This information has now been updated for
Dulci-More Festival 16 in 2010. A couple of minor changes are still possible.
Dulci-More Festival 16
Concert, Mini-Concert, Workshop Presenters & Vendors
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Updated
April 1,
2010
Ann
& Phil Case
Ann and Phil Case have been singing and
playing music together since 1990. They specialize in singing old-time
Appalachian duets, old-fashioned parlor songs, and Depression-era tunes as well
as performing old-time instrumental duets. Ann sings with a rare natural
sweetness and plays back-up guitar and fiddle. Phil plays guitar, clawhammer banjo, mandolin, and harmonica, and provides
harmony vocals. Their sound draws upon the influences of the Carter Family and
their contemporaries, early country blues, ragtime, and traditional ballad
singing.
Their first CD, The Springtime of Life, was released in 1996 on their own
Dry Run Recordings label. Their second CD, Never
Grow Old, was released in 1999. Their third CD, Why Should We Be Lonely?, was released in 2003. Their fourth
and latest CD, The Old Step-Stone,
was released in 2007. These recordings have all received enthusiastic support
from public radio programmers across the U.S. and
overseas. The favorable reviews they have received in magazines such as Bluegrass Unlimited, Dirty Linen, Tradition, and Sing
Out! have earned them a listing in the MusicHound Folk buyer's guide, as well as a
feature article in the Summer 2004 issue of The
Old-Time Herald. Together, Ann and Phil Case continue to bring
reverence, freshness, and vitality to some fine old songs.
Ann and Phil are from Germantown, OH. They performed and gave
workshops at Dulci-More Festivals 3, 4, 5, & 15.
Doofus
Doofus includes Neal
& Coleen Walters from Greencastle, PA and John & Heidi Cerrigione from
Ellington, CT. They were with us for Dulci-More Festivals 7 & 11.
For over 20 years, Neal played with the Mill Run Dulcimer Band and
recorded eight albums with them. Coleen is a talented
fabric artist. Neal provides the strong vocal lead of the group while playing
guitar, mountain dulcimer, banjo, mandolin, or autoharp. Coleen
sings a low harmony and plays bass or percussion (rhythm egg or limberjack). Neal and Coleen also
play as a duo at festivals and workshops across the country.
John and Heidi also perform as a duo and as part of Jerimoth
Hill, along with Aubrey Atwater and Elwood Donnelly. John plays guitar, banjo,
mandolin, or acoustic bass for the group while Heidi plays autoharp, hammered
dulcimer, or mountain dulcimer. Both sing vocal harmony. Heidi teaches autoharp
and hammered dulcimer and John teaches clawhammer
banjo.
In 1996, Neal & Heidi collaborated to produce a
repertoire book of 30 Old Time Songs/Tunes
for Mountain Dulcimer and Autoharp. A companion tape is also available. This
has recently been updated with the audio files and musical notation in PDF format
now all contained on one "enhanced" CD. Doofus
recorded their first CD called What Did We Leave Behind?
in 1998 followed by Handful of Songs
in December, 2000. Relatively Serious
was released in July, 2002 and Stream of Time
in June, 2006. Four "Occasionals"
have been published with more music for mountain dulcimer and autoharp. Both
John and Heidi and Neal and Coleen have recorded duet
albums as well.
All four doofs have years of
experience teaching and playing with other groups, as well as writing and editing
books and articles about folk music, including their specialty - old time
music. Neal co-edited The Music Hound
Essential Album Guide to Folk Music, published by Visible Ink Press,
for which Heidi was a contributing writer. Both Neal and Heidi also contributed
to Music Hound World, the
essential album guide to World Music.
Stephen
Humphries
Stephen Humphries, 2007
National Hammered Dulcimer Champion, is quickly becoming one of America’s premier hammered dulcimer soloists and clinicians.
Stephen recently completed his time as a student at Presbyterian College in Clinton, South Carolina. There he earned his Bachelor of Arts in Music with an
emphasis in Percussion studies. With this education, as well as experience in a
variety of performance settings and festivals, Stephen brings a solid
percussive, classical, and contemporary approach to the hammered dulcimer.
Currently, Stephen is pursuing a Masters Degree in Music Education at Lee University in Cleveland, TN.
