Website: https://melrosedulcimers.org/lauriealsobrook/ After a full career in elementary education, Laurie Alsobrook turned her attention to sharing the joy of playing the dulcimer at festivals, workshops, and retreats from Vermont to Florida. What a perfect blending of her two passions – working with learners and playing the dulcimer! In the world of online instruction, Laurie taught at (more…)
My lifelong musical journey through folk, Irish traditional, bluegrass and old time, began when I bought my first guitar in Londonderry in 1965. After retiring from a career in civil engineering in 2009, I volunteered as Treasurer with BelfastTrad and embarked on a nine-month project building a guitar at Lagan Lutherie School. Meantime, mandolin and (more…)
In this 3rd edition of the Audio Supplement, hosted by Ken Hudson of Roving Folk, we have an assortment of tracks which we hope you will find to be of interest – including contributions from Nonsuch members. Within the newsletter, you will find music to play from – and in this audio supplement, you will hear how it can sound – Music & songs from Jim Couza; Howie Mitchell; Damian Clark; Dan Evans; The Corries; Billy Cooper; Billy Bennington; Kattywompus String Band.
Results of the AGM 2020 voting. Our trustees Sally Whytehead, Hilary Davies and Sandra Hudson were unanimously elected, and our reports and accounts were accepted.
Mountain Dulcimer Tutor Duncan Gibbs is a consummate musician, who has played keyboards in progressive rock and blues bands for 40 years – about the same length of time he has been in thrall to the mountain dulcimer. He now combines these interests playing acoustic and electric dulcimers at workshops and festivals. Duncan also creates (more…)
Mountain Dulcimer Tutor Geoff Black is a leading UK dulcimer performer, teacher, workshop leader and collector who runs his own specialist dulcimer business, Revels Music – also an important online resource for dulcimer players across the world. Geoff has taught and performed a wide variety of modern acoustic dulcimer styles at festivals across the UK (more…)
2013 National Hammered Dulcimer Champion, Katie Moritz is a musician and teacher hailing from the Chicagoland area in Northern Illinois. She’s been playing music ever since she could remember, starting piano as a very small child and playing the tuba through school. Her taste in music is geared towards more eclectic sounds and it wasn’t till she (more…)
Don Pedi has been playing the dulcimer since 1968. Self taught, he developed a timeless method of playing mountain musicon the dulcimer that includes all the notes and rhythms of the best old-time fiddlers. Don lives with his wife Jean, on a small farm in the mountains of Madison County in Western North Carolina. The (more…)
24th – 25th Oct 2020.
Booked tutors are:
Don Pedi (USA) and Geoff Reeve-Black & Duncan Gibbs (UK) – Mountain Dulcimer
Mark Alan Wade (USA) and Katie Moritz (USA) – Hammered Dulcimer
Full details and a booking form will be added to this site soon.
For anyone who enjoys the melodious sound of dulcimers – both hammered and mountain style – Roving Folk, on Phoenix Radio in Halifax, West Yorkshire – in association with the Nonsuch Dulcimer Club – brings you the 2nd edition of the Nonsuch Newsletter Audio Supplement, giving our newsletter an added dimension.
