Hurrah for Dulcimers

Thanks to everyone - instructors, participants, Jim Hall (sound), helpers, local artists, and concert attendees. It was a full day with traditional music galore. Learning is what keeps on young. Dulcimers can be quite simple or there can be new techniques to learn, new tunes, and more combos with other instruments for new sounds.

More pictures will be up on the web soon. The main group photo is there. This was year #10. It's also my husband and my 10th anniversary this year (in November). Terry has been the #1 helper for all that goes on before the event and for helping at the event.
It was great to see some new faces and returning folks, too. It's good to see on the Evaluation forms when people respond to the question What did you like most about Dulcimer Day? and they respond Everything. It wasn't just one person with that response.
Duluth showed off with some nice weather for the day and yes the Coppertop Church has been a great home for the festival - even with the blip this year of the broken partition door. I hope people did enjoy the dulcimer classes but also took the opportunity - if they wanted - to try the ukulele or the Shape Note singing intro classes. Over the years, this festival has had autoharp, mandolin, fiddle, banjo, clogging, tin whistle, bodhran drum, harmonica, percussion, kantele, harp, music theory - but it was a first for those two workshops. I always like to try new things, too.
I also now have completed teaching the intro to the dulcimer classes at 10 libraries in NE Minnesota. The last bunch in Grand Rapids were terrific.
As a Northland business, I do appreciate the business from local customers as well as web customers. I have plenty of instruments in stock by different makers and in different price ranges. Instruction books, cases, strings, tuners are also in stock. I'll be updating the website this weekend with some new items - cajon drum, wrist rests, dulcimer magnets on wood cookies, and a few other things.
Now that the weather is often nicer - you don't need to only play music indoors.