At present, Stephen has
released four recordings: By the Pond, Landrum &
Humphries (with guest artist Dan
Landrum), Let Earth
Receive Her King, and Hosegrass.
His recordings have been featured in multiple issues
of Dulcimer Players
News, and his transcriptions and
articles have been featured on Mel Bay’s DulcimerSessions.com.
Stephen is from South Carolina and currently lives in Chattanooga, TN. This is his first Dulci-More Festival.
Sally
Rogers
Sally
Rogers performs
traditional, contemporary, and original ballads and song, interwoven with
stories taken from her life as a performer, a wife, and a mother. Throughout
her concerts, she accompanies herself on guitar, banjo, and Appalachian
dulcimer, or performs without accompaniment in a voice that needs no further
enhancement. Reviewers have described her voice in superlatives ranging from
“remarkable” to "mesmerizing.” As one critic summarized, “...it's really
next to impossible to do justice to a voice of that quality.” Much of the
material performed by Sally includes compositions of her own, many of which are
considered classics of the folk and popular genre.
Sally has released
thirteen albums, not including several collaborative projects with other
artists. Her second album, In the
Circle of the Sun, received the Best Folk Album of 1982 award from the
National Association of Independent Record Distributors (NAIRD). Her 1987
album, Closing the Distance,
recorded with fellow singer/songwriter Claudia Schmidt, was voted by many
public radio stations throughout the country as among the ten most popular
albums of the year. Sally reached a new audience with her first children's
recording, Peace by Peace, in
the spring of 1988. As one of the first albums to introduce children to the
concept of peace on a day to day basis, Peace
by Peace received wide critical and popular acclaim. Sally's second
children's album, Piggyback Planet:
Songs for a Whole Earth (Round River Records), featuring environmental
songs for children, received the 1990 Parents’ Choice Gold Award for Audio
Recording. Sally's latest recording, What
Can One Little Person Do? (Round River Records), offers empowerment to
young people, teaching them that each and every one of them is important as an
individual. That recording won the 1993 NAIRD Award for Best Children's
Recording and yet another Parents' Choice Gold Award. Soon afterwards, Sally
released a compilation of traditional and original lullabies for toddlers and
infants called At Quiet O’Clock (Round River Records). Sporting a cover by
world-famous children's illustrator, Eric Carle, this recording too has
received its share of awards including the NAIRD Award for Best Children's
Recording of 1994.
1994 saw the release of a children's
video produced by Academy Award-winning cinematographer George Pickow. The same year also saw work begin on illustration
for Roger’s first children's book, Over in the Endangered Meadow,
published by EP Dutton of New York
(the people who brought us Winnie the Pooh). 1995 saw
the release of Sally's long-awaited recording for adult audiences, We'll Pass Them On (Red House
Records). On this recording, Sally performs half original
material and half traditional ballads and songs.
Sally
Rogers is from Pomfret Center,
CT. This is her first Dulci-More Festival.
Timothy
Seaman
Acoustic soloist Timothy Seaman brings together an eclectic blend of
music styles unlike any other: sometimes the deep voice of his four-octave
extended-range hammered dulcimer takes on the heart of a Chopin ballade, and at
other times the festivity of an old-time mountain dance or a glistening
contemporary interpretation of a whitewater canoe ride or a highland hike among
fir trees. His bamboo or silver flute improvisations and passionate folk renditions
leave the air glowing with meaning --- and then the bowed psaltery or the
crafted vocal carries one’s mood into yet another exploration.
A specialist in Virginia themes, parks, nature, Celtic roots, and folk
hymns, Timothy has since, 1978, produced or co-produced fifteen recordings
totaling 88,000 copies, including the well-received Here on This Ridge, for Shenandoah National
Park; Cleansing Fountain, Appalachian folk hymn
interpretations for the Blue Ridge Parkway; Celebration of
Centuries, for his home town Williamsburg’s tri-centennial; Sycamore Rapids, featuring the hammered
dulcimer in “adventures out among the trees of Virginia’s Parks and Forests;” Jamestown: On the Edge of a Vast
Continent, for the 2007 commemoration; and Virginia Wildlife, for the Department of
Game and Inland Fisheries. Although many tracks on these CDs are full ensemble
arrangements (often with all instruments played by Seaman himself), they carry
the same variety and flow of thought that characterize his solo presence.
