This information has now been updated for
Dulci-More Festival 17 in 2011. A couple of minor changes are still possible.
Dulci-More Festival 17
Concert, Mini-Concert, Workshop
Presenters & Vendors
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Online Registration Page
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offline around noon on Wednesday,
May 25 to allow final preregistration information to
be coordinated by the registrar)
Updated May 13, 2011
(Some Presenters Will Only Be at the Festival One Day As
Indicated in the Schedule)
Concert,
Mini-Concert, & Workshop Presenters
Doug Berch
Doug is from Okemos, MI. This is his first Dulci-More Festival.
Doug
says:
I have
been performing and teaching since the mid 1970′s. During the 1980′s I toured throughout the United States and performed at
many folk festivals, dulcimer festivals, and concert venues. I recorded two
records (Yes, records, the big round flat black vinyl things) for Kicking Mule
Records.
In 1983 I took first place in both the National Hammered
Dulcimer Championship and the National Mountain Dulcimer Championship in Winfield, Kansas.
In the
early 1990′s I recorded two cassettes (more antiquated technology, is
there a theme here?) with one featuring a tune I composed on hammered dulcimer
called “Ocean of Wisdom” that has been
recorded by several other well known hammered dulcimer
players. My work appears on dozens of albums and soundtracks as a support
musician.
I
performed, recorded, and toured with the Celtic ensemble Colcannon for 10
years. I taught at The Swallow Hill School of Music in Denver, Colorado for 10 years.
I made
dulcimers and other instruments during the 1970s and 80s. I had stopped making
instruments so that I could focus primarily on performing and teaching but I
always missed lutherie. I am happy to be making
instruments again.
I took
a long break from performing and making instruments full time. During this time I was pursuing other interests. I also worked at
Elderly Instruments in Lansing, Michigan for about 12
years.
Musically
I am inspired by the traditional music of the world,
the rock and roll I grew up with, and anything else that comes along
Alex Bevan
Alex Bevan has
been sharing his voice, guitar, music and stories with
audiences for more than thirty years. First known as the "Skinny Little
Boy" from Cleveland, Ohio who came to "Chase your
wimmin' and drink your beer", Alex has made a
name for himself through out the Northern Ohio music scene.
Drawing on his
deep skill set of imaginative and honest song writing combined with an agile,
improvisational wit that dovetail wonderfully with his flawless guitar
slinging, Alex never fails to delight and charm audiences no matter what the
venue.
His recordings
span the gamut from folk to folk rock and pop to children's educational music
and he has won a number of awards for his commercial efforts in radio and
television. Alex's creative works have also contributed to documentary film
scores.
With the release
of "Fall & Angels" Alex shows us a deeper side of the "Low
Tech Troubadour". You need to see him to believe him and hear him to know
him.
He is truly Ohio's "Great Lakes Bard".
Alex lives in Madison, OH. This is his first
Dulci-More Festival.
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
second Dulci-More Festival. He was with us for Dulci-More Festival 16 last
year. This year (as last year) he expects to share a lot of stage time at
Dulci-More Festival with Jesse Isley (a friend with
whom he has been making music since junior high school).
Jim Miller
Jim Miller has been playing and performing
traditional music for the past 40 years. An accomplished instrument builder and
teacher, he has taught workshops at numerous festivals as well as won many
awards for his musicianship. For twenty years, Jim was the owner of the Hampton
Music Shop, in Hampton, Tennessee, where he
handcrafted over 750 hammered dulcimers. He has played with Celtic, Bluegrass, Swing, Blues,
and Old Time bands, and has done session work on many
recordings. In addition to being an accomplished performer and workshop leader,
Jim also is an enthusiastic jam facilitator who likes to get everyone involved.
His "chord signing for the harmonically impared"
is legendary. He plays guitar, banjo, octave mandolin, bass, steel drum,
percussion, hammered and mountain dulcimers as well as his own off-the-wall
musical inventions, which are always entertaining. Jim holds a Masters degree
in Elementary Education with an endorsement in instrumental music. He teaches
4th grade at Cloudland Elementary School in Roan Mountain, Tennessee, where he leads
an after school traditional string band program. He also teaches dulcimer and
autoharp at East Tennessee State University in the Bluegrass, Old Time, and
Country Music Program.
Jim Miller is from Hampton, TN. This is his
second Dulci-More Festival. His previous appearance was at Dulci-More Festival
11. This time, he plans to have Cheri Miller, his wife, join him in
performance. They have recorded the CD Pretty Good Times together.
