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Evening Concerts for Dulci-More Festival 18: Cathy Barton & Dave Para, The
Hired Hands, Heidi Muller & Bob Webb, Don Pedi, Rick Thum,
Ed Trickett, with Dulci-More
for Short Opening Sets Each Evening and Bill Schilling as Performing Emcee
Mini-Concert for Dulci-More
Festival 18: Mountain Marge Diamond, Evening Rose,
Guy & Sharrie George, Lisa & Heather Malyuk, George Mann, Gary & Toni Sager, Linda Sigismondi, Stringed Fantasy, Sutch
Sounds, Matt Watroba, and Alice & Earl Whitehill
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Online Registration Page
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Program subject to
change if needed.
Updated
Most recent updates will be mentioned
here: Program in PDF Format Has Been Updated with Workshop Descriptions, Other Nearby
Motels Have Been Included since We Have Heard that All of the Lisbon Motels Are
Full for the Weekend, Updated Workshop Grid (Updated a Workshop, Moved Two
Workshop Times & Locations); Updated Vendor List; Updated Probable Menu
Dulci-More Festival 18
on
Memorial Day Weekend,
Friday-Sunday,
May 25-27, 2012
at BSA Camp McKinley,
37748
Furnace Road, Lisbon, Ohio.
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Schedule for Dulci-More
Festival 18
(Schedule subject to change as needed)
Evening Concerts & Workshops:
Evening Concerts for Dulci-More Festival 18: Cathy Barton & Dave Para, The
Hired Hands, Heidi Muller & Bob Webb, Don Pedi, Rick Thum,
Ed Trickett, with Dulci-More
for Short Opening Sets Each Evening and Bill Schilling as Performing Emcee
Mini-Concert for Dulci-More
Festival 18: Mountain Marge Diamond, Evening Rose,
Guy & Sharrie George, Lisa & Heather Malyuk, George Mann, Gary & Toni Sager, Linda Sigismondi, Stringed Fantasy, Sutch
Sounds, Matt Watroba, and Alice & Earl Whitehill
Festival Vendors
Alice Whitehill (Stitches & Strings); Guy George; Lynn
McLeish; Mountz Gallery; Prussia Valley Dulcimers Acoustic Music
Shop; Rick Thum; Timbre Hill Dulcimers; Waterlily
Productions, Winsome Expressions
Evening Concerts &
Mini-Concerts Indoors in the Camp Dining Hall
Workshops & Other
Activities Outdoors or Indoors (or Under Cover) Depending on Weather
All Workshops Go Ahead as
Scheduled Under Cover in Case of Inclement Weather
Lawn Chairs Are Suggested
for Comfortable Seating at Workshops
Friday Evening, May 25, 2012
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Dulci-More Festival 18 |
Mini-Concerts,
Special Events, & Evening Concerts |
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Friday |
Dining Hall Main
Stage for Most Activities |
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5:00-9:00 PM |
Registration |
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6:00-6:45 PM |
Coverdish Dinner (Open to All) |
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7:00-9:15 PM |
Evening Concerts Dulci-More The
Hired Hands Rick
Thum |
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9:30 PM on |
Song Circle,
Jamming, Campfire |
Saturday, May 26, 2012
|
Dulci-More Festival 18 |
Mini-Concerts,
Special Events, & Evening Concerts |
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Saturday |
Dining Hall Main
Stage for Most Activities |
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8:00 AM on |
Registration |
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8:00-9:00 AM |
Breakfast Time |
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9:00-10:00 AM |
Workshop Cluster
1 |
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10:15-11:15 AM |
Workshop Cluster
2 |
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11:30 AM-1:30 PM |
Lunch Time |
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11:30 -11:55 PM |
Mini-Concert – Stringed Fantasy |
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12:00-12:25 PM |
Mini-Concert
– Alice & Earl Whitehill |
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12:30-12:55 PM |
Mini-Concert
– Sutch Sounds |
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1:00-1:25 PM |
Mini-Concert – Gary & Toni Sager |
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1:45-2:45 PM |
Workshop Cluster
3 |
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3:00-4:00 PM |
Ability Level
Jamming Workshops |
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4:15-4:45 PM |
Name That
Old-Time (or Other) Tune Contest |
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5:00-6:30 PM |
Dinner Time |
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5:00-5:45 PM |
Open Stage/Clubs
Open Stage |
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5:50-6:15 PM |
Mini-Concert – Lisa & Heather Malyuk |
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6:20-6:45 PM |
Mini-Concert – Matt Watroba |
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7:00-9:15 PM |
Evening Concerts Dulci-More Heidi
Muller & Bob Webb Ed
Trickett |
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9:30 PM on |
Song Circle, Jamming,
Campfire |
Sunday, May 27, 2012
|
Dulci-More Festival 18 |
Mini-Concerts,
Special Events, & Evening Concerts |
|
Sunday |
Dining Hall Main
Stage for Most Activities |
|
8:00 on |
Registration |
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8:00-9:00 AM |
Breakfast Time |
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9:00-10:00 AM |
Hymn/Gospel/Spiritual
Sing |
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10:15-11:15 AM |
Workshop Cluster
4 |
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11:30-1:30 AM |
Lunch Time |
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11:30-11:55 AM |
