 | www.lindadan.com:
LINDA THOMAS AND DAN DELANCEY share this website as they do
their music. From the Kansas City area, they have performed
widely both in the U.S. and in Europe. Both are
published by Mel Bay Publications and both have won many awards.
They have recorded twelve albums together plus Linda has published
several instructional books with accompanying CD's for hammered
dulcimer and Dan has recorded a solo album that showcases his
exceptional guitar flatpicking skill. Their list of awards and
championships is impressive. They have been much help to us
throughout the history of Autumn Acoustics. |
| Those of you who play Mountain Dulcimer
may want to
check out Larry Conger's website for More Info on workshops, etc: www.LarryConger.com.
|
| Mike Anderson is
an award-winning educator and writer as well as PBS TV performer and
musician.
Visit him at
www.dulcimerguy.com
. We hope you met him
at
Autumn Acoustics
2007. Mike emceed our concert as well as performed
and taught workshops. He was a busy guy at Autumn Acoustics! |
| KENDRA WARD
is one of the most
respected and well-known Appalachian musicians. She and husband
Bob Bence will be with us in Hillsboro in 2006. Their website is
www.dulcimertimes.com.
Kendra's many recordings, instruction books and videos, and extensive
tour schedule have helped her carry her Appalachian heritage into the
future. She has appeared on stage with the Statler Brothers,
Debbie Reynolds, Bill Monroe, Allison Kraus, John Hartford, and a host
of others. In addition to the U.S., Kendra and Bob have also
toured England, Scotland, and Wales. |
| Gary Sager and his
wife Toni (www.prussiavalley.com)
are the owners of Prussia Valley Acoustic Music Shop in Waverly, Ohio.
In addition to building mountain dulcimers, Gary performs and teaches
at many festivals including the Great River Roads Festival. Toni
is an autoharp player and teacher. |
| ELI VALENCIA
from Fredericktown, MO,and
his brother and sister performed at
Autumn Acoustics during the day in 2005. A talented group of
kids! |
|
http://doofusmusic.com, Neal Walters' creatively-named website, offers a wide variety of
folk music options. He and his wife
Coleen are walking
encyclopedias of folk tunes! Not surprising since he is editor
of Music Hound Folk: the Essential Album Guide to Folk Music.
You can catch his CD reviews in DPN also. Neal and Coleen are
from Greencastle, PA. and were with us for Autumn Acoustics I and II.
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|
www.danlandrum.com
is the website of Dan Landrum, from Signal Mountain, TN.
He appeared at Autumn
Acoustics in 2003 with his remarkable Hammered Dulcimer style.
Dan was a featured soloist with Yanni in his recent "Ethnicity" tour.
Yanni says, "Dan Landrum is a hammer dulcimer virtuoso" and he
also is
now editor of
Dulcimer Players News which is featuring an
updated look these days! |
| Rick Thum
(www.rthum.com) both manufactures and plays hammered dulcimers,
traveling from his home in northern Jefferson County to festivals
all over the country. He has led our Friday
evening jam session several times as well as an impromptu jam
session at the end of the Sat. eve. concerts. Check out his website for
CD's, Tune of the Month Club, books, etc. His instruments will
be on display and for sale at Autumn Acoustics and he has graciously
donated a hammered dulcimer to our raffle. Thank you, Rick! |
|
www.chris-talley.com:
CHRIS TALLEY is now Mrs. Chris Talley-Armstrong, a 2003 summer
bride! By either name, she is a champion banjo and fiddle
player! Recently she has been organizing her own fiddle
contests for up-and-coming fiddlers as well as performing herself.
We are excited to have her back at Autumn Acoustics.
We hope you stopped by her vendor booth at Autumn Acoustics and
congratulated her on being both an Illinois State Fair Fiddle Champion AND Banjo
Champion! You may want to find out where her New Athens, Illinois,
music store is and stop by there, too.