At a Seaman concert, expect to be exhilarated, amused, awed, surprised,
personally involved (maybe singing a chorus or playing along on Irish bodhran or Thai frog), and enriched by real substance. Come
and find traditional, newly composed, and Baroque music that reviewers have
referred to as “soul-to-soul” and “highly lyrical.”
This is Timothy’s first
time at a Dulci-More Festival. He comes from Williamsburg, VA.
Susan Trump
Susan Trump is a singer whose gentle
voice and story songs you won’t forget. For years, she has been winning fans
with her singing, her song writing prowess and her outstanding instrumental
skill on mountain dulcimer, guitar, and banjo. Her audiences use phrases like
“the voice of an angel, singing songs that go straight to the heart.” She has
released four best-selling solo recordings, What
the Hill People Say, Tree of
Life, and Live at Caffe Lena which captures the excitement of one of
her “sell- out” weekend performances. Her newest CD, Songs of Faith and Hope, a collection of inspirational,
uplifting songs for everyone is being touted as her best ever!
Susan has produced two volumes of the
widely acclaimed CD Masters of the
Mountain Dulcimer featuring the finest players in the country. Susan
has been featured in three public television specials, An Adirondack Christmas Carol, Christmas in the Adirondacks, and People Near Here. Riffs
Magazine voted her an “all time favorite show” at the famed Caffe Lena, the longest running coffee house in the country,
located in Saratoga Springs, New York.
Susan is a much sought after
instructor and performer whose work has included concerts and festivals in
North Carolina, Tennessee, Ohio, Texas, California, Kentucky, Missouri,
Arkansas, Connecticut as well as her home state of New York. She has won awards
in both banjo and mountain dulcimer competitions. Her magic stems from her
ability to link the pastoral, tranquil images of traditional rural America to our
contemporary life. Her spontaneous sense of humor always adds a fresh touch to
her performances.
Leading youth groups to work with
disabled miners in West Virginia
stimulated Susan’s interest in traditional folk culture. Since then she has
conducted extensive studies of Appalachian life, arts, music, and instrument
makers. Her love of Anglo-American music has taken her from the mountains of Southern
Appalachia and the Adirondacks to the
British Isles, where she has collected
and performed traditional music.
Susan also enjoys sharing her music
with school children. She has been associated with the
New York Foundation for the Arts since 1986, and has been awarded several “Meet
the Composer” grants for song writing from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Throughout her career she has shared her music with thousands of school
children and their families.
Susan is from Newtonville, New York. She
has performed twice for the Dulci-More Concert Series, and this is her first
Dulci-More Festival (although she almost made it to last year’s festival).
Dulci-More Festival for Schools also helped sponsor her as Artist in Residence
at East Palestine Elementary School.
Bill
Schilling
Bill Schilling is a
high-energy folk-style singer and multi-instrumentalist who believes that this type
of music should be inclusive. He is the founder and leader of Dulci-More and
the Dulci-More Festival and a member of many other groups, which share or
support the music. At Dulci-More Festivals, he has performed solo and as Bill
Schilling with Carol Ellis; Bill
Schilling, Linda Sigismondi, and Marge Diamond;
Bill Schilling &
Folks; Threes Co.; Whistler's Lane; and presented his Schilling's Slides,
Songs, & Stories program. Bill has put together the music that Dulci-More
uses and has it available in several volumes and formats: Dulci-More
Public Domain Songbooks -- Volumes 1, 2, 3, Christmas Volume (all with
numbers for lap dulcimer melody strings as well as music, chords, and lyrics),
Autoharp Volume (with melody chord numbers in place of the dulcimer
numbers), General Volume (with
DAA Numbers) which is the full size version of the four smaller
volumes plus much more material, Lyrics
with Chords for those who prefer not to have the written music, but want to
play along, and Lyrics Only for those
who just want to sing along. The full size version is over 300 pages with over
300 songs. Bill has released a CD, Songs from Canal Days,
with Linda Sigismondi and continues to threaten to release more recordings upon
the world. Since 2005 with Dulci-More members Marcy and Dale Tudor, he has been
the Music Coordinator and a regular instructor for Folk
Music at Weatherbury Farm, the Tudor’s award winning farm vacation
bed and breakfast in Avella, PA. Bill has also been an
instructor at John C. Campbell Folk School.