Mini-Concert – Evening Rose |
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12:00-12:25 PM |
Mini-Concert – Marge Diamond |
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12:30-12:55 PM |
Mini-Concert – Linda Sigismondi |
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1:00-1:25 PM |
Mini-Concert – Bill Schilling |
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1:45-2:45 PM |
Workshop Cluster
5 |
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3:00-4:00 PM |
Workshop Cluster
6 |
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4:15-4:45 PM |
Non-Denominational
Worship Service at |
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5:00-6:30 PM |
Dinner Time |
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5:00-5:45 PM |
Open Stage/Clubs
Open Stage |
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5:50-6:15 PM |
Mini-Concert – George Mann |
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6:20-6:45 PM |
Mini-Concert – Guy & Sharrie
George |
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7:00-9:15 PM |
Evening Concerts Dulci-More Don
Pedi Cathy
Barton & Dave Para |
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9:30 PM on |
Song Circle,
Jamming, Campfire |
Monday, May 28, 2012
Final Pack-up & Clean-up
Weekend Workshop Schedule for Festival 18
(Working Copy Subject to Final Additions, Approvals, and Changes)
Get Dulci-More Festival 18 Workshop
Grid in Adobe PDF Format
If
your screen resolution makes it hard to read this chart, use the Adobe PDF Link
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Dulci-More:
Folk & Traditional Musicians
|
Festival Pricing
for Dulci-More Festival 18 |
Regular Rate |
All Children in Family (With Responsible Adult) |
|
Friday Evening
Concert |
$10 |
$2 Total |
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Saturday Daytime
(Workshops & Mini-Concerts) |
$8 |
$2 Total |
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Saturday Evening
Concert |
$10 |
$2 Total |
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Saturday All Day
(Includes Evening Concert) |
$15 |
$2 Total |
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Sunday Daytime
(Workshops & Mini-Concerts) |
$8 |
$2 Total |
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Sunday Evening
Concert |
$10 |
$2 Total |
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Sunday All Day
(Includes Evening Concert) |
$15 |
$2 Total |
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Full Weekend
(Includes All Activities & Concerts) |
$35 |
$5 Total |
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Preregistered Full Weekend |
$30 |
$5 Total |
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Camping Pricing
for Dulci-More Festival 17 |
Regular Rate |
Children’s Rate Per Child |
|
Preregistered Camping per Person per Night |
$2 |
$2 |
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On-Site
Registration Camping/Person/Night |
$4 |
$4 |
Pre-registered Group Rates Available;
Contact Bill for Details
Children Welcome (Note the Rates Above
– Just $5 Covers All the Children in a Family for the Full Weekend whether
There Are Two or Four or More)
An Online Registration
Page using PayPal to accept your PayPal
or Credit Card payments is available at www.dulcimore.org/onlinedmfregpage.htm.
It was updated for DMF 18 on December 21, 2011. Make sure to let Bill Schilling
know if you have any trouble with it or any suggestions for making it work
better for us.
Alternately, Send
Registrations with Checks Made Payable to: Dulci-More
Dulci-More, c/o Bill Schilling, 984 Homewood Avenue,
Salem, OH 44460-3816
Please
include your Name, Address, and Phone Number
Number in
Party (Indicate All Children with Responsible Adult if Applicable)
Nights
of Camping (if Desired)
Special
Needs
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Dulci-More Festival 18 Registration Forms in Adobe
PDF Format
Food & Meals Available at the
Festival at Reasonable Rates
Link to Dulci-More
Festival 17 Menu Page (Subject to
Change if Needed)
Instrument & Music Vendors at the
Festival
Dulci-More T-Shirts and Sweat Shirts Available at the Festival
In Keeping with BSA
Policy, No Alcohol Is Permitted at the Festival
Festival Location
BSA Camp McKinley, 37748
Furnace Rd., Lisbon, OH
From center of Lisbon, OH
(intersection of 30 & 45), follow 30 west (Lincoln Way), turn right (north)
just before bridge at edge of town, follow Logtown
Rd. (St. Jacob's Logtown Rd.), turn left on Furnace
Rd., cross bridge to festival. Follow McKinley Scout Camp or Folk Festival
signs.
Map to BSA Camp McKinley
The activities listed here show the purposes
for the festival, as with the club, are for people to jam (from the workshops
to campfires, song circles, jams, and hymn sing), to learn (workshops), to
listen (concerts and mini-concerts), and to perform (open stages of two types).
We run a children's workshop area for kids of all ages during all workshop
clusters.
This is our sixteenth year at beautiful and historic BSA
Camp McKinley. The great indoor and covered facilities have let us enjoy all
scheduled events despite continuous and heavy rain during a day of Festival 3
and other questionable weather.
Workshops at the festival are run in beginner,
advanced beginner, intermediate, advanced, and general levels for many song
styles and many instruments. Some instruments are available for loan so that
anyone can get in on the fun and learning.
Pre-registered group discounts are available.
Inquire about them before the festival.
Children are always welcome with responsible
adults.