Stephen Seifert
Stephen
Seifert's teaching and playing has made him a favorite
with dulcimer players all over the country since 1991. In
that time, he's been a featured performer at hundreds of dulcimer festivals and
other music events including Kentucky Music Week in Bardstown, KY, Mountain
Dulcimer Week in Cullowhee, NC, the Augusta Heritage Center in Elkins, WV, the
John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, NC, the
Ozark Folk Center in Mountain View, AR, Stringalong
near Milwaukee, WI, the Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield, KS, and The Tono American Music Festival, in Tono,
Japan.
Stephen
has been a dulcimer soloist with the Nashville Chamber Orchestra, now know as Orchestra Nashville, since 1996 and is featured on
their Warner Classical recording of Connie Ellisor
and David Schnaufer's Blackberry Winter, a concerto
for mountain dulcimer and string orchestra. The piece continues to be in
regular rotation on many classical stations around the U.S. (The recording
album is titled "Conversations in Silence" and can be sampled and
purchased on iTunes.) Stephen most recently performed
this piece with the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra, the Tucson Symphony
Orchestra, and the Montpelier Chamber Orchestra.
Stephen
was Adjunct Instructor of Mountain Dulcimer with David Schnaufer
at Vanderbilt's Blair School of Music from 1997 to 2001. He also taught,
performed, and recorded with Mr. Schnaufer as a duo
throughout the country. Stephen has authored ten
books, four CDs, and 16 instructional videos.
This is Stephen’s
first time at a Dulci-More Festival, but he has been with us for our concert
and workshop series before. He comes from Nashville, TN.
Matt Watroba
What
would you call a person who is on a first name basis with almost all of the
major folk musicians in the North American continent, who has an astounding
grasp of the folk music genre both past and present, who manages to be a
husband, father, teacher, writer, and excellent folk music performer? The
answer, of course, is Matt Watroba.
Matt
brings a very special set of talents to the stage whenever he appears as a folk
musician. His excellent guitar playing, mellow voice, friendship with his
audience, and knowledge of his presentations is impressive. Add to that Matt’s
own special brand of humor and you are in for a most entertaining and
enlightening evening. You will feel his obvious love of folk music, both
traditional and contemporary--the writers and performers, the heroes and
villains. Matt sings songs of compassion, inner strength, humor, and every day
living. He sings songs that you will feel and remember for a long time. You
will love his music, you will love the journey that his music takes you on, and
you will love the place that his music takes you to.
His
love of folk music has led him to his position of "Folks Like Us" radio host, a position he held for over 20
years on WDET-FM. He was awarded "Best Overall Folk
Performer" by the Detroit Music Awards for the year 2000, and his long
list of credits include the prestigious Ann Arbor Folk Festival, the Detroit 300
celebration, The Ark, the Spirit of the Woods Festival, the New Jersey Folk
Weekend, Louisville’s Kentucky Music Weekend, and hundreds of school and
community presentations throughout the Great Lakes Region. He has shared
the stage with some of our greatest performers, including Pete Seeger, Tom Paxton, Ramblin’ Jack
Elliott, Arlo Guthrie, Shawn Colvin, Christine Lavin, Peter Yarrow, and Richard Thompson.
Matt
is also the host of the national radio program Sing Out! Radio Magazine, an
hour-long magazine format show featuring interviews as well as live and
recorded music. The program may be heard on many
public radio stations, on XM Satellite Radio in The Village, and it is streamed
online at FolkAlley.com.
Matt is from Hartland, MI. This is his first Dulci-More Festival.
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.
Mountain Marge Diamond
I, Marge Diamond began playing dulcimer
twenty five years ago. Without any musical background, but with tons of
enthusiasm, I passed through the beginner stage. Progress was slow and quite
painful at times, but persistence began to pay off. By attending dulcimer
workshops when ever possible and hanging out with other musicians I began to
pick up some technique, learned to keep a fairly good beat, and began making a
few fiddle tunes my own.
Learning to play was an amazing thing for me, but then there are the
fantastic people I have met along with the tunes. I just would never have believed
that adults could come together to share music and have so much fun. There is
nothing to compare. For twenty five years I have been doing this, and it still
feels new and fresh. I am still learning. There is love shared with the
learning of the music.
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
most of the 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 has occasionally been available on CD.
David Ferrard
David Ferrard is a
Scottish-American singer-songwriter and folk musician based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Born to a Scottish father and an
American mother, he was brought up on both sides of the Atlantic. David Ferrard is a veritable 'one-man
transatlantic session' (The Sunday Herald). He blends his own original
songwriting with traditional material from both sides of the Atlantic. His transatlantic roots can be clearly
traced in is music, whether singing his own compositions or interpreting a
traditional ballad or song by Robert Burns. His strong, catchy melodies and
commitment to social issues make his music both accessible and meaningful. David's songs tell stories about his and
others' lives, and are marked by a strong commitment
to social justice and peace.
