Tis the season for the giving of gifts. I was thinking about this after a conversation I had with a good friend this week. He mentioned ...

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 ...

Maylee Samuels has been playing the dulcimer for 30 years, and in advance of a local dulcimer St. Patrick's Day-themed workshop set for March 14, she offered me a lesson. "It's one of those things ...

Debby Roe probably didn’t realize that learning to play the dulcimer would draw her into a larger community of like-minded people. After Roe attended a dulcimer festival, her cousin, Joel Miller, ...

When Jim Vander Woude was 15, he built a 12-foot sailboat with his stepdad and stitched the sail with help from his mom. He loved sailing in the handcrafted vessel so much, he "wore it out." After he ...

Newbies and old hands at dulcimer playing flocked to the Perkins building on the EKU campus Saturday for a dulcimer festival, celebrating all things dulcimer. The mountain dulcimer, for the ...

Kara Barnard, at right, leads a Kara’s Silver Strings class at Mill Race Center, Columbus, Ind. Photo Provided Creative powerhouse and entrepreneur Kara Barnard doesn’t make a regular appearance at ...

Beginners will learn basic strumming and songs in a session scheduled from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Intermediate and advanced players will meet from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. The workshop will include ...

Before setting out to tell a jaunty story about people who like to play the dulcimer, you could go on the Internet and read up on dulcimers and their Appalachian origins. You could even look on ...

A classically trained pianist who attended the renowned Juilliard School in New York, Rosamond Campbell admittedly once had a dismissive attitude toward folk and rock music. But in 1977, when ...