Teachers and Workshop Leaders List

Mountain Dulcimer Teacher
from Madison, Alabama.

Jon teaches mountain dulcimer at home and at Decatur High School in Madison.
Contact Jon by e-mail for teaching times.

Hammered Dulcimer Teacher/Performer
from Tucson, Arizona.

Anna started playing the mountain dulcimer in 1976, but began playing and performing primarily on the hammered dulcimer in 1986. She taught and performed on the mountain dulcimer through out Arizona and the U.S. Anna was the "hammer" of "Arm & Hammer" with guitarist Stefan George, performing together for over 13 years and recording five albums. With the new millennium she started a career as a solo hammered dulcimer artist. In October of 2001 she released her first Spanish/Latin solo album "Dulcianna.. A Southwest Dulcimer". She currently plays a blend of Spanish Classical & Latin Folk. She also continues to teach and perform at festivals through out the country and in March of 2002 she began studying and performing Spanish music with Dr. Jorge Pastrana D.M.A.

"Duff is a master at her instrument, energetic, intriguing and inimitable acoustic artistry"...Tucson Citizen.

"Anna's playing is ethereal!"...Arizona Daily Star.

"A delicate and controlled Hammered Dulcimer Player"...Tucson Weekly.

"Anna does a beautiful job of bringing this unusual instrument to life!" March, 2000... Tombstone Independent.

Mountain Dulcimer Teacher
from Prescott, Arizona.

For teaching schedule, contact Ken by phone or e-mail.

Mountain Dulcimer Teacher
from Little Rock, Arkansas.

Linda is the 2001 Winfield Mountain Dulcimer National Champion!
For teaching schedule, contact Linda by phone or e-mail.
Visit Linda's Website!

Hammered and Mountain Dulcimer Teacher/Performer
from Saratoga, California.

Peter has been teaching and performing on mountain and hammered dulcimer since 1977. He mostly plays Celtic (Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Breton, Shetland, Galician, Manx, Cornish) and Old Timey American instrumental tunes, but also some songs, and a bit of contemporary stuff. He currently teaches at Gryphon Stringed Instruments (Palo Alto, CA), and is working on a book with Neal Hellman & Michael Rugg (formerly of CapriTaurus dulcimers) called THE CELTIC DULCIMER ENCYCLOPEDIA. Previously wrote "TEACH YOURSELF TO PLAY THE DULCIMER" (Kicking Mule). Albums include "PETER TOMMERUP & FRIENDS" and he is working on a new CD with his band, SLAINTE("cheers" in Irish Gaelic). He has taught at Appalachian Dulcimer Week at Boone, NC; Summer Solstice and Dulcimer Festival, Los Angeles, CA; Blackpoint Camp of Oldtime and Traditional Music, Novato, CA; Eel River Music Camp, Mendecino area of CA; and co-founded Red Wood Dulcimer Day, Santa Cruz, CA.

Mountain Dulcimer Teacher/Performer
from Yreka, California.

Dan Daniels, owner of New Traditions Dulcimer Company in Yreka, California, is not only known as a teacher of mountain dulcimer, mountain banjo and guitar, but is also known as a local church pastor, and a performer of Old Time Music. Dan's performances have taken him from the West Coast to the East and back again. Dan is also known as a recording artist, radio personality and voice over talent.

Private lessons are available for all ages focusing upon the beginner to intermediate student.

Mountain Dulcimer Teacher/Performer
from Berkeley, California.

"I'm astonished at the number of folks who come up to me after a gig, look at my dulcimer and say, "I've got one of those around the house, but don't know what to do with it." "Play it," I say! So, after many years of hearing this, along with a prod or two from friends, I'm offering dulcimer lessons.

Appalachian (Mountain) dulcimer is really easy to make music with. All you need to know is the tunings and some basic strums & you're off with the best of the folkies. I also teach how to chord, which is not often done with dulcimer, and will share my chord charts with you so you can jam with other instruments.

Contact me if you're interested in joining a class or scheduling private lessons ($50/hr). I'd be up for working with you and a friend, too, so you can share the cost."
-- Deborah

Mountain Dulcimer Teachers/Performers
from San Diego, California.