Dulci-More
Dulci-More: Folk & Traditional Musicians is a club
that started in January 1993, at the First United
Methodist Church of Salem. The purposes of the club are to have
fun with folk-style music and to share that music with others. The club meets
at 7:00 pm on the first
Tuesday and Third Tuesday (note: it was the third Wednesday until January,
2000) of each month just off the sanctuary in the Unity Classroom of the First United
Methodist Church of Salem, 244 South Broadway, Salem, OH 44460.
All levels of acoustic instrumentalists and singers are always welcome at the
meetings to jam, to learn, to listen, or to perform. Call ahead if you are
coming from far away since performances or special meetings may
be scheduled a few times a year on regular meeting nights.
Celtic Noise
Celtic Noise includes: Ian Cormack from Grove City on hammered dulcimer; Roz
Wilson from Massillon on guitar and hammered dulcimer; Alma Houston from Canton on percussion; Ginger Ackley (a transplanted Texan
recently) from Canton on autoharp and whistles; and Linda Gardner from West Lafayette on harp and whistles. Most also add vocals to the mix.
Ian presented workshops at Dulci-More Festival 15 while Roz
and Alma have presented workshops at many Dulci-More Festivals on their own and
as part of Stringed Fantasy. After Ian and Roz met
online at EverythingDulcimer.com, Alma got involved through her connection with Roz, the group got a name in a phone conversation with Bill Schilling about being part of this festival, and then Ginger and
Linda joined at the Canton Folk Song Society’s Winter Folk Song Festival XII.
Mountain Marge Diamond
Marge Diamond began playing Mountain
Dulcimer in the mid eighties with virtually no music background but tons of
enthusiasm. Through attending Dulcimer workshops and getting in touch with the
playing styles of established dulcimer players from all over the country, she
found the greatest tool for making friends and having a great time. That is
what she teaches others to do. Her early efforts emphasized the playing of
fiddle tunes and taking part in a square dance band, The Bentwood Rockers. She then moved on to playing songs that
required a little more arranging. Currently Marge plays with The Oberlin Dulcimer Group and Dulci-More.
Marge has performed and taught Dulcimer workshops since 1987. She has been on
hand teaching and performing at all of the Dulci-More festivals, at the past
fifteen Fort New Salem Festivals, at several of the Kent State Folk Festivals
and has been on hand for some of the COFF festivals. Since retirement in 2003
Marge has been pursuing her love of making art. With her business, Winsome Expressions, she makes
airbrushed music themed shirts, "Ultimate Totes", and other items for
sale. Marge has one recording, Beyond Cabbage. which is now
available on CD.
Guy George
Guy George is a rhythmic, melodic
hammered dulcimer player with a definite jazz influence to his playing style.
He also plays saxophones, flute, whistle, steel drum, and keyboard. His wife,
Sharrie, performs and records with him on the guitar. Their CD is Dream Castle. Guy
also is included on Maddie MacNeil's
CD, As Time Goes By. Guy and Sharrie joined us from their home in
Concord, Ohio for
Dulci-More Festival 7. Demetrius Steinmetz performed along with Guy and Sharrie
at Dulci-More Festival 8. At Dulci-More Festival 10, we had Guy George with
Tull Glazener. Since then, Guy and Tull have performed together at several
festivals. Guy and Sharrie along with Sue Rust joined us for Dulci-More
Festival 11, Guy and Sharrie were back for Dulci-More Festival 12 & 15, and
Guy was on his own for Dulci-More Festivals 13 & 14.
Janet Harriman
Janet Harriman is a
Dulci-More member who moved from Alliance, OH to North Chili, NY a few years ago. On her own as a
Dulci-More member and as a member of Humours ’n Hammers, she has been presenting hammered dulcimer
workshops at Dulci-More Festivals for several years. Beyond the hammered
dulcimer, she has also regularly played flute with Dulci-More and with Humours ’n Hammers.
