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DULCIMERVILLE
P.O. Box 907
Bryson City, NC 28713

Email: Loisdulc@frontier.com

FROM A DULCIMERVILLE PARTICIPANT: "A great inexpensive vacation, and the bonus was I brought home the ability to enjoy music much more!" 



2013 DULCIMERVILLE

Mountain Dulcimer Week

Monday, June 3 thru Saturday, June 8, 2013

at the YMCA Blue Ridge Assembly, Black Mountain, NC

Presented by Dulcimerville Productions, LLC

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DULCIMERVILLE is a six-day celebration of the Mountain Dulcimer, the sweet stringed instrument developed in the 1800s in our Southern Appalachian mountains. Our ongoing goal is to offer you the most exciting and high-quality dulcimer learning vacation anywhere! Our management has 27 years of experience producing dulcimer events and more years loving and playing the instrument. We hire great player-teachers who carefully craft classes that help dulcimer players of all skill levels enjoy this lovely-sounding and user-friendly instrument. This year we are also offering a course in which you can build your own top-quality dulcimer! (Building course filled now - waiting list.).The evenings abound with fun activities, which you can check out on our "Special Features" page.

Never Played a Mountain Dulcimer before? No experience is required for our Beginner/Advanced Beginner course. It has two instructors and one is there specifically to help you solidly master the "basics" and discover the delightful music you can make! See the details on our "Classes" page. (We even have a couple of good 'loaner' dulcimers you can borrow.)

All of this takes place in a friendly and scenic setting at the YMCA Blue Ridge Assembly's mountaintop conference center.

Use the tabs at the top of this page to view all the fun and learning you can have. We invite you to join us for DULCIMERVILLE June 3-8, 2013!

A Video about Dulcimerville

made by Marie Shelton in 2010. Enjoy!

Some Dulcimerville music...

from some of our instructor-performers, who play many styles from traditional Appalachian to contemporary, to international music on the versatile mountain dulcimer. Videos vary in recording volume; please adjust and enjoy! These and the rest of our artists will perform in our Tuesday & Wednesday night concerts, which are open to the public!

Here's Dulcimerville staff member EHUKAI TEVES performing his original blues song "COAL TOWN BLUES" © 2013 Ehukai Teves. This was 2 weeks after winning the Union Grove, NC dulcimer championship with a very traditional version of the fiddle tune "Soldier's Joy."  Ehukai will lead our Dulcimer Orchestra and will teach 2-hr. electives in "Playing in 8 Keys without Re-tuning," "Intros, Fills & Outros" and "Playing Mountain Dulcimer with Other Instruments."

Here's Dulcimerville's LOIS HORNBOSTEL playing mountain dulcimer on Mike Fenton's beautiful waltz, "POLLY SWALLOW."  Lois will be teaching 2-hr. elective classes in "European Folk Music for Mountain Dulcimer" and "The Magnificent Capo."

For a sampling of a beautifully-played traditional fiddle tune on mountain dulcimer, here's DON PEDI playing "COTTON EYED JOE" with fiddler Bruce Green. You can learn Don's style in our "Traditional Music for Mountain Dulcimer" course and he will teach 2-hr. electives in "Sacred Songs," "Traditional Fiddle Tunes," and "Ballads."

LINDA BROCKINTON is loved for her gentle style of playing the mountain dulcimer and her great teaching. Here's a new video of her playing "MORNING HAS BROKEN." Linda will be teaching our Progressing Intermediate course, and a mini-course in "Basic Fingerpicking."

"BLACK MOUNTAIN RAG" on mountain dulcimer! Black Mountain, NC is where DULCIMERVILLE is located! This video is of Staff member STEPHEN SEIFERT - who will be sharing his beautiful playing technique with Intermediate-into-Advanced and Advanced students in our morning courses, tandem-taught with the wonderful Neal Walters. Stephen will also teach classes for students of various skill levels in 2-hr. electives on "Reading Hands" and "Improvising from the Heart." 

Here's our sweet singer and lovely player SARAH MORGAN performing "MY DEAREST DEAR." Sarah will be teaching 2-hr. elective classes in "Singing with the Mountain Dulcimer," "Playing Music for Weddings" and "Simply Hymns." Sarah is the current National Champion Mountain Dulcimer Player!

Here's BING FUTCH performing a juicy little medley of fiddle tunes often played on the mountain dulcimer! Bing will teach our Early Intermediate course as well as 2-hr. electives on "Mountain Dulcimer Blues" and "Rockin' & Rollin' with the Mountain Dulcimer."

Here's the multi-talented "DOOFUS" band performing the old-time song "GOING ACROSS THE SEA." NEAL WALTERS (vocal/banjo here) will tandem teach our Intermediate-into-Advanced and Advanced courses, along with 2-hr. electives in "Out-of-the-Ordinary Waltzes" and "Just Plain Chords." HEIDI & JOHN CERRIGIONE (mountain dulcimer & guitar) will teach our Beginner/Advanced Beginner course and coaching sessions for its students, plus an elective on "Ensemble Playing" for mountain dulcimer players. COLEEN WALTERS and her fine bass playing will be indispensable musically and will be in the 2-hr. elective on "Playing Mountain Dulcimer with Other Instruments."

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