It’s hard not to be charmed by the first image in Noelle Micarelli’s submission to NPR Music’s Tiny Desk Contest: a miniature mountain dulcimer sitting on a truly tiny desk, beside a small porcelain ...

DANVILLE — Twenty-five years ago this past summer, a group of dulcimer enthusiasts met in the Danville house of one of their members to share their love of the stringed instrument. What originally ...

Boone, Hubert. "De Hommel in de Lage Landen." Brussels Museum of Musical Instruments Bulletin 5 (1975): 9-153. Bryan, Charles Faulkner. "The Hammered Dulcimer." Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin 18 ...

Members share an interest in music. Membership open to Illinois and Indiana residents. Not for profit organization. MISSION: The primary objectives of the association are 1) to further the playing of ...

MOUNT DORA — For Ruth Harnden, no musical note can what’s emitted from one of America’s earliest musical instruments — the mountain or Appalachian dulcimer. “It produces a sweet, easy, acoustic sound, ...

HOW MUCH: $5-$50, plus fees, at abqfolkfest.org; free for children 11 and younger and seniors 85+ Walk a mile in other cultures’ shoes at the Albuquerque Folk Festival. Hosted at the National Hispanic ...

BISHOP HILL, Ill. (KWQC) -The historic Henry County Swedish colony town of Bishop Hill will host a folk music festival this weekend. Bishop Hill Heritage Association invites all to the Bishop Hill ...