The Hired
Hands
The Hired Hands are very local group
for our festival (living about a mile from the festival site) and have attended
some workshops at the festival in the past as well as a couple of Dulci-More
meetings over the years. Their preference is for Scottish music (with some
Irish and other Celtic music mixed in). Dulci-More Festival 15 was the first
time that some of the group members gave workshops at a festival. They are
returning for Dulci-More Festival 16 after many who heard them last year asked
us to make sure to bring them back. These sisters from the Miller family
include:
Allison
(age 24) began to study music at age three at Mt. Union College studying Suzuki piano under Carol Wunderle and continued her studies under Mrs. Mary Louis
Foster for the next 11 years. She began to play the folk/lever harp at age 14
and began the tradition of attending the Ohio Scottish Arts School in Oberlin, Ohio, for harp instruction. After
completing an undergraduate degree in the US, Allison had the opportunity to
pursue post-graduate studies at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow, Scotland in Clarsarch
(Scottish small harp) and Scot’s Song. She has studied under masters of
Scottish and Irish harp, including Sue Richards, Ann Heymann,
Sharon Knowles, Patsy Seddon, Savourna
Stevenson, Corinna Hewatt, Uschi Laar, and Wendy Stewart.
Allison has taught privately in both the US and Scotland and co-taught a course at the 2007
Edinburgh International Harp Festival. She has appeared in concert at multiple
venues in the States and as far as Glasgow and the Isle of Skye. She has formed a duo with her
sister, Sairey, The
Hired Hands, and they released their first CD, Something,
last spring.
Sairey (age 18) began her musical career with ten years of Suzuki
piano under Mrs. Mary Louis Foster, which trained her ear and allowed her to
make a smooth transition to the folk/lever harp at age 8.
She has studied harp at the Ohio Scottish Arts School in Oberlin, Ohio, for the past six
summers and at the 2007 Edinburgh International Harp Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland. She has had the privilege to study
under such diverse musicians as Sue Richards, Ann Heymann,
and Sharon Knowles of the US, Wendy Stewart, Catriona
McKay, Corinna Hewatt, and
William Jackson of Scotland, and Robert Huw Bowen of
Wales. She has competed extensively and was awarded
first place in the master’s division at the National Scottish Harp Competition
in 2008. She plays a Steen harp made by Steve Green of West Virginia. She has just completed her freshman year of college at Christendom College in Front Royal, Virginia.
Laura
(age 15) has studied under the Suzuki method for piano under Mrs. Mary Louis
Foster since age six. She branched into Suzuki violin for a year until
attending the Ohio Scottish Arts School in 2005 and now plays exclusively
Scottish and Irish fiddle. Since 2005, she has studied under fiddle masters
Carl MacKenzie of Cape Breton, Anna Wendy Stevenson
of Scotland, Mike Vaas of Scotland, and Ed Pearlman
of Vermont, US. She has competed at both the Ohio Scottish Games and the
Ligonier Highland Games in Ligonier, PA. Laura plays on her sisters’ CD The Hired Hands:
Something and has played at local venues including nursing homes,
festivals, and at church.
Micah
(age 14) has also studied the Suzuki piano method under Mrs. Mary Louis Foster
for the past seven years and picked up the Anglo concertina in 2005. She has
taught herself this instrument, with the aid of listening to recordings of
Irish and Scottish traditional bands. She appears on several tracks on the CD The
Hired Hands: Something with her sisters and has competed in an Ensemble
division for the past two years at the Ligonier Highland Games in Ligonier, PA
and been awarded first place. She also plays at local nursing homes and
festivals.
Maggie
(age 13) will join her sisters this year playing whistles.
Jesse Isley
Jesse
Isley is from Columbia, SC. He will be traveling with Stephen Humphries to his
first Dulci-More Festival, and it wouldn’t surprise us
if they share some set time with each other. He will be sharing his talents as
a guitarist and as a singer/songwriter with us. The music of Jesse Isley is honest. Every song is derived
from personal accounts. The intent is to be heartfelt and not to take on a
formula - not to take on something fake. The music
that accompanies these stories reflects influences of artists greater than himself. From Hendrix to Debussy, Johnny Cash to Death Cab.
These and other techniques acquired while completing his degree in Music play a
role in the sounds you hear come from his songs. His live shows are always
exciting and evoke the mood of calm and storm in the same performance. He has
also shared the stage with other popular artists such as Will Hoge and the Avett Brothers on
more than one occasion.
