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Robert Force
Robert Force (born in Snohomish, Washington) is a performer and composer on Appalachian dulcimer. He is also a producer, and the author of ''In Search of the Wild Dulcimer'', ''Wild Dulcimer Songbook'', and ''Pacific Rim Dulcimer Songbook''. Biography Discography As principal recording artist Pacific Rim Dulcimer Project, Crossover, The Art of Dulcimer, When the Moon Fell on California, Manitou: In the Garden of the Gods, Did You As guest recording artist Hellman: Dulcimer Duets, Hellman: Dulcimer Aires, Ballads and Bears, Einhorn: Whole World Round, Stephens: Under the Porchlight As producer See also * List of Appalachian dulcimer players The following is list of musicians who play (or played) the Appalachian dulcimer as a primary instrument or who have used a mountain dulcimer in their work. Musicians who play the dulcimer as a primary instrument Musicians who play (or played) th ... External linksIn Search of the Wild Dulcimer- free online version of the book ...
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Snohomish, Washington
Snohomish () is a city in Snohomish County, Washington, Snohomish County, Washington (state), Washington, United States. The population was 10,126 at the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census. It is located on the Snohomish River, southeast of Everett, Washington, Everett and northwest of Monroe, Washington, Monroe. Snohomish lies at the intersection of U.S. Route 2 in Washington, U.S. Route 2 and Washington State Route 9, State Route 9. The city's airport, Harvey Airfield, is located south of downtown and used primarily for general aviation. The city was founded in 1859 and named Cadyville after pioneer settler E. F. Cady and renamed to Snohomish in 1871. It served as county seat of Snohomish County from 1861 to 1897, when the county government was relocated to Everett. Snohomish has a downtown district that is renowned for its collection of antique shops and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. History The Snohomish River, Snohomish River Valley was original ...
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Appalachian Dulcimer
The Appalachian dulcimer (many variant names; see below) is a fretted string instrument of the zither family, typically with three or four strings, originally played in the Appalachian region of the United States. The body extends the length of the fingerboard, and its fretting is generally diatonic. Name The Appalachian dulcimer has many variant names. Most often it is simply called a dulcimer (also rendered as "dulcimore", "dulcymore", "delcimer", "delcimore", ''etc.''). When it needs to be distinguished from the unrelated hammered dulcimer, various adjectives are added (drawn from location, playing style, position, shape, etc.), for example: mountain dulcimer; Kentucky dulcimer; plucked dulcimer; fretted dulcimer; lap dulcimer; teardrop dulcimer; box dulcimer; etc. The instrument has also acquired a number of nicknames (some shared by other instruments): "harmonium", "hog fiddle", "music box", "harmony box", and "mountain zither". Origins and history Although the Appalac ...
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Kicking Mule Records
Kicking Mule Records was an American independent record label, founded in Berkeley, California in 1971 by guitarist Stefan Grossman and Eugene "ED" Denson, formerly co-owner of Takoma Records. The company's name comes from the country blues sexual two-timing allegory "there's another mule kicking in your stall". During the 1970s, the company did much to popularize solo fingerpicking guitar, expanding the style with recordings of Scott Joplin rags, Beatles hits, big band tunes, and Turlough Carolan harp tunes. The label also released several similarly-styled banjo records. In the 1980s, Grossman left the label and Denson branched out to include many dulcimer releases as well as recordings by Charlie Musselwhite and Michael Bloomfield. In the early 1990s, Fantasy Records bought both Takoma and Kicking Mule from Denson and soon began to re-release selected LPs on CD. In 2004, all of Fantasy's labels were purchased by Concord Records which was renamed them as the Concord Music G ...
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Neal Hellman
Neal Hellman (born April 13, 1948, in New York, New York) is an American folk musician, music teacher, and performer of the mountain dulcimer. He has been active in performing, writing, teaching and recording acoustic music for the past thirty years throughout the United States and Europe. In collaboration with Joe Weed, Hellman wrote the score for Princess Furball, a children's video by Weston Woods which won a 1993 American Library Association Commendation. An original composition, written by Neal and performed by Jay Ungar and Molly Mason, is featured on the Ken Burns production "The Story of Susan B Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton" which was broadcast on PBS across the United States in the fall of 1999. He has written books on the Appalachian dulcimer, including ''It's A Dulcimer Life'', ''The Dulcimer Chord Book'', ''The Hal Leonard Dulcimer Method'', ''Beatles Dulcimer Book'' and ''The Music of the Shakers For Mountain Dulcimer'' on Mel Bay Publications. As founder, d ...
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Bill Caswell
Bill Caswell was a country music singer-songwriter and musician active since the early 1980s. Together with his wife Rosi Caswell, the duo from Bartlesville, Oklahoma perform on rare old style instruments including the ukelin, mandolin-guitar, bell-harp, and tremoloa. In the 1980s he performed his music on television in ''Hee Haw'' and on live radio in ''A Prairie Home Companion''. The two together performed at Dollywood in Gatlinburg, Tennessee for five seasons. Bill began his career in the early 1980s as a songwriting protégé of Rodney Crowell and developed a reputation as one of the best songwriters in the business. Working for Tree Record, as a staff writer. He co-wrote KENTUCKY HOMEMADE CHRISTMAS with Kin Vassy. Kenny Rogers included the song on his first Christmas album. It went "Platinum" in 3 weeks. His recent albums include Oklahoma Backroads' and Love Lost and Found'' In 1983, Bill Caswell appeared along with Crowell on the PBS music television program ''Austin ...
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List Of Appalachian Dulcimer Players
The following is list of musicians who play (or played) the Appalachian dulcimer as a primary instrument or who have used a mountain dulcimer in their work. Musicians who play the dulcimer as a primary instrument Musicians who play (or played) the Appalachian dulcimer as a primary instrument. * Richard Fariña * Robert Force. Pioneer of the standing up, overhand style of playing * Bing Futch won the "Best Guitar" (Solo/Duo) award at the 2016 International Blues Challenge while competing on the mountain dulcimer. He has released numerous albums, published instructional books for the instrument and performs regularly at festivals and music venues across the United States. He is from Orlando Florida. * Margaret MacArthur, folk music historian, musician and dulcimer instructor, introduced the mountain dulcimer to many folk musicians in the 1960s. * Guitarist John Pearse, an early British enthusiast of the mountain dulcimer, was one of the first to introduce the dulcimer to English ...
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American Folk Musicians
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Appalachian Dulcimer Players
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