Happy New Year!

I just realized it has been quite awhile since I have posted to this blog.  Sorry to have completely missed wishing you well earlier this Holiday Season, but there is still time to wish you a very Happy 2014.  I know I for one am glad 2013 is finally coming to an end!  SO, HAPPY NEW YEAR! 

BTW, the Bellingham Dulcimer Club blog has moved.  To check out the revised and updated blog, click here.  Later . . .

Change of Concert Starting Time

Just learned that the Heidi Muller/Bob Webb concert at the Roeder on Tuesday evening, December 3rd, 2013, will, IN FACT, begin at 7:30PM.  Sorry about the "back and forth"!  Later . . .

UPDATE: Heidi Muller and Bob Webb Concert

Heidi's website now shows more accurate information regarding the upcoming visit of her and Bob Webb to Bellingham next month.  First of all, their concert is to begin a half-hour earlier than was originally stated,  7PM.  A $10 donation is also indicated.  To check out her website, click here. Later . . .

Heidi Muller and Bob Webb Concert

HEIDI MULLER & BOB WEBB Concert, Tuesday December 3, Roeder Home, 7:30PM. Heidi and Bob perform an eclectic mix of original songs, traditional tunes and contemporary instrumentals. From Charleston, West Virginia, their shows feature Heidi's songwriting and crystalline vocals backed by both on guitar and Appalachian dulcimer, and by Bob additionally on electric cello and mandolin. Co-sponsored by the Whatcom Family & Community Network, the Whatcom Home Made Music Society and the Bellingham Dulcimer Club.

Hard to Believe It's August Already

The summer is zipping past and it is indeed hard to believe it August already.  Well, I could not get to Kindred Gathering XXXIX, but I did get to last week's Bellingham Dulcimer Club meeting.  The Club is obviously thriving thanks to the efforts of Judith Akins, Louise Zimmerman and Darcy Fusch.  Good turn out and great music shared by all.  Hope to get back to another meeting some time in the future.  Later . . .

Kindred Gathering XXXIX

This year's Kindred Gathering XXXIX - aka KG39 - is in Sherwood, Oregon, from noon on Friday, 8/2/13 through noon on Monday, 8/5/13, at the Magness Memorial Tree Farm.  For more information, click here.

A New Way to Play

Back in 1985, long before the internet, when I began to learn to play the mountain dulcimer, I realized that the Dulcimer Players News was an invaluable source of dulcimer-related information.  There are very few back issues that I do not have, some of the first issues in the mid-70's being simple stapled-together mimeographed sheets.  To this day, the arrival of the latest issue via 1st class snail mail is a quarterly delight.  But enough of this.  The arrival of the Summer, 2010 issue (Volume 36, Number 3) of the Dulcimer Players News opened up, at least for me, a whole new way to tune and play the dulcimer. Within that issue of DPN, in an article entitled "1-3-5: A New Voice For Your Dulcimer", Merv Rowley explained what this was all about.  You can read Rowley's article by clicking "Expand" and then "mousing" over to "10-11" and "12-13" of the on-line display AFTER clicking  here .  This allows you to see pages 8 through 10 of the original DPN article.  Pretty interesting reading and included is the tab for the familiar tune "Take Me Out to the Ball Game".  There's lots more on-line information about this "new way to play" at  1-3-5 .  And now, at last, I have time to really concentrate on this approach to the dulcimer.  As I learn "hands on" more about it, I'll "share" my thoughts here within the blog.  Later . . .

It's Been Awhile

Greetings to All,

     Having recently relinquished my leadership role for the Bellingham Dulcimer Club, I now have the time - as well as the inclination - to return again to this blog.  Looks like "it's been awhile", like since September of 2011, since I have posted anything to it.  I'll start today to rectify that:  enlarging text to be more readable, adding links to upcoming "close-by" dulcimer-related activities, sharing of a "new" way to tune and play the mountain dulcimer, et cetera., et cetera., et cetera . . .   Later . . .