On-site Camping is primitive, meaning that
there are no hook-ups available. Bunk spaces in Zaplata
Cabin at camping rates are available until all are taken (no facilities in
cabin, but an outhouse is close). Rest rooms and showers are available at the
camp.
Campers wanting hook-ups
should make their own reservations at another campsite.
The Number for Lock 30
Campground outside Lisbon is 330-424-9197.
Non-campers may want to
make reservations at a local motel.
In Lisbon are: Frola at 330-424-3590, Days Inn of Lisbon (Was Lisbon Inn)
at 330-420-0111 or 800-329-7466 (1-800-DAYSINN), and Trail’s End at
330-424-7593.
Several others may also be found nearby.
Other motels in the area
other than in
Barnett's Motel, 31257 State
Route 62 (Salem-Alliance Road), Salem, OH 44460, 330-337-8758,
www.barnettsmotel.com, about 15 miles northwest of the festival
Colonial Motel, 15036 State
Route 62 (
Das Dutch Village Inn, 150 East State Route 14,
Columbiana, OH 44408, 330-482-5050, inn@dasdutchvillage.com, about 15 miles northeast
of the festival
Comfort Inn, 15860 Saint
Clair Avenue, East Liverpool, OH 43920, (330) 386-3800, www.comfortinn.com,
about 15 miles southeast of the festival
East Liverpool Motor
Lodge, 2340 Dresden Avenue, East Liverpool, OH 43920, (330) 386-5858, www.elmotorlodge.com,
about 16 miles southeast of the festival
Sturgis House, 122
West 5th Street, East Liverpool, OH 43920, (330) 382-0194, www.sturgishouse.com,
about 18 miles southeast of the festival
Others can
be found 20-25 miles northeast of the festival site in
(Some Presenters Will Only Be at the Festival
One Day As Indicated in the Schedule)
Concert,
Mini-Concert, & Workshop Presenters
This information about the
artists is available with pictures of the artists at this link.
Cathy Barton and Dave Para have
created dynamic performances acclaimed for 25 years for their variety and
expertise in vocal and instrumental music. They have celebrated the musical
traditions and folklife of Missouri and the Ozarks in
festivals, clubs, concert halls, schools, and studios across the U.S. and
Europe. Their audiences are as diverse as their repertoire.
A versatile duo, Dave and Cathy play several
stringed instruments including hammered and fretted dulcimers, banjo, guitar,
and autoharp, as well as "found" instruments like bones, spoons, mouthbow, and leaf. Their concerts present a range of music
from the lively dance tunes they have collected in their home region to old
ballads to new songs. They have conducted several instrumental workshops as
well as those about songs from the Civil War, from American rivers, old gospel
songs, children's songs, and Christmas music.
Putting the song before the singer,
Dave and Cathy are caretakers of a long musical heritage, and they are known
for deep understanding and affection for traditional music. They also keep
their minds and ears open as the roots and branches of folk music run deep and
spread wide. Missouri is a social and geographic meeting place, and its rich
cultural diversity continues to inspire Dave and Cathy’s music and broaden
their repertoire.
In their mission to introduce new
audiences to folk music, Dave and Cathy have participated in the artists-in-education
program for the Missouri Arts Council since the early 1980s. They have done
folk arts residencies and assembly programs in schools across the state. They
also created and serve as artistic directors of two annual folk festivals, the Big
Muddy Folk Festival, in their hometown of Boonville, and the Boone’s Lick
Country Folk Festival, in Arrow Rock,
Children of the folk revival, both
Dave and Cathy can credit older sisters with sparking their interest in folk
music in the early 1960s. Their life in rural Missouri has focused that
interest.
A recognized master of the frailing banjo style Cathy has twice won the Tennessee
Old-Time Banjo Championship. The late Roy Acuff often called her his "favorite banjo
player" because her playing reminded him of earlier country music sounds.
Cathy can also be credited for some of the growing interest in the hammered
dulcimer in the Midwest. In the mid-1970s, she introduced it to the Walnut Valley
Festival in Winfield, Kan., and has since provided a number of
current players with their first hearing of the instrument.
While earning college and graduate
degrees in humanities and folklore, Cathy worked as an assistant folklorist at
the Ozark Folk
Center in Mountain View, Ark. She also toured with Ramona (Mrs.
Grandpa) Jones and played at her dinner theater there for a number of seasons.
Dave Para took his sister's guitar to
classes at the Old Town
School of Folk Music in his hometown Chicago and rekindled his
childhood interest in folk music. While attending college in Cathy's hometown
of Columbia, Mo., Dave managed the Chez Coffeehouse, a focal point of folk
music in Central Missouri for 20 years. There he started accompanying several
fiddlers and began playing in local string bands. He has since been noted often
for his expert and distinctive back-up guitar style.
Of their ten recordings, the first few
and most recent few were-self produced. In 1982 the Walnut Valley Occasional
called their Ballad of the Boonslick
album "the finest acoustic music heard this year." The release of
their On a Day Like Today album in 1986 for Folk-Legacy Records
was a special achievement. This small, family-run record company renowned for
exceptional recordings of important traditional and contemporary folk musicians
has greatly influenced Dave and Cathy and helped to inspire their study of
traditional music in their own community. Teaming up with the company's
founders, Sandy and Caroline Paton, they produced an
album of lesser known Christmas music, 'Twas on
a Night Like This, which the American Library Association named a
Notable Recording in 1990. They have appeared on several other recordings with
the Patons, Ed Trickett, Ramona Jones, Bob Dyer, Wade Hampton Miller, Jay Round and
Ron Penix, Judy Domeny, and
Lisa Redfern.
