MOUNT AIRY -- As a child, Happy Allison watched his grandfather make and restore lap dulcimers. As a teenager, he helped the older man build a couple of guitars. Now, at 50, Allison plays the hammered ...

Some of you are born musicians. Some of us are born to be your audience. Although I tooted the trumpet in my high school band, I was not “gifted.” My playing and performing days were numbered. No ...

TAHLEQUAH -- Every year in May, the folks in Coshocton, Ohio, hold their "Dulcimer Days" celebration, dedicated to the stringed instrument best known for its use in Appalachian folk music. Strangely ...

In 1999, two years before the Appalachian Mountain Lap Dulcimer was declared the state instrument of Kentucky, Merwyn Jackson formed the Madison Dulcimers in Richmond. That was 25 years ago, a ...

CHARLESTON - Martha Turley of Ona won the lap dulcimer contest at last weekend's 59th annual Vandalia Gathering at the Capitol Complex. The festival celebrates Appalachian music and culture with ...

Apr. 25—Fairmont State University's Frank and Jane Gabor West Virginia Folklife Center will host the Wartz 'n All Dulcimer Jam on Saturday, May 4 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Lap dulcimer players, as well ...

This weekend’s gathering of Tamarack’s premier instrument makers, music writers and performers sent the sounds of guitars, hammered dulcimers, lap dulcimers, bowed psalteries, flutes, harps, drums and ...

Jim Phillips has a passion for creating beautiful wood projects. He was born to Carl and Beatrice Phillips in Richlands, Virginia, in the heart of Appalachian coal country. His parents moved to the ...

Sam Edelston is a man on a mission. The Greenwich musician wants to make dulcimers as popular to the world as guitars, trumpets, pianos, harps, you name it. Dulcimers? ... Yes, dulcimers. Edelston ...