for Neal.) The church and motel are very close, and are both actually in Ponderay which is just North of Sandpoint.

The festival starts with the 7:30 p.m. Thursday Tattoo. The field is open Friday from noon until 5 and 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. The parade is Saturday morning at 9:30 on Elkhorn Avenue. Evening activities Friday and Saturday at 7:30 are: the Colorado Celtic Concert, the Folk Concert, and Tattoo Estes. The 9 p.m. Ceilidh (a Celtic version of a New Year's Eve party!) starts after the other events end and the celebrating continues into the wee hours of the next morning. Sunday evening marks the end of the festival with the Honored Guest Banquet, a superb meal complete with dress kilts, suits, evening dress attire for the ladies, a cash bar and live entertainment.

• Concert in the gazebo
• Food booths, juried art booths
• Jamming
• Held in Lincoln, NM, across from the old court house.
• Plenty of local RV parks and campgrounds available.

Close to Casino Apache Travel Center, Inn of the Mountain Gods, the Ruidoso Downs Race Track, Museum of the Horse, and Smokey Bear Museum.

• Always Labor Day Weekend
• 10 AM to 5 PM Daily
• High Quality Arts & Crafts, Demonstrations
• Booth spaces start at 10x12

A Wide Array Of Country Foods, Pioneer Camp Exhibits, Entertainment, Theme Show - Pioneer Dress 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.

Held at the Greenwood Furnace State Park, an absolutely gorgeous location between State College and Huntingdon in central Pennsylvania, on the Mifflin County border. ( on Rt. 305 off Rt.26 North of Huntingdon, South of State College, and east off Rt. 655 ). Organized by Simple Gifts and the Huntingdon County Arts Council.

This is the weekend that the Cook Forest festival used to be held. For those of you who remember and miss that event, come to this instead. It's held at a state park and will have the same open, informal feel. You can camp onsite, and we'll have plenty of workshops, jams, dancing, and concerts. For all instruments and levels. Instructors and performers TBA.

This is a gathering for folk musicians of all instruments and levels, with workshops, jams, concerts, and a square dance (where you can either dance or play). There's stuff for non-musicians too, plus the park has swimming (spring fed lake with sand beach) and many miles of hiking and mountain bike trails, so bring the family.

Web Site: Greenwood Furnace Website

Traditional musical instruments such as the dulcimer, fiddle, and guitar are used to tell stories about life long ago along the foothills of Eastern Kentucky.

Wednesday night is a free concert in the campground. Thursday open stage concert at the amphitheatre. Friday afternoon open stage, banjo, and dulcimer gathering. Friday night evening concert in the amphitheatre. Saturday afternoon open stage, ballads, storytelling, fiddle, and guitar gathering. Saturday night we have an evening concert. Sunday morning gospel music in the campground. Admission for the concerts and jam sessions range between $3 and $10 per person.

Held at the Historic Hilltop House Hotel.
Learn to play the hammered dulcimer or hone your skills on another instrument in an ensemble workshop at the Upper Potomac Dulcimer Fest.

Intensive three-day workshop with open mikes, showcase concert, jam sessions and over 30 workshops for hammered dulcimer players of all levels, with rental instruments available. The workshops take place in an intimate retreat setting at the Historic Hilltop House Hotel in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.

Featured teachers and performers in 2006 will probably include Xiao Xiannian and Bamboo Breeze, Karen Ashbrook, Ken Kolodner, Maggie Sansone, Jody Marshall, Paul Oorts, Dan Landrum, Nick Blanton and more TBA.

Held at Camp Reveal
1040 E. Boonville New Harmony Road
Parking $7.50 for both days.
All proceeds going to Camp Reveal.
Festival & Concerts Free

Blue Grass Creek Website

In celebration of the Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield. KS, the Great Plains Dulcimer Alliance (based in Wichita, Kansas) hosts an all day picnic with workshops and music the weekend before Winfield. The dulcimer club sponsors this free & open to the public event, which has taken place at Island Park in Winfield, for many years. For more information, check out their website - and click on events.

Acoustic music: workshops, jamming, picnic, evening concerts, and open mike.

They are looking for donations for the Drawings which are held in the evening during the concert.
Thanks so much.
Please send donations to:
Jan Jennings
1743 Tiara Pines
Derby, KS 67037

Held at the Ruidoso Downs Sports Theatre Complex.