Gary
& Toni Sager
Gary
& Toni Sager
are from Waverly, Ohio. They performed and did workshops for us at Dulci-More
Festivals 12-15, as well as vending with Prussia Valley Dulcimers Acoustic
Music Shop and are back again to do all of those things for Dulci-More Festival
16. Gary became interested in the Mountain Dulcimer in 1991
after seeing David Schnaufer's "Fischer's
Hornpipe" video on CMT. He built a dulcimer in late 1991, then began building
seriously in 1992 and has been building and playing since that time. Gary has
taught playing workshops at Fort New Salem Dulcimer Festival, Dulcimer Doin's in Dayton, Ohio, Buckeye Dulcimer Festival in
Ashley, Ohio, The Great River Road Dulcimer Festival in Grafton, IL, Yellowbanks Dulcimer Festival in Owensboro, KY, Chestnut
Ridge Dulcimer Festival in Greensburg, PA and several other local festivals.
Gary and Toni have done occasional performances at some of these festivals. Gary can be heard on Doug Felt's A Little of This & A Little of That
CD.
Toni has been playing the
autoharp for about seven years, after getting an Oscar Schmidt as a Christmas
present. She had seen a lady playing one at the Fraley
Mountain Music Festival at Carter Caves State Resort in Ky. and fell in love with the instrument. Toni mostly
plays chord style as she plays along with husband Gary, who plays the mountain
dulcimer. She has taught beginner workshops at several regional festivals. She
really enjoys getting folks started on the autoharp. Toni and Gary have done
occasional performances at several dulcimer festivals. Their recently released
recording of instrumentals, Rats in
the Fence Corner, features them with appearances by Doug Felt and Stephen Seifert.
Linda
Sigismondi
Linda Sigismondi is the leader of the
Banks of the Ohio Dulcimer Club in Gallipolis and director of the Fort New
Salem Dulcimer Festival. She has five mountain dulcimer books: Appalachian
Ballads & Songs, Songs from Canal Days, Christmas
Songs, Celtic Tunes, and Old Time and Fiddle Tunes.
Linda has released a recording, Songs from Canal Days, with Bill
Schilling and has companion recordings for her
other books. She also sings, plays guitar, Native American flute, Kratz zither, and MacArthur harp,
and writes songs. Linda has taught workshops and performed at many folk music
festivals in West Virginia, Ohio, and New York. Linda
has played at Fort New Salem, West Virginia, for the Harvest and Christmas
Festivals for many years. She is a Dulci-More member, attending a few
activities a year even though she lives in Gallipolis. She has won many
competitions at Roscoe Village Dulcimer Days and other competitions. Linda has
been part of all of our Dulci-More Festivals.
Alice &
Earl Whitehill
Alice Whitehill is a Dulci-More member
from Hookstown, PA. She has been a part of
all Dulci-More Festivals. Alice sings
and plays dulcimers, autoharps, guitars, and more. She is
often joined in performance by Earl Whitehill (her husband), Rachel Huff (her
daughter), Deb or Kristi Boyd, or others. She also leads the Dulcimer
Players of the Upper Ohio Valley. She
and Earl have won a variety of competitions at Roscoe Village Dulcimer Days. Alice sells
musical instruments and supplies as Stitches & Strings and is a vendor at
this Dulci-More Festival.
Louise
Ziegler
Louise
Ziegler is from Ashley. She has been the director of the Buckeye Dulcimer Festival held at Recreation
Unlimited for all 19 years. She has been
playing the mountain dulcimer since the early 80s. She is a well-known workshop
leader and takes her dulcimer to all kinds of people. This is her first
Dulci-More Festival.
Additional Workshops by Dulci-More
Members, Festival Vendors
Performers & Performance Order Subject to Change as
Needed
Festival Vendors
Alice Whitehill (Stitches & Strings)
Alice Ann Whitehill will be back again
for Dulci-More Festival 16 with stock from Stitches and Strings. Alice
expects to have a variety of instructional, song, and tune books for different
instruments. She will also have accessories including strings, stands,
electronic tuners and tuning clips, picks, and more. Alice also
has several instruments in the shop including lap dulcimers and Oscar Schmidt
guitars and autoharps. Alice is a
Dulci-More member and has been a part of all of our Dulci-More Festivals. Alice has
regularly contributed prizes for our Name That Old Time (or Other) Tune Contest
and will do so again this year.
