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!

The Black Swamp Arts Festival (BSAF) connects art and the community by presenting an annual music and arts festival and by promoting the arts in the Bowling Green community.

The Black Swamp Arts & Music Festival welcomes submissions for all types of music, theater, performance, and dance.

• Main Stage hosts national and local acts spanning all musical genres. Located between East Wooster and South Prospect streets, it is easily accessible. This stage overlooks the food court and beer garden.
  
• Electronic Stage will feature various artists performing electronica-style music and experimental sounds.  The stage location is at Grumpy Dave's Pub above Easystreet Cafe.
  
• Huntington Bank Courtyard
  Unique music and live entertainment is scattered throughout the Festival site. Every year we add new performers and bring back some past favorites. Keep an eye out for roaming performers or stop by the Huntington Bank Courtyard to see an acoustic set.
  
• Peanut Butter & Rock Teen Stage
  The teen scene has spoken and the Festival has heard! This stage features hot local bands in a teen-friendly environment.
  
• Music History
  View previous musicians who have performed at the Black Swamp Arts Festival over the years.
  

The festival starts with the 7:30 PM Thursday Tattoo.  The field is open Friday from noon until 5 and 9 AM - 5 PM 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.

Presented by the Dulcimer Society of Northern Illinois.

A Grammy nomination, Opus and Winfield prizes have brought well-deserved recognition to Steve, a highly skilled player of mountain and hammer dulcimers, other string instruments and a gifted songwriter and vocalist.  He says, “Yes! Dulcimers can play jazz and blues”, and he'll teach a jazz and blues workshop for dulcimers and other acoustic instruments at this meeting.  Tune-up at 1:30, program begins at 2pm.  $20 for members; $25 for guests.

• 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 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.

• AMA National 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

• Jams
• Workshops
• Concerts
• Open Stage
• Merchant Vendors
• Open Stage

Butch Ross is the guest instructor.  His classes are $10 each.  We also have free beginner classes with local instructors Dale Anthony (DAD) and Jon Harris (DAA and DGD).  Lunch is offered on Friday for $8.50.  There will be a door prize drawing during lunch.  You must be present to win.  On Friday, we will also have a Dinner at a local restaurant , and Butch Ross will be giving a concert afterwards.  The concert is free, but donations are appreciated.  After the last workshop on Saturday, there will be a cookout at Jon Harris' home.  Sunday is our festival at Burritt Museum.  It includes jamming, vendors, and open stage.

Pre-registration for the workshops begins June 1, 2010, and ends September 10, 2010.  After that, please register at First Baptist Church of Madison, AL.

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

Main workshops for mountain and hammered dulcimer with a mixed bag slate of workshops for autoharp, bowed psaltery, banjo, mandolin, bones, etc.

• Jams
• Workshops
• Concerts
• Open Stage
• Merchant Vendors
• Food Vendors
• Pets Not Allowed
• Shopping Nearby

Two days of workshops, jams, Instructor Concert, vendors.  Free midday concert and free midday jam session.  All acoustic instruments welcome.

Come Join the Fun -- a 3-day mountain and hammered dulcimer festival at the Guntersville Recreation Center and adjoining Senior Center on beautiful lake Guntersville, Alabama.

• 15 hours of mountain dulcimer instruction working with nationally known instructors.
  
  
• Choose your level of experience: Beginner/Novice, Intermediate and Advanced Tracks for Mountain Dulcimer or intermediate for Hammered Dulcimer.  Sessions will focus on playing technique, repertoire building and ensemble playing.
  
  
• 4 additional hours of your choice of Appalachian music, dance, heritage or culture.
  
  
• Evening activities, jamming, vendors, Contra Dance, Open Stage, Instructor's Concert, singing and more!
  

Early bird $125 for all workshops and evening activities.
Meal plan will be available

An 11:30 AM concert is free and open to the public, in addition to the ticketed twilight concert at 6 PM. Featured performers will be Bing Futch, from Orlando FL, on fretted dulcimer; Jody Marshall from McLean VA, on hammered dulcimer. They are both nationally known players of dulcimers, and many excellent local players will also be teaching and performing. For those wanting to learn more, teaching workshops will be held all day long on various aspects of the instruments and music, including classes for guitar, piano, ukulele, tin whistle and percussion. There will also be food and musical vendors, and musicians young and old will be around the grounds, jamming and singing.

Concerts & workshops:
Hammered & Fretted Dulcimers & other instruments.

Sponsored by the Southern California Dulcimer Heritage (SCDH)
(Non-Profit ID 33-067-996)

Comp. Passes:
Members of the press/media admitted free of charge w/Press I.D.

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.