Connie Allen currently teaches from her home in San Diego to the Eastern US and performs passionately making fretted dulcimer accessible to a wide variety of audiences and musicians. Her grounding in music theory and love of diatonic diversity take dulcimer from its traditional Appalachian roots back to renaissance Europe and forward to hot swing tunes.

Bill Dempsey is a full time music teacher and both conduct workshops, practice groups, and write educational material for their respective instruments.

Connie and Bill have appeared at the San Diego Folk Festival 2000, Claremont Spring Folk Festival, Live Oak Children's Stage, Dana Point Tall Ships Festival, Harvest Festival of Dulcimers, Poway Train Song Festival as well as various libraries, historical site and schools. They play and teach with the hope of inspiring music in everyone.

Mountain and Hammer Dulcimer Teacher
from Los Angeles, CA.

Jennifer Ranger, owner of The Music Studio, based inside The Dollmakers retail store, is a well known performer and teacher of both hammered and fretted dulcimers. Her lively performances and numerous cable television appearances over the years have resulted in a very active and successful music lesson appointment book, burgeoning with 25 to 30 students weekly.

Providing a place for students of all ages and levels of experience to learn in a fun, friendly and non-intimidating atmosphere is Jennifer's top priority!

Call her Toll Free at 1.877.365.5744.

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Mountain Dulcimer Teacher
from Fort Collins, Colorado.

Steve teaches Mountain and Hammered dulcimers, guitar, mandolin, hand percussion, and bowed psaltery. He says his goal is to help the student sing his or her soul through the instrument of their choice. Interaction and dialogue, spiced with humor are the mode of instruction. Teaching location: Home Studio and LCM/CSU, 805 S. Shields. Teaching times: Mon noon-9 pm; Tues 8 am-9 pm; Group Dulc Lesson 1st Sat in Greeley, 2nd Sat in Fort Collins.

Visit Steve's Website!

Mountain Dulcimer Teacher
from Colorado Springs and Canon City, Colorado.

Malacha teaches dulcimer at home in Colorado Springs.

Mountain Dulcimer Teacher/Performer
from Sherman, Connecticut.

   Rob teaches mountain dulcimer, hammer dulcimer and guitar in New Haven CT, and Danbury CT, and he travels to the greater NYC area. He has taught at most major festivals, is published by Mel Bay, and is a recording artist and performer.

Mountain Dulcimer Teacher/Performer
from Litchfield, Connecticut.

Thomasina is a singer, song writer and mountain dulcimer player who has performed throughout the U.S. in a variety of venues. She has been on staff at many of the more prestigious festivals in the U.S. such as Boone, Swannanoa, Dulcimer Daze, The Gathering in California, Cranberry, Housatonic, Black Smith House Dulcimer Festival and Mountain Music in the Ocean State. Her nurturing teaching style allows her students to stretch their boundaries in a large variety of topics on the mountain dulcimer. Her workshops vary from novice to advanced and include instruction on how to use the capo, playing rounds and fiddle tunes, jamming and playing with others, how to practice, left hand embellishments, singing with the dulcimer, children's songs, minor scales and songs, understanding modes and tunings, playing an equidistant-stringed dulcimer, chromatic dulcimer, and arranging songs on dulcimer.

Mountain Dulcimer Teacher/Performer
from Wilmington, Delaware.

Bill offers private lessons on mountain dulcimer. He has conducted workshops and performed at a number of dulcimer festivals in the Northeast. He has produced three books of arrangements for mountain dulcimer: "COME LIFE, SHAKER LIFE," "CAROLAN'S DULCIMER," and "THE BEST IN THE BAG."

Mountain Dulcimer teacher
from Wildwood, Florida.

Ok, first, I will tell you that Wildwood is about 60 miles NW of Orlando, and 30 miles S of Ocala. St. Pete is about 100 miles SW, and Jax is maybe 135 miles NE. Jan is right where I 75 and the Florida turnpike join up.

Jan has been teaching dulcimer since 1980, except for the 10 years after her husband died. She teaches mostly beginners and that is what she really enjoys doing -- Giving the love of the dulcimer to pass along to others.!

Mountain Dulcimer teacher
from Sorrento, Florida.