• 2007 AMA Nationall Road Riding Convention
• 86,400 ft Trade Show
• Creedence Clearwater Revisited Live in Concert
• Two Parades!
• Field events and games
• Bike Judging
• King and Queen Contest
• Poker Run

National contests for hammered and mountain dulcimers and other instruments.
Workshops, concerts, all-night jams, arts & crafts fair.

Info:
Bob Redford
PO Box 245
Winfield Kansas 67156

• Held at Fairfield County Fairgrounds
• Workshops
• Vendors
• Jamming
• Bean and pot luck dinners
• Open stage
• Hymn sing
• Raffle.
  
• Camping available

Located on San Diego Avenue, between Conde Street and Twiggs Street in the Historic Old Town State Park. This is a two-day Festival celebration featuring fine art, continuous live music, a variety of international foods and an interactive family area featuring hands-on art activities and creative challenges for children. 200 selected artists and crafts people from across the nation will show and sell the latest in lifestyle, one-of-a-kind artwork including paintings, sculpture, ceramics, fashion, furniture and jewelry. There are seven hotels within a short walk of the festival.

More info: Frank Maguire, Festival Director, P. O. Box 3258, Tempe, Arizona 85280-3258

Held Saturday only -- 10:30am - 5:30pm
Workshops, concerts, jamming at Fernwood Botanical Gardens, Niles, Michigan.

See the Southwest Michigan Festival Website!

See the Lakeside Melodies Resort Website for information on cabin rentals.

Located 20 minutes north of Beaumont on US HWY 96.
Festival will be held at the First Baptist Church, 845 HWY 96 South in Silsbee (Just north of Casa Ole restaurant), and the Community Center located next door.

Workshops and concert.
Lots of jamming, a free open mic concert Friday night and the Grand Concert, also free, Saturday night featuring our talented instructors. Lots of nice door prizes.

Nutmeg is moving into new, larger quarters this year, at the Unitarian Society of New Haven. It's roughly a mile from our former site. This gives us more space for workshops), and it finally lets us put all the hammered dulcimer workshops on a single hallway. Plus, they have an amphitheater-like main sanctuary for the concerts.

The festival will include concerts Friday and Saturday nights, plus a full day of activities Saturday.

We have another great lineup of workshops -- ranging from middle-of-the-road to cutting-edge -- for hammered and mountain dulcimer players of all levels. Our workshop leaders this year come from practically every state in the Northeast, including many familiar favorites from previous Nutmegs, as well as some great, new faces.

To register go to Registration Page

Held at the Calvary Church located at the corner of Madison Avenue and Second Avenue, in Memphis, Tennessee. Exceptional musicians will be teaching classes in hammered dulcimer, mountain dulcimer, and mandolyn.

The two day festival will offer workshops, concerts, vendors, jams, food, and friendship.

The NGFDA Peach Jam moves from Jekyll Island to FDR State Park Campground in Pine Mountain Georgia in hopes of dodging hurricane threats and coastal bugs 'n bugs! Many of us are devoted islanders who bid Jekyll a fond adieu!!!! In keeping with the original intent of the Peach Jam, we want to continue to offer this NGFDA gathering in an accessible area to our Central and South Georgia, North Florida, and Eastern Alabama membership and at the same time provide a great get-away for our concentrated North Georgia members too.

The jamming, fireside cooking and pot luck meals will take place in the FDR State Park Campground - Section 5 in the little covered Pavilion structure. Campers and day-trip jammers welcome! Section 5 is located just off the back gate of the FDR campground. You can enter front or back until gates are locked after 10 pm.

Hi river runners and aspiring river runners,

The 2008 edition of the Moons and Tunes Wilderness River Trip will be on Cataract Canyon of the Green River. We start just south of Green River, Utah and take out in Lake Powell.

We've waited many years to be able to do this particular run so fasten your seat belts and join the fun! Cataract Canyon itself is known world wide as some of the most interesting white water to be found. Before we get to Cataract we float peacefully through some of the most beautiful scenery the Utah Canyon Country has to offer - Stillwater and Labyrinth Canyons. These take us into and through Canyonlands National Park and then we reach Cataract and have a full day of spectacular whitewater which delivers us to Lake Powell for some more blissful floating into Hite. Each day has it's joys - the white water is exhilarating, and the flatwater lends itself well to contemplative silent floating or a little music making on the boats.

We'll meet at Green River State Park in Green River, Utah, on Sunday, September 29 around 5 PM. We put in early the next morning. We take out six days, five nights later on Saturday, Oct. 4 late in the day and are returned to Green River.