Michael C. Allen (~Cloud Nine~ Musical
Instruments)
Michael
C. Allen has been creating
professional quality hammered dulcimers and other instruments since 1977. For
the past several years Michael has been one of only
three dulcimer makers selected to create an instrument as a prize in the
National Hammered Dulcimer Championship held in Winfield, Kansas each September. 2007 marked
the 30th Anniversary of ∼Cloud
Nine∼ Musical Instruments!
∼Cloud Nine∼ Musical Instruments is located at 5701 Stover Road,
Ostrander, Ohio 43061 and may be reached at info@cloudninemusical.com
or (740) 666-4253.
Michael was with us for
Dulci-More Festival 9 when he played fiddle for the Friday evening square dance
with Kendra Ward and Bob
Bence while his wife,
Pamela Spence Allen called the dance.
Guy George
Guy George, in addition to performing
this year, will also be a vendor with products like Rick Thum hammered
dulcimers, Chieftan pennywhistles, mountain
dulcimers, Fluke ukuleles, Steel Drums, some books and CDs, and more. Guy has
performed at five previous Dulci-More Festivals and started vending with us at
Dulci-More Festival 10.
Paul
A. Kerns
Paul Kerns is from Logan. This
will be his first Dulci-More Festival. He says, “In 1981, a friend asked me to
make her a dulcimer, and being a woodworker, I thought that was something I
could do. I was not prepared for my reaction when I
put strings on this thing and sound came out of it. I was
hooked. I built dulcimers for friends and family for over twenty years,
and when I retired two years ago, dulcimers became my new line of work.”
Lynn
McLeish
Lynn will
have a selection of home made and other musical accessories available for
festival attendees. This is her second time vending at a festival, but she was
in charge of our Dulci-More Festival kitchen for Festivals 13 & 14 and is
once again a key part of the planning and working group for this year’s
festival.
Mountz Gallery
Lois and Ken Mountz operated a framing
gallery and art store in downtown Salem for
many years. They moved it from downtown Salem to
their home outside of Salem during
2008. A few years ago they added musical instruments
and accessories to their stock, and they say that Mountz Gallery is “where art
and music have come together.” They will be vending with us for the seventh
year in a row. They are members of Dulci-More, and Lois is a member of Humours ’n’ Hammers. Mountz Gallery is located at 14996 Garfield Road, Salem OH 44460; 330-537-2143.
Prussia Valley Dulcimers Acoustic Music
Shop
Gary and Toni Sager were with us for
the first time at Dulci-More Festival 12 and this will be their fourth year
with us. They have been vending at festivals around the country for several
years with the Prussia Valley Dulcimers that Gary makes and many other
products. After years of doing that, they also opened their Prussia Valley
Dulcimers Acoustic Music Shop in Waverly, Ohio a
couple of years ago with a full stock of folk instruments, books, recordings,
and accessories. The shop is located at 122 North Market Street, Waverly, OH 45690; 740-941-1271.
Stapleton Woodcrafts
Steve Stapleton has
been handcrafting his own musical instruments since 2005 and selling them at
festivals over the past couple of years. He specializes in mountain dulcimers,
bowed psalteries, plucked psalteries, and thumb pianos. Steve is from Columbus. His
instruments can be seen on his web site, and he can be
contacted at 614-457-9771. This
will be his fourth time at a Dulci-More Festival.
Timbre Hill Dulcimers
Paul Conrad is from Holmes County, Ohio. He
started building mountain dulcimers for a while in the mid 70s, and he returned
to building them in 2005. He mixes woods in visually stimulating patterns on
some of his dulcimers to give them a unique look. He has taken his dulcimers to
several festivals. This is Paul’s third time at a Dulci-More Festival.
Winsome Expressions
Marge Diamond will be back with
Winsome Expressions including airbrushed music themed shirts and other items
for sale. Look for her latest "Ultimate Totes" with music themes.
Marge is based in Elyria and
can be reached at mtmarge7@windstream.net.
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Bill
Schilling
984 Homewood Avenue
Salem, Ohio 44460-3816
330-332-4420
bill@billschilling.org
bill@dulcimore.org