In 1993 and again in 1995, Dave and
Cathy conspired with friend and musician Bob Dyer to produce two landmark
recordings of songs from the Civil War in Missouri, Kansas and Arkansas, Johnny
Whistletrigger, and Rebel in the Woods.
Both albums were named "Notable Recordings" by the American Library
Association.
These two albums have gained the trio
wide respect among Civil War historians in the region and put them in demand
for seminars and performances at national parks, re-enactments, and historical
meetings throughout the state, including the third funeral for Jesse James in
1995, after the remains of the famous outlaw were exhumed for DNA testing.
This will be the first Dulci-More Festival appearance for Cathy & Dave.
The Hired Hands are a 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 & 17. They are returning for Dulci-More Festival 18 after many who heard them the past
three years asked us to make sure to bring them back and to feature them for a
year in one of our evening concerts. 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 Senior 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 17) has studied the
Suzuki piano method under Mary Louise 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 16) has studied the
Suzuki piano method under Mary Louis Foster for the past ten 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 13) began playing
the piano at age 6 and found her niche in the traditional music scene when she
picked up the tin whistle three years ago. She enjoys performing with the
family band and has attended tin whistle workshops at the Celtic Roots Festival
in Goderich, Ontario. She has also branched out to
the Irish low whistle, so listen out for some lovely low undertones during the
program!
Heidi Muller and Bob Webb perform an
eclectic mix of original songs, traditional tunes, and contemporary
instrumentals. From Charleston, West Virginia, their shows feature Heidi's
songwriting and crystalline vocals backed by both on guitar and Appalachian
dulcimer, and by Bob additionally on electric cello and mandolin. Heidi was a
well-known performer in the Pacific Northwest for two decades before moving
back home to New Jersey, when she met Bob at a Northeast Regional Folk Alliance
conference. Bob’s multi-instrumental talents at accompaniment (he’s a 9-year
veteran of the Mountain Stage Band) and skills as a recording engineer led to their
further collaboration, and they began performing together in 2003. Heidi and
Bob have appeared at the NewSong Festival, Augusta
Heritage Center, Central Florida Dulcimer and Autoharp Festival, Tumbleweed
Festival, and Seattle Folklore Society concerts and shared the stage with Bill Staines, Robin and Linda Williams, Crooked Still, Kate
Campbell, Johnsmith, and Small Potatoes. They
released their first CD together named Seeing Things in late
2005.
Seeing Things includes nine of Heidi’s original songs, a cover of “I
Will” by Lennon-McCartney and three instrumentals that reflect a sense of
place, stories and roots stretching from the Appalachians to the Pacific
Northwest. “Muller’s songs express down-to-earth sentiments in lovely poetry,”
writes Rich Warren of Sing Out! magazine. “She sounds like she
truly loves singing and wants nothing more than to share that with you.” The Victory
Review describes the new songs as “created from true heart... sweeter,
deeper and more meaningful than ever.” Two tracks were written with the
community of Big Ugly Creek, WV where Heidi wrote songs and collected oral
histories in 2004. This resulted in a book named Patchwork Dreams,
which was published in 2007. Described by Dulcimer Players’ News as
“one of the dulcimer community’s best songwriters and performers”, Heidi has
shared her music across the country for over 25 years, headlining at festivals
including Kerrville and South Florida Folk, and opening for such artists as Nanci Griffith, Ramblin’ Jack
Elliott, Tanglefoot, Bill Staines,
and Jean Ritchie.
Bob Webb has played cello and guitar
since childhood, and dulcimer and mandolin for over 20 years. He was a founding
member of Stark Raven that became the house band for the public radio show Mountain
Stage. In his years on the show, he accompanied musical stars Odetta, Tom Paxton, Shawn Colvin, Arlo
Guthrie, and many others. Bob is also a recording engineer and producer. He has
recorded CDs for YouTube phenomenon Chris Cendana, jazz artist Ryan Kennedy, the Voodoo Katz, Comparsa, the Contrarians, Bare Bones, Jon Wikstrom, and many others. He collaborated with Kate Long
on the production of the 2002 radio series In Their Own Country,
which was nominated for a Peabody Award, and the 2008 radio documentary Kettle
Bottom. A song he recorded for Ann Savoy was included in the 2006 movie
All the King’s Men. Bob is also known for his work with children
-- he directed programming at Great Oak Farm and Creative Capers kids’ camps in
WV, taught over 700 children and adults to make and play his “boximer” cardboard dulcimers, and helped develop the Music
Mentors program that provides music lessons to at-risk children in Charleston,
WV.
Heidi & Bob were with us for Dulci-More Festival 11. As this is written in December
2011, they are on tour in the Pacific Northwest promoting their newest CD, Light
the Winter's Dark.
Don Pedi is from Marshall, North
Carolina. He was with us previously for Dulci-More
Festival 13.
