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 ...

Jimmy Fallon finally got the chance to break out the dulcimer he always keeps behind his Tonight Show desk just in case any of his guests are adept at playing the instrument — such as Amanda Seyfried.

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 ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — Just because it’s summer, doesn’t mean the learning should stop. Pellissippi State Community College is offering noncredit lifelong learning classes to the public this summer ...

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 ...

Amanda Seyfried reveals that she was studying/prepping to play Joni Mitchell in another biopic years before Cameron Crowe's ...

When records manager Don Gillette retired from the Kansas City District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, at the end of 2022, he did not stop playing his beloved hammer dulcimer. Gillette proved pivotal ...

For experienced guitarist Rex L. Mann, 56, it's a way to share his talents with less advanced players and to develop his skills at arranging music. For 10-year-old Nolan Rush, a choir member at Frost ...

SOUTH SHORE Nestled between the Ohio River and U.S. 23 sits a shed producing mountain dulcimers at the hands of Jeff Lambert. “All the sawdust work is done in here,” Lambert said, as he unlocked the ...