Wendy Grethen first touched the strings of a mountain dulcimer at a fair 27 years ago. She learned to play the Appalachian-region American folk instrument as a child in Illinois -- then stopped ...

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

When Helen Bankston first heard the mountain dulcimer playing on the streets of Asheville, North Carolina, she couldn’t have imagined that she and four other Baton Rougeans would form a society ...

What if for one day everything stopped, Los Angeles artist Brian Mallman wondered. And on that day, "we all just listened to the music." The result was Play Music on the Porch Day, created by Mallman ...

(WBIR-Gatlinburg) It's a musical instrument with a sound you'll never forget. The sweet music of the mountain dulcimer. It takes a steady hand and an artist's eye to create the musical instrument.

CARBONDALE — Kentucky musician Molly McCormack will perform songs on the mountain dulcimer at the Southern Illinois Learning in Retirement (SILIR) meeting at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 21. She will ...

Dulcimers have quite a following with folks from Southwest Ohio. Sweet strains of folk ballads, classical music — even swinging country and rock ‘n’ roll tunes — can be played on the four-string ...

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (KOLN) - In the 4-H/FFA Fieldhouse, sweet music floats above the creative projects and artwork. The strumming comes from a group of musicians that are based in central Nebraska ...

The soft thrum of thin strings flowed out of the Kansas Room as patrons and staff celebrated Kansas Day at the Hutchinson Public Library on Saturday. Patrons heard Daniel Kelley's "Home on the Range" ...