The Nonsuch Dulcimer Club is pleased to invite you to join us in person at our Annual Weekend & AGM 2026, which will be held at Moreton Hall School, near Oswestry. It has good access by road and rail.
We are offering a full 3-day weekend again this year, with an option for just 2 days. Our tutors this year are:
* Ruth Smith (USA) Hammered Dulcimer
* Heidi Muller (USA) Mountain Dulcimer
* Carmen Amrein (Germany) Hammered Dulcimer
* Kara Barnard (USA) Mountain Dulcimer
We are excited to offer our Spring workshop and concert days with with three of our 2026 Annual Weekend tutors – Carmen Amrein, Heidi Muller and Ruth Smith.
Over two consecutive weekends the days offer a chance to take classes online with a tutor who is coming in person this October to our annual weekend. If you can't attend in October or just want a sneak preview of their classes and approach, this event gives you the perfect opportunity.
The cost is £20 per workshop and there are two levels of workshop on offer.
In addition there are two evening concerts, open to all, whether or not you attend the workshops. We hope to see you there!
These sessions are for new players to get you started. The recordings of the first year or so of beginner sessions, which run for about an hour and include a mixture of technique and tunes played slowly are available to anyone on the mailing list. Contact Shirley Warbrick to join in and for the link to past sessions.
Next session:
Saturday 28th February 16:00
The next Southern Nonsuch meeting at Wellow, near Romsey in Hampshire will be on Sunday 15th March, from 1.00 till 5.00pm.
Future dates are:
Sunday 14th June
Sunday 2nd August
Sunday 11th October
This is our fifth year in the big city at the Copthorne Hotel on Newcastle’s happening quayside. As before there are plenty of chances to socialise and jam as well as venture out into this historic city!
We continue to develop the event and this year are delighted to welcome acclaimed folksinger, teacher and EFDSS Gold Badge holder Sandra Kerr as our North East guest speaker on Thursday, and multi instrumentalist and singer Tania Opland to run a range of hammered dulcimer workshops as part of the Wednesday programme.
As before we include a wide range of workshops, and plenty of opportunities to jam and socialise meanwhile we continue with that unique North Eastern flavour, this time with a bit of Irish thrown into the mix. Start learning Geordie now – gan canny!
We are excited to offer a combined hammered dulcimer workshop and concert day with with one of our 2025 Annual Weekend Hammered Dulcimer tutors – Steve Eulberg.
The day offers a chance to take classes online with a tutor who is coming in person this October to our annual weekend. If you can't attend in October or just want a sneak preview of his classes and his approach, this event gives you the perfect opportunity. And while the classes will provide a firm foundation to some of the things covered in October, they are not a pre-requisite and are designed to complement (not duplicate) our October weekend classes. The cost is £20 per workshop and there are two levels of workshop on offer.
In addition there is an evening concert, open to all, whether or not you attend the workshops. We hope to see you there!
We are excited to offer a combined mountain dulcimer workshop and concert day with with one of our 2025 Annual Weekend Mountain Dulcimer tutors – Joe Collins.
The day offers a chance to take classes online with a tutor who is coming in person this October to our annual weekend. If you can't attend in October or just want a sneak preview of his classes and his approach, this event gives you the perfect opportunity. And while the classes will provide a firm foundation to some of the things covered in October, they are not a pre-requisite and are designed to complement (not duplicate) our October weekend classes. The cost is £20 per workshop and there are two levels of workshop on offer.
In addition there is an evening concert, open to all, whether or not you attend the workshops. We hope to see you there!
The Nonsuch Dulcimer Club is pleased to invite you to join us in person at our Annual Weekend & AGM 2025, which will be held this year at the Malvern St. James School in Great Malvern. We are offering a full 3-day weekend again this year, with an option for just 2 days. Our tutors this year are:
* Steve Eulberg (USA) Hammered Dulcimer
* Joe Collins (USA) Mountain Dulcimer
* Elsa Bradley (UK) Hammered Dulcimer
* Dan Evans (UK) Mountain Dulcimer
* Amanda Lowe (UK) Hammered Dulcimer
This is our fourth year in the big city at the Copthorne Hotel on Newcastle’s happening quayside. As before there are plenty of chances to socialise and jam as well as venture out into this historic city!
We continue to develop the event and this year are delighted to welcome acclaimed folksinger and songwriter Jen Lowe as our North East guest speaker on Thursday, and Hammered Dulcimer player Damian Clarke to run a range of workshops as part of the Wednesday programme.
As before we include a wide range of workshops, and plenty of opportunities to jam and socialise meanwhile we continue with that unique North Eastern flavour. Start learning Geordie now – gan canny!
We started the Mountain Dulcimer Beginner Sessions with a group of complete beginners, but they aren't complete beginners any more. These session are for them, and for you if you have been playing for a while but find it difficult to keep up with the speed of other sessions. Sessions are recorded and the recordings made available to those who attended the session or are on the mailing list.
Future sessions (normally but not always on the 4th Thursday of the month at 7pm)
Wednesday 13 May 7.30pm [recently added]
Thursday 25 June 7pm
Thursday 23 July 7pm