Don Pedi's
music sounds with a clear melody and a pureness of spirit. It surpasses the
boundaries of musical style, unfolding a timeless expression of human
creativity. For over forty years Don has amazed and delighted audiences with
his unique "Fiddle-Pick" style of playing the dulcimer. Drawing on
decades of association with many of the best musicians in the southern
mountains, as well as his deep commitment to preserving the old music, Don
carries on the tradition in an exiting and innovative fashion. Rhythm and
melody match the fiddles, up to speed, note for note, creating an ancient
sound, that strikes a chord with the most modern listener.
Don won first place in the first
contest he ever entered at the 1974 Fiddler's Grove Festival, in Union Grove,
North Carolina. Before retiring from festival competitions in 1982, he had won
over thirty first place trophies and awards.
Don Pedi has performed with a great
many musical legends. He currently performs solo, as a duo with Bruce Greene, or in a group with Bruce.
In 2003 Don represented Appalachia at
the Smithsonian Folklife Festival on the National
Mall in
Don and his music appear in the
motion pictures: Songcatcher and The
Journey of August King.
Since 1985 Don has served as an on air host at NPR
affiliate WCQS-FM in Asheville, NC. Close to Home features
Traditional, Old-Time, and Classic Folk music. The show airs on Saturdays from
8:00-10:00 pm. Listen locally on the radio, or streaming on the world wide web
at WCQS.ORG.
Don Pedi was born into a
musical family in Chelsea Massachusetts. On weekends, his grandfather, who died
before Don was born, would close his barber shop for business, and open his
home in the back as a gathering place for family and friends to share homemade
food, fellowship, and live music. Don's grandfather played guitar, mandolin,
and banjo. Don's uncle Frank made his living singing and playing music. Another
gifted singer is Don's dad. He'll burst into song at the drop of a hat.
Don got involved with the Boston area
folk music scene in the early sixties. 1964 was when he first laid eyes on a
dulcimer. It was being played by Richard Farina at a live performance by Mimi
and Richard Farina at the old Unicorn Coffee House in Boston.
The sound of the dulcimer proved most
alluring. That night in a conversation with Richard Farina, Don was convinced
that someday he would get himself a dulcimer and play it. Contemporary
performers like Bob Dylan, Tom Paxton, Patrick Sky, Joan Baez and others
attracted Don to the Newport Folk Festival. While there he was exposed to
traditional musicians like Frank Proffitt, Doc
Watson, Mississippi John Hurt, Almeda Riddle, and
such that were a major influence on his musical tastes.
By 1966 Don was traveling a lot. With
Cambridge as a base, he lived for various periods of time in different parts of
the country. In 1973, while living in the Colorado Rockies, Don met Tad Wright
and Keith Zimmerman, a couple of musicians from Asheville, NC. After hearing
Don play, they invited him to join them. He did, and they piled into Tad's 1969
Volkswagen mini-van and drove to North Carolina.
At first sight of the mountains around
Harmon Den and Fines Creek, Don knew he was home. He's pretty much lived in and
around Asheville from then on. Since settling in Western North Carolina Don has
been recognized as the man who could "really play" a dulcimer. He is
a pioneer in that his music has broken new ground and cleared a path for others.
In Don's hands, the dulcimer has been accepted as an instrument well suited to
playing traditional Southern Dance music. This was at a time when most
"Old-Time" musicians thought a dulcimer should be hung on a wall with
a pretty ribbon.
In 1991 Don and wife Jean moved to a
little farm in the mountains of Madison County, North Carolina. The area is
rich in traditional music and customs (neighbors still plow with mules and
horses). Don is at home.
Ranked
as the most influential dulcimer player of the last decade by readers of Dulcimer
Player News, Rick Thum has made his
mark on every aspect of the hammered dulcimer world. Rick is perhaps best known from his album, Front
Porch Waltz, and his festival performances, which have regularly earned
him the “most popular performer” title at the largest national dulcimer
festival. He brings a combination of passion and friendly accessibility to his
teaching that makes his workshops and master classes favorites at festivals
across the country, and has tapped this teaching experience to produce the
best-selling instructional CD series for hammered dulcimer, the "Original
Song of the Month Club". Rick is also the designer of the highly-regarded
line of hammered dulcimers bearing his name. Yet for all his time in the
studio, onstage, in the classroom, and in the luthier’s
shop, Rick is most at home at a late-night jam session, where you might even
find him playing an instrument other than the dulcimer from time to time.
