It’s hard not to be charmed by the first image in Noelle Micarelli’s submission to NPR Music’s Tiny Desk Contest: a miniature mountain dulcimer sitting on a truly tiny desk, beside a small porcelain ...

DANVILLE — Twenty-five years ago this past summer, a group of dulcimer enthusiasts met in the Danville house of one of their members to share their love of the stringed instrument. What originally ...

Jon Potrykus and Friends are set to play June 24 during Tuesday in the Park. PINCONNING, MI — The Pinconning and Linwood Area Chamber of Commerce kicks off its summer concert series at 7 p.m. today in ...

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Dulcimers may not be the musical equivalent of Big Foot, but to some people, they're a bit of a mystery. The Chattanooga Folk School wants to change that. Saturday, the school will host Dulcimer Day, ...

MOUNT DORA — For Ruth Harnden, no musical note can what’s emitted from one of America’s earliest musical instruments — the mountain or Appalachian dulcimer. “It produces a sweet, easy, acoustic sound, ...

Moraine Valley Community College just may become the new Great Black Swamp. An annual event called the Great Black Swamp Folk Festival became legendary at Ohio State University by attracting thousands ...

A longtime music festival is ready to give up the folk for the 50th year. The Eagle Creek Folk Festival will ring in half a century Sept. 13 at Eagle Creek Park. The Indiana Folk Music Society will ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW — Student-centered instruction, afternoon concerts and daily jam sessions are some of the reasons the Ozark Folk Center State Park’s Hammered Dulcimer Workshop attracts instrumentalists ...

Elaine Weissman prepares for the Summer Solstice Folk Music, Dance & Storytelling Festival in Calabasas as if she were a general about to go to war. This year’s festival, running Friday through Sunday ...

Folk musicians Deidre McCalla from Atlanta and Kevin Roth from Point Loma will be sharing the stage in Poway’s Templars Hall on Friday night. McCalla is a Black, feminist singer/songwriter and ...