Ruth has been teaching students in Central MA. before moving to Central Florida. She has studied with Lorraine Lee Hammond of Brookline MA. Ruth has taught workshops at the Black Smith House Dulcimer festival in Cambridge,MA.

Instruction - Group and private lessons. She is familiar with 4 equidistant strings and enjoys teaching the geography of the dulcimer.

Mountain Dulcimer teacher
from Panama City, Florida.

David carries a BM from Alabama State 1986 and teaches Mountain and Hammered Dulcimer, Guitar, Bass, Violin/Fiddle, Lap and peddel steel, Dobro, Mandolin, Cello, Harp, and Viola.

Location:
Awesome Music
2451 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd
Panama City, Florida 32405

Hours of operation:
Mon-Fri - 10:00 AM to 7:00 PM and Sat - 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM
Holiday hours:
Sunday after Thanksgiving till Christmas Day
Also Sundays - 12:00 Noon till 5:00 PM.

Mountain Dulcimer Teacher
from Blue Ridge, Georgia.

Mary teaches mountain dulcimer in her home in Blue Ridge. She enjoys teaching playing basics for the dulcimer and also can present advanced beginner techniques.

Mountain Dulcimer Teacher
from Flintstone, Georgia.

Joseph teaches mountain dulcimer and sitar in his home or yours. He teaches direct folk methods and how to play by ear.

Mountain Dulcimer Teacher
from Alpharetta, Georgia.

Patrecia teaches mountain dulcimer in her home in Alpharetta. She teaches all levels from beginning to advanced including fingerpicking, flatpicking and strumming techniques.

Mountain Dulcimer Teacher
from Athens, Georgia.

Rob teaches mountain dulcimer, mandolin and guitar in his home and at the local music school. Visit Rob's Website!

Mountain Dulcimer Teacher
from Boise, Idaho.

Karen teaches appalachian dulcimer, guitar, mandolin, and banjo in her home. She conducts private lessons or music groups for preschool through adult.

Hammered & Mountain Dulcimer teacher/performer
from Warrenville, Illinois.

Lessons at Old Town School of Folk Music, Chicago, Illinois
Phone: 773.728.6000
and Folk-Lore Center, Warrenville, Illinois
Phone: 630.393.1247

Dona's Bio:
Dona is well known throughout the Midwest as an accomplished dulcimer player. Dona plays both the Hammered Dulcimer and the Appalachian Dulcimer. She started teaching private lessons at the Old Town School of Folk Music in l989. In 1993 She opened the Folk-Lore Center in Warrenville, IL. Her teaching styles include: Old-time Traditional, Irish, Contemporary, Ragtime, English Country Dance Tunes, classical and international. All levels of lessons, beginners to advanced, including 4 equidistant string on mountain dulcimer. She has the ability to draw any audience into the music, and incorporates the history and tradition of the instrument into her teaching. Dona makes learning about the music of our ancestors enjoyable for all.

Mountain Dulcimer Teacher
from Mt. Zion, Illinois.

Russ teaches mountain dulcimer and tin whistle weekends and evenings in his home or yours. He has instructed workshops in Mountain Dulcimer at Millikin University School of Music, and Rock Springs Center, Decatur, Illinois and he arranges for the Mountain Dulcimer, flat picking and finger picking the blues, old time, celtic, hymns, jazz and contemporary tunes on standard fretboard in multiple tunings (DAD, DAC, D,F#,A, etc.). Music theory incorporated into lessons.

Mountain Dulcimer Teacher
from Jacksonville, Illinois.

Mike teaches mountain dulcimer in his home, or at the Dickson Mounds Museum in Lewistown, Illinois. All levels welcome - lessons for adults and kids too! Visit Mike's Website!

Mountain Dulcimer Teacher
from Highland Park, Illinois.

Janet teaches mountain dulcimer in her home. Her enthusiasm for the instrument is contagious and she likes nothing better than helping grow the dulcimer community. She has taught workshops at the Chautauqua on the Wabash and Gebhard Woods Dulcimer Festivals, as well as at area clubs. She is currently President of the Dulcimer Society of Northern Illinois (DSNI). Janet is happy to offer flexible scheduling for folks struggling to fit dulcimer playing into hectic lives.