Rick Thum taught himself to play guitar and drums at age twelve and played the trumpet in his high school band. Throughout high school and college (B. S. Industrial Administration) Rick played in rock bands, eventually playing regularly on the upper deck of the Admiral in St. Louis. While raising his family Rick directed his church choir. Rick's interest in traditional music was sparked when he bought a hammered dulcimer on a whim and found himself in a three-piece folk band. In 1991 Rick became co-owner of a large midwestern acoustic instrument shop. In 1994 he sold his interest in the shop to devote more time to being a traveling musician. He placed first at the 1994 Southwest Regional Dulcimer Contest and third in the 1995 National Championship at Winfield, Kansas. Rick was voted Best Performer and Favorite Teacher for several years running at the prestigious Evart Dulcimer Funfest (the oldest and largest dulcimer festival in the nation). He has shared the stage with Mike Seeger, The Tony Rice Unit, Steve Kaufman, Norman Blake, and Bryan Bowers and opened for John Hartford, Norman & Nancy Blake, and Leo Kottke. Rick is a popular teacher on the festival circuit and travels across the country playing solo and teaching at music festvals. He currently has four recordings; Hammered Fiddle Tunes, A Reason to Dance, Front Porch Waltz, and Down the Old Dirt Road. Mel Bay Publishing Inc. has published the companion book to Hammered Fiddle Tunes. Rick is currently manufacturing hammered dulcimers (Rick Thum Dulcimers) which can be seen at a retailer near you and has, by demand, started the Song of the Month Club, mail order lessons by audio CD.
Rick is from Eureka,
Missouri. This will be his first Dulci-More Festival.
Ed Trickett
Ed Trickett
will be coming to us from his home in the Chicago area. He was previously with
us for Dulci-More Festival 11. Over the years, he has
been described as a singer’s singer who has the ability to take a song, get to
the heart of it, and share all of it with others. He accompanies his singing
with thoughtful and delicate playing on 6 and 12 string guitars and on the
hammered dulcimer. Ed says:
I have been collecting and performing
folk songs for over 40 years. My early musical influences were Frank Profitt, Larry Older, Bob and Evelyn Beers, George and
Gerry Armstrong, and Howie Mitchell. Later I learned
from and sang with a number of other musicians whose commitment and talent were
extraordinary: Gordon Bok, Bob Coltman,
Cathy Barton, and Ann Mayo Muir. Each taught me that it’s the song, not the
singer, that’s important. Over the years I’ve performed in coffee houses,
colleges, folk music festivals, and varied other occasions in the United
States, Canada, and the British Isles. I have also had the opportunity of appearing
on several wonderful radio programs across the country, including Garrison Keillor’s Prairie Home Companion (St. Paul, MN) and Rich
Warren’s Midnight Special (Chicago).
I’ve learned hundreds of songs, and
probably forgotten as many as I know. My repertoire ranges from traditional
ballads to songs of the sea, labor songs, songs of love, and parodies. I am not
a song writer. I am a song finder and a song crafter. I gravitate toward
beautiful melodies and good stories. While I play primarily 6 and 12 string
guitar, I also play the hammered dulcimer, which I use primarily as an
accompaniment instrument. Singing with the hammered dulcimer is a little like
rubbing your stomach and patting your head while singing. My recording efforts
began in 1964 with the Golden Ring (Folk Legacy #16), a loose collection of
friends who used to gather in the living room of George and Gerry Armstrong in
Wilmette, Illinois. I’ve been part of 4 other ensemble recordings since then,
as well as recording 4 solo albums, the most recent of which is Echo on the
Evening Tide (Azalia City Recordings). In addition,
for 26 years I sang with Gordon Bok and Ann Mayo
Muir, out of which came 10 CDs. I’ve also had the privilege of accompanying a
number of wonderful musicians, including Don McLean, Rosalie Sorrels, Mark Spoelstra, Sara Grey, Sally Rogers, Cathy Barton & Dave
Para, and Joe Hickerson.
My greatest musical disappointment was
going to Woodstock in 1969 with Dave Bromberg and Rosalie Sorrels, getting
flown by helicopter at dawn and seeing all those people, but, in the final
analysis, not getting to play on what admittedly was one of the more minor
stages.
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: 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.
I, Marge Diamond began playing dulcimer twenty-six 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-six 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.
Evening Rose includes Laura Elder
(guitar, mountain dulcimer, pennywhistle, concertina, voice), Kathy Smith
(hammered dulcimer, mountain dulcimer, pennywhistles, guitar, voice), and Cindy
Wolfinger (guitar, mandolin, bodhran,
banjo, percussion, bowed psaltery, voice) playing a wide variety of styles to
fit any occasion, but with a primary focus on Traditional/Folk/Celtic music.
They feature a large variety of
instruments in their performances, which give depth and richness to their songs
and provide a perfect accompaniment to their harmonious voices.
Evening Rose has a distinct sound and
wide repertoire from joyous and upbeat reels and Irish jigs, to sorrowfully
haunting ballads and instrumentals making them a perfect compliment to
weddings, parties, organizational events, or any occasion where music is needed
- whether they are the front stage focus of the entertainment, or simply
providing background atmosphere.
They are from the Lancaster, Ohio
area. They have three CDs. This is their first time at our Dulci-More
Festival.
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 and ukulele. 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, & 17, and Guy was on his own for Dulci-More
Festivals 13 & 14.
Lisa & Heather Malyuk
are celebrated performing artists in the U.S. and abroad. These young musicians
have received much positive acclaim for their interpretation of old-time
Appalachian, Celtic, world, and original folk music. The girls' performances
feature an articulate hammered dulcimer coupled with inventive guitar playing
and are spiked with dynamic tunes on the fiddle and banjo uke.
Lisa & Heather exude musical maturity and ingenuity during their sets of
eclectic folk tunes while preserving the history of the music and carrying the
traditions into the future. Their ever growing repertoire of energetic reels
and jigs, bittersweet waltzes, driving international rhythms, and old-fashioned
sacred music is a must hear!