Earl Armstrong
volunteered to teach
beginner guitar
classes in 2007--something requested by some patrons--and we hear they
went well! |
|
www.larryconger.com will take you to
Larry Conger's website. Larry--a graduate of the
University of Mississippi--is from Paris, TN, and is active in
teaching, performing, and building mountain dulcimers. Those who
attended his 2005 and 2006 workshops at Autumn Acoustics gave him high marks. His website is beautiful and
chock-full of information. |
| Jerry Rosa
of Rosa String Works comes
from the Rolla, Missouri, area. He plays and teaches bluegrass
mandolin and also operates a recording studio. His 2005 and 2006
mandolin workshops at Autumn Acoustics received high praise.
|
| Ken Jackson
is from Warrensburg, Missouri. He and his wife have attended
Autumn Acoustics several times in the past and we decided it was time
to put him to work teaching
harmonica. He has done this for
three years at StringFling, an old-time music festival held in Joplin,
Missouri. |
| Bud How
has earned a reputation as an excellent
mandolin player as he and his
family group play bluegrass gospel around the local area. Bud is
from Festus, Missouri, just down the road from Hillsboro. He has
been a part of Autumn Acoustics as a daytime performer in the past and
this year he will also be teaching mandolin also. |
| Doc Belcher
of Marion, Ohio, runs
www.1st-in-harmonicas.com
which is a primary internet reseller of harmonicas and harmonica
accessories.
Harmonica players will find his website of great interest! |
| DulcimerShofar.com (www.dulcimershofar.com/)
is an online store for people to learn and purchase
ethnic instruments. In addition to dulcimers, this site (run by
James Hsu) sells djembes, harps, lutes, ocaranias, cumbus, bodhran,
and other interesting and unusual instruments. |
| Janis Huff
is from Lonedell, Missouri. She has performed at many local
venues as well as at Mountain View, Arkansas. Janis has had a wealth
of experience and training as a protoge of Rick Thum. She
taught
beginning hammered dulcimer
classes for those who felt
they needed the basics before venturing onward. Janis and husband Spike
Huff operate Home Folks Acoustic Music House in Parkway, MO (near St.
Clair). They donated HD lessons and a Samick guitar to the
Autumn Acoustics raffle in 2007! Thank you, Spike and
Janis!!! |
| Bob Worley
taught banjo workshops at Autumn Acoustics
again in 2007.
He plays a mean bluegrass banjo and hails from the Pacific,
Missouri, area. Bob plays banjo for George Portz band. |
|
www.everythingdulcimer.com LOTS of dulcimer stuff--and its
FREE! Iron-on designs, info about festivals and instruments,
and music! Both mtn. and hammered dulcimers! Good events
listing, too. |
|
www.GilaMountainDulcimers.com A dulcimer site from
the Southwest. |
| www.dpnews.com Website
of the Dulcimer Players News
magazine. Editor is Dan Landrum who appeared at Autumn
Acoustics in 2003. Get a free CD with each issue of the
magazine! |
| www.folkfire.org
Website of FolkFire, St. Louis's Dance and Music Newsletter.
They featured our festival on the front page in October, 2007!
|
| www.songbirdhd.com
Visit
Chris Foss'
website. Chris and Melanie have moved from Hannibal to
Muscatine, Iowa. Their shop is now known as
'Round the Bend Music
Acoustic Folk Shop and he still makes those songbird
hammered dulcimers. |
| Don Pedi (www.donpedi.com)
has been an NPR radio host in Asheville, NC, since 1989. What a
service he provides for the preservation of the old Southern
Appalachian folk music! You will enjoy his website just as we
enjoyed his visit to Autumn Acoustics in 2004. His mountain
dulcimer style is truly unique. |
| Maureen Sellers,
from Indiana, has taught the Appalachian dulcimer to hundreds of
students in more than 16 states. She has written 9 or 10 books
using her "Simply" concept. Maureen is on staff at U. of
Louisville, Bellamine College Elderhostels, and Indiana U. Southeast.
Folks at Autumn Acoustics enjoyed her classes in 2005. |
| Cathy Barton and Dave
Para come from Boonville, MO. They play a variety of
old-time instruments focusing on historical themes and traditional and
folk music. They have performed on the
Delta Queen and
Mississippi Queen and have
released about a dozen recordings. |
| Karen and Chuck
Daniels have provided autoharp expertise at three Autumn
Acoustics festivals. Chuck's fix-it shop is always a favorite
and their unique performances are most entertaining. They come
from Mountain View, Arkansas, where Karen teaches autoharp in the
public schools. She has won Texas and International Autoharp
championships. |
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