Links of Interest

Tune Sites

ABC Notation Sites

Music Theory Sites

General Sites

Arts Organization Sites

Publications Sites

HD Builder-related Info

HD Player Sites

Other Player Sites

Dance Sites

Folklore Sites

Festival Sites

Rick's Hammered Dulcimer Pages - lots of good info and links here.

Hammered Dulcimer Festival/Workshop Sites

Rick's Dulcimer Festival/Workshop Links Page
For other (i.e., not dulcimer) festivals, click here

Tune Sites

Henrik's Irish and Scandinavian Traditional Tunes and Songs (ABC format)

Music GIFs and MIDI Files for Hammered Dulcimer and Other Instruments

The Fiddler's Companion   An index of tunes.  Some have ABCs.

The Session  Tunes in ABC format

Irish Traditional Music Tune Index - Alan Ng's Tunography

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ABC Notation Sites

ABC notation is a text-based music notation language which is easily sent via email.  ABC notation programs to transform the text-based notation into standard music notation are available as shareware.

The ABC Home Page

ABC Software Packages

ABC Tune Finder

Musica Viva website

The Session  Tunes in ABC format

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Music Theory Sites

Beginning Modal Harmony

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General Sites

The Kitchen Musician's Hammered Dulcimer Site

Folk Notes Hammered Dulcimer Page

Dwight Diller: Why Old Time is Different from Bluegrass

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Arts Organization Sites

Tennessee Arts Commission

Allied Arts of Greater Chattanooga

Nonsuch Dulcimer Club - UK

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Hammered Dulcimer - Player and Recording Sites

Karen Ashbrook

David James - Tiompan Alley Music

Ken Kolodner

Dan Landrum

Jem Moore

No Strings Attached

Marcy Prochaska

Cindy Ribet

Steve Schneider

Susan Sherlock

Rick Thum

Trantham Family Music

Fred Woodley - Matt-Wood Dulcimer

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Other Instruments - Player and Recording Sites

Laura Boosinger - Music of the Southern Mountains Singer, banjoist. (NC)

The Elftones   - Mara Shea (fiddle) and Roger Gold (guitar)

Mara Shea (fiddle)

Dan Evans - DanSing Music  (The "other" dulcimer, UK)

Robert Force  (Also, the "other" dulcimer, WA)

Lois Hornbostel  (And yet again, the "other" dulcimer, NC)

Dwight Diller (Old-Time banjo, WV)

Joe Newberry (Old-Time banjo, guitar, fiddle, song, NC)

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Dance Sites

Chattanooga Traditional Dance Society (Chattanooga, TN)

Triangle Country Dancers (Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, NC)

Scottish Country Dance Info
SCOT (NC)

English Country Dance Resources

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Publications

Dulcimer Player News

Fiddler Magazine (Based in Nova Scotia)

Old-Time Herald Magazine (Based in Carrboro, NC)

Irish Music Magazine (Based in Dublin)

The Living Tradition Magazine (Based in Scotland)

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Folklore & Ethnomusicology Sites

American Folklore Society

Tennessee Folklore Society

UNC Curriculum in Folklore

The Society for Ethnomusicology

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Festival Sites

Appalachian/Celtic Festival & Highland Games (Ringgold, GA)

Blairsville Scottish Festival (Blairsville, GA)