Lisa & Heather were both home
educated from kindergarten through high-school which allowed them to focus
their creative abilities on music and the performing arts. Both girls were
introduced to the piano at age 4. A few years later, Lisa began taking flute
lessons and Heather began her study of the violin. After some time, Lisa became
discontent with the classical scene and had the opportunity to purchase a
hammered dulcimer; the instrument that was bought on a whim became the joy of
her musical career. Lisa began taking lessons from hammered dulcimer virtuoso,
Tina Bergmann, and quickly developed into a proficient player. It was not long
before Heather purchased a guitar in order to collaborate with Lisa in folk
music. Heather took guitar lessons from Tina Bergmann, as well, and joint
lessons under Tina's guidance encouraged the girls to explore and develop their
take on traditional folk tunes. While Lisa has shifted her entire focus to
music on the hammered dulcimer, Appalachian dulcimer, and banjo-uke, Heather has continued to progress on violin, guitar,
fiddle, and nyckelharpa. As well as staying occupied
with their busy performance and teaching schedules, Lisa & Heather also
pursue lives outside of music. Lisa is a Registered Dietitian and Heather is
completing her Doctoral degree in Audiology.
Lisa & Heather have independently
recorded and produced three folk albums, 13 Tunes, Summer's
End, and Stella as well as Merry Christmas from
Lisa & Heather Malyuk which was released at
Walt Disney World during the holiday season of 2009.
Lisa & Heather can be seen and
heard at numerous music venues, art galleries, coffee houses, wineries,
farmers' markets, festivals, and other cultural events throughout northeast
Ohio and beyond. In 2005, Lisa & Heather had the pleasure of appearing on
the Woodsongs Old Time Radio Hour in Lexington,
Kentucky, and were privileged to participate in the first annual Causeway
Dulcimer Festival in Bushmills, Northern Ireland.
Lisa placed first in the Mid-Eastern Regional Hammered Dulcimer Competition in
May 2006 and went on to place fourth in the National Hammered Dulcimer
Championships in Winfield, Kansas in September 2006. Lisa & Heather have
been among the prestigious staff at both the Upper Potomac Dulcimer Festival in
Shepherdstown, West Virginia and the Great American Dulcimer Convention in
Pineville, Kentucky. The girls' notable past performances include the Kent
State Folk Festival, Dulci-More Festival in Lisbon,
Ohio, the Swannanoa Gathering in Asheville, North Carolina, and Walt Disney
World in Orlando, Florida, just to name a few. Lisa & Heather Malyuk have received much positive acclaim during their
career thus far and look forward to continuing with many musical ventures in
the years to come.
Lisa & Heather are from
Streetsboro. They played at Dulci-More Festival 12.
George Mann is from Ithaca, New York.
This is his first Dulci-More Festival.
He says: I've been making music, "seriously," since 1998, when I teamed up with Julius Margolin and began a decade of fun and frustration, singing for the cause of unions and in eight years of protest against a stolen election and illegal president. Julius never once would concede that George Bush was president.... I accepted it and fought. We produced three CDs of our music and four CDs in the Hail to the Thief compilation series that ended, thankfully, with Farewell to the Thief! in 2008.
Along the way, we made a film about
Julius (A Union Man), got to know some wonderful people and
musicians, and played for people on both coasts and in between. When Julius
faced his final illness last in the summer of 2009, he did so with the love and
support from literally hundreds of people all over the world who knew of his
dedication, determination, and love for the struggle. Julius died on August 24,
2009, one week after his 93rd birthday, leaving me as a solo act. But he is and
will always be a part of my work and he has left an impressive body of work on
his own. See www.georgeandjulius.com for
more info about our work together.
As I write this in July 2010, I am
promoting both my new solo CD, Songs for Jules and Bruce, and the
veterans CD compilation Until You Come Home. You can find out
more about this compilation of songs that speak of the horrors of war and the
struggle of our military families at www.untilyoucomehome.com.
Gary & Toni Sager are from
Waverly, Ohio. They performed and did workshops for us at Dulci-More
Festivals 12-17, 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 18. Gary became interested in the Mountain Dulcimer in 1991 after
seeing David Schnaufer's "Fischer's
Hornpipe" video on
Toni has been playing the autoharp for
about eight 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 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.
Stringed Fantasy
Stringed Fantasy returns from the
Canton-Massillon and beyond area. Current members include Rosalind Wilson, Alma
Houston, Donna Johnston, Greg Zuder, Linda Hill, and
Sue Wheeler with hammered dulcimer, guitar, folk harp, violin, recorder,
accordion, percussion, etc. They enjoy playing Celtic, folk, civil war era, and
a variety of music. Several are Dulci-More members
and some are members of the Canton Folk Song Society. Sue and Roz started giving workshops at Dulci-More
Festival 2, and Stringed Fantasy has been with us for Dulci-More
Festivals 3-11, 14, & 15.
Adam Sutch
and Sutch Sounds will return this year from Daisytown
Sutch
Sounds performed at Dulci-More Festivals 12, 14, 15,
& 17.