David tours regularly
throughout the UK and further afield. He will be in
the last days of his first US tour when he
joins us for his first Dulci-More Festival.
Both
of David’s solo albums (Broken Sky,
2008; Across The
Troubled Wave, 2009) have been released to critical acclaim, including
Album Of The Week (BBC Radio Scotland, the Sunday
Herald, Celtic Music Radio).
David's
songwriting has been compared to Woody Guthrie &
Tom Paxton, and his sweet, crystal vocals to John Denver & James Taylor. An ability to get under the skin of
different characters and to convey these stories in song has won him songwriting
and performance competitions (Celtic Connections 2006, Burnsong
2007). His songs have been covered by artists such as Roy Bailey
and Sheena Wellington.
Guy & Sharrie 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, & 16, and Guy was on his own for Dulci-More Festivals 13 & 14.
Jan Hammond & Tom Conner
Jan Hammond is from Wadsworth, OH and this is her second time presenting at a Dulci-More Festival
(previously at Dulci-More Festival 13). She performs on several different
mountain dulcimer designs as well as being an accomplished composer, lyricist,
and vocalist. She now has four solo CD’s and a new tab book. Jan has numerous
first place awards from dulcimer competitions across the US. In
2005, she was a top five finalist at the national competition in Winfield, KS. She also
placed 1st at the Kentucky State Mountain Dulcimer Championship in 2005 and
2006. In June of 2008, she placed 1st at the Mid-Eastern Regional Competition
for an unprecedented fourth time. Jan placed 3rd at the National Mountain
Dulcimer Championship in Winfield, KS later that same year. Jan also teaches private lessons and is a
Certified Music Practitioner.
Tom
Conner has been playing guitar practically all his life starting in gradeschool. During college Tom
played professionally in various genres including rock & roll, country,
pops, and jazz. He has studied the classics for guitar and regularly uses
classical pieces in his performances He has released 6
solo CDs and one duet CD covering all the styles and stringed instruments he
plays including Renaissance lute. He is active performing around northeast Ohio and the Phoenix, Arizona areas. He has an
active partnership with the award winning mountain dulcimer player Jan Hammond and they perform
in Ohio. Tom is available for weddings,
parties, house concerts, and solo and duo performances. This will be Tom’s
first Dulci-More Festival. He is from North Canton.
Jan Hammond and Tom Conner recorded a duet project
in 2006 entitled Deep Sky. In the duo setting, Tom and Jan have created a
wonderful sound where the guitar and dulcimer compliment each other quite
beautifully. The application of solo finger style, virtuoso-level technique on
both instruments has produced a unique sound with endless musical
possibilities.
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.
Janet
has always loved music, and began her journey into its beauty and intricacies
as a young child, as there was always music around her in the home. Sixth grade
found her beginning flute in school, and from that she
taught herself to play piano. High school and college furthered her skills.
Since that time she has played piano for church
singing, choirs, solos, and small groups. She has participated in community
bands and orchestras, as well as small folk music groups. She has taught music
in schools, and learned to play many instruments. It was in 2002 that she first
heard the Hammered Dulcimer, and it was "Love at First Hammer!"
She
currently writes and arranges music, as well as performs it, and teaches music,
piano, music theory classes, and workshops at festivals. She has written a book
of hymn arrangements for Hammered Dulcimer, as well as a book of original
tunes. Her latest endeavor has been a book on Music Theory for Hammered
Dulcimer players. She currently plays in "Striking Strings" out of
the Eastman Community Music School in Rochester, NY, (currently her home town) with Mitzie Collins as director.
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, and
they were back for Dulci-More Festival 16. They are returning for Dulci-More
Festival 17 after many who heard them the past two years asked us to make sure
to bring them back. These sisters from the Miller family include:
Allison Miller began her musical
career at age three with Suzuki piano lessons under the tutelage of Carol Wunderle, and although she continued to play piano for the
next thirteen years, she picked up the harp at age fourteen and began to
explore the traditional music scene. She attended workshops at the Ohio
Scottish
Arts
School
and, after completing an undergraduate degree in biology, had the opportunity
to pursue post-graduate studies in Clarsarch
(Scottish small harp) and Scot's Song at the Royal
Scottish
Academy
of Music and Drama in Glasgow,
Scotland.
