I Can’t… I’m Going to Winfield
The Walnut Valley Festival draws thousands of people to Winfield, KS on the third weekend of September each year. Kansas’ biggest folk...
Old Time Jam
There's a new old-time music jam session in town, sponsored by the Kansas Bluegrass Association. It will be held once a month at the...
Making Time for Music
Is your schedule as busy as mine? Do you wake up realizing you haven't picked up your instrument for … days … weeks …??? It's so easy for...
Learning From Other Instruments
My first dulcimer teacher was my dad – a fledgling mandolin player. For the first several years that I played dulcimer, I didn't even...
12 Tips for Arranging on Mountain Dulcimer
Add Chords. Most music has chords written in. You simply have to find the best form of the chord to use to get the best sound &...
Pass It On
Traditions exist because one person teaches another person to value them and keep them going. As old-time musicians, there are many...