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 now from Kent, OH
where he is part of FolkAlley.com and WKSU-FM radio. He was with us last year
for Dulci-More Festival 17.
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, Jim Stone,
Dulci-More
Members (Don Blair, Leanna
Dugan, Lynn McLeish, Jim Miller, Kathy & Richard Small), 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 18 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.
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.
Lynn McLeish
Lynn will have a selection of home made and other musical
accessories available for festival attendees. This is her third 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.
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 had been some of our major vendors for seven years in a
row. Since Ken passed away in 2011, Lois has been scaling back in her Mountz Gallery stock, but she expects to have some of the
T-shirts with her that she has designed for several years for our festival as
well as the beautiful T-shirt she has designed for Dulci-More
Festival 18. She is an active member of Dulci-More. 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 fifth 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.
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 fourth time at a Dulci-More
Festival.
Rick Thum builds the Rick Thum
Professional 17/17 hammered dulcimer in a design that is fully chromatic
without adding extra bridges. They can include dampers. He also carries some
accessories as well as his recordings. This is his first time at our Dulci-More Festival.
Sara Mullins expects to have an area with some of the CDs
she has made over the years with her various instruments. She has called them In
Company of Friends. She was a vendor with us for many years along with her
husband, Jack, until he passed away. We look forward to welcoming her back to
the festival.
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.
Dulci-More Festival for Schools
Thanks to generous contributions from Folknet
and Dulci-More, we will continue a
program for the tenth time this year in 2012. Dulci-More
will be able to take some of its performers out to local schools in order to give
performances. Each of the expected school performances will feature one or more
of the artists performing at Dulci-More Festival 18.
All students attending may receive a flyer for the festival. Our thanks go out
to Dulci-More member Chris Lydic for making
the arrangements for Cathy Barton
& Dave Para and Rick Thum to present programs at Damascus Elementary and Beloit
Elementary in the West Branch School
District.
Photo,
Audio, and Video Links currently known are available at:
Picasa Digital Photo Albums of Dulci-More Festival
14
Dulcimerica Video Podcasts
from Bing Futch
Use the search or go to the Archives for May 2008 and
June 2008
YouTube Search for Dulci-More with Various Videos by
Various Folks
You can find the one of the DPNews
Video Podcasts, Bing’s Dulcimerica Podcasts from the
festival, three submissions from Ian, and more using this link with
performances by several, interviews, and more.
Picasa Digital Photo Albums of Dulci-More Festival
13
Flickr Digital Photo Albums of Dulci-More Festival
13 from Lois Mountz
Flickr Digital Photos from Bing Futch including Dulci-More Festival 13
Video Podcasts
from Bing Futch with Ohio Parts 5 & 6 including Dulci-More Festival 13
Radio
Promotion
Special thanks go to Tom Ball of the Just Plain Folk
(previously a radio program and now a webcast at www.twistintomradio.com) for the support he has
shown us by having Bill Schilling and other guests on the radio show to help
promote Dulci-More Festival 6-17 as well as special Dulci-More events. For Dulci-More
Festival 18, Bill will be back again (now on the webcast)
with more live and recorded music from festival artists. The weekly show, which
features recorded music, the Mountain Rose report, and live music from guests
from the local area and beyond, with about 3 programs available at any time on
the web. Starting with Dulci-More Festival 9, Just
Plain Folk recorded a live interview for later broadcast as one of the
workshops at the festival. Since Dulci-More Festival
10 they have done two different workshop interviews each year. Maureen Sellers
even put out a CD with the material from her Just Plain Folk show. We expect to
continue this relationship for Dulci-More Festival 18
with two more workshop interviews.
Special thanks also go to Jim Blum who hosts folk
programming weekend evenings from 8:00 or 9:00 PM to Midnight or 1:00 AM on
WKSU-FM 89.7 in Kent for his regular announcements about Dulci-More
Festivals over all the years of the festival and special Dulci-More
events. The programs (along with performances from Kent State Folk Festivals)
are kept in archives at www.wksu.org
so that folks anywhere can enjoy them any time, and they can also be heard in
real time by people around the world with an internet connection. Jim Blum and
Matt Watroba (with us for Dulci-More
Festival 17) are also working with Folk Alley, with 24 hour a day internet folk
music programming. There is a link to it from the WKSU-FM website.
These people and others around northeast Ohio (and others
around the country and the world) do a great service to folk music by letting
people hear new and vintage recordings as well as live music over the air. Tom,
Jim, and Matt also are actively involved in promoting and producing live
performances by many artists at concerts and festivals. Beyond that, they also
give calendar listings over the air and in other formats telling where live
folk music is happening (like at Dulci-More
Festivals) to inform and remind the public of how great it is to hear this
music live. Their efforts help to keep folk music very much alive in Northeast
Ohio. We appreciate their efforts.
Cindy Harris has posted pictures from Dulci-More
Festival 4 at http://pages.prodigy.net/cah/dulcimore/
Contact Bill Schilling by e-mail.
Return to
Bill Schilling's Home Page.
Links to Other Home Pages Developed by Bill
Schilling
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Contact Information
Bill Schilling, Dulci-More Festival
Director
984 Homewood Avenue