Allison taught with the Comhaltas coinin
Erin
group in Scotland,
has taught both privately and publicly in America,
and has appeared in concert in Scotland,
Canada,
and at multiple venues in the States. She and Sairey
play as a duo, The Hired Hands, and
they released their first CD, Something,
in the spring of 2009. She has just completed her Doctorate in Physical
Therapy, and she hopes to bring both good tunes and ergonomic playing
techniques to the field.
Sairey
Miller, currently a Junior at Christendom
College
in Virginia,
has played Suzuki piano under Mary Louise Foster for ten years, but it wasn't
until she began playing harp at age nine that she truly discovered her love for
traditional music. She has taken workshops at the Ohio Scottish Arts School and
at the 2007 Edinburgh International Harp Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland, and
has had the privilege of studying under such diverse musicians as Sue Richards,
Ann Heymann, and Sharon Knowles of the US, Wendy
Steward, Catriona McKay, and William Jackson of
Scotland, and Robin 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.
Laura Miller (age 16) has studied the
Suzuki piano method under Mary Louis Foster since age six, and picked up the
violin at age 10. She attended the Ohio
Scottish
Arts
School
and was duly converted to the realm of traditional
music -- she now plays only Scottish, Irish, Quebecois, and Welsh fiddle tunes.
Since 2005, she has studied under fiddle masters Andre Brunet of Quebec,
Anna Wendy Stevenson and Mike Vass of Scotland,
and Ed Pearlman of Maine,
and she has competed at the Ohio Scottish Games, the Ligonier Highland Games in
Pennsylvania,
and most recently at the 2010 National Fiddle Competition in Virginia.
Micah Miller (age 15) has studied the
Suzuki piano method under Mary Louis Foster for the past nine years and picked
up the Anglo concertina in 2005. With the concertina
she is mainly self-taught, learning tunes by listening to CDs and playing with
her sisters. In addition, however, she has had the chance to take workshops
with brilliant concertina players such as Grainne Hambly, Caroline Keene, and Frank Edgley.
The lighthearted tone of her concertina may be heard
on several tracks on the family CD and she often joins her sisters
onstage.
Maggie Miller (age 12) began playing
the piano at age 6 and found her niche in the traditional music scene when she
picked up the tin whistle two years ago. She enjoys
performing with the family band and has attended tin whistle workshops at the
Celtic Roots Festival in Goderich, Ontario.
Recently she branched out to the Irish low whistle, so listen out for some
lovely low undertones during the program!
Jesse Isley
Jesse
Isley is from Columbia, SC. He will be traveling with Stephen Humphries to his second Dulci-More
Festival (they were both with us for Dulci-More Festival 16), and we expect
them to share some set time with each other again. Jessee
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 12-16, 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 a mountain dulcimer player and
folksinger from Gallipolis and director of the Fort New Salem Dulcimer Festival.
Her music includes traditional Appalachian tunes, traditional and contemporary
folk music, and some original compositions that feature environmental themes.
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 plays guitar, Native American flute, Kratz zither, and MacArthur harp.
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.
Sutch Sounds
Adam Sutch and Sutch
Sounds will return this year from Daisytown PA.
Adam is 20 years old and has been playing, performing,
competing, and teaching the hammered dulcimer now since the age of 11.
Adam is currently a college sophomore. Adam Has been yhe Mid-eastern Regional Hammered Dulcimer Champion. In
2009, he placed second in the National Hammered Dulcimer competition at the
Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield, Kansas third in 2008 (was in the top five
in 2010 and sixth in 2007). His group Sutch Sounds consists of his brother,
Aaron, age 17 on the marimbula; his brother, Austin,
age 12 on the bodhran; and his grandparents, Ron
& Darlene Howes, on guitars (and sometimes solo
or with just his grandfather). Their repertoire includes a wide variety of
music including original, Irish, Celtic, traditional tunes, and much more. He and his band, Sutch Sounds, have recorded four CDs: one
completely compiled of original songs, two CD’s of Irish and traditional tunes,
and one album of Christmas favorites. You can
see Adam’s upcoming events or learn more about him at http://adamsutch.tripod.com.
Sutch Sounds performed at Dulci-More Festivals
12, 14, & 15.
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.
Additional Workshops by Tom Ball, John McAuliffe, Jerry
Rockwell, Jim Stone, Dulci-More
Members (Don Blair, Leanna Dugan, Lynn
McLeish, Jim Miller), 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.
Doug
Berch
Doug
made dulcimers and other instruments during the 1970s and 80s. He had stopped
making instruments so that he could focus primarily on performing and teaching
but he always missed lutherie. He is happy to be
making instruments again. This is his first time at our Dulci-More Festival.
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.
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, Dulci-More Festival Director
984 Homewood Avenue
Salem,
Ohio 44460-3816
330-332-4420
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