Bluegrass Jam
First Friday of each month
Enon, Virginia, USA
First friday of each month at 7-10 pm
Held at Rivermont Presbyterian Church in Enon, Virginia
(in Chesterfield County)
Commonwheel Arts Festival
September 5 - 7, 2009
(Labor Day Weekend)
Manitou Springs, Colorado, USA
Commonwheel Website
Held at Manitou Springs Memorial Park
198 Old Mans Trail
Manitou Springs, Colorado
- 10 AM to 6 PM.
- 100 artist's booths & 12 food venders
- Kid's Booth: The kids can be creative in our Kid's Art Activities Corner, have their faces painted, create balloon animals with Magic Man or make giant bubbles with Jim Jackson and Birgitta DePree from Manitou Art Theatre.
- Live Entertainment all day - Jazz, Reggae, acoustic and original music can be heard throughout the three days.
- Free Admission!
SamFest -
Sandpoint Acoustic Music Festival
Sept 2, 2006
Sandpoint, Idaho, USA
Phone: 281.370.9495
E-Mail
Peggy Carter
Camping is available for $10 per night at the Bonner
County Fairgrounds. The campground offers electric
hook ups, water fill-up, and dump station.
To reserve a spot call 208.263.8414.
Held at the Sandpoint Church Of The Nazarene, 477954 Hwy. 95 North. Registration is $5, and will open at 8:30 AM. Workshops will start at 9:00. Anyone who would like to teach a workshop can email
Peggy Carter.
All acoustic musicians are invited. $5 general admission + $15 for each workshop. Enjoy jamming and a concert. There will be informal jamming throughout the day, with food available on site. A free open-mic concert at 7:00 will climax the festivities. The church invites any and all to attend services on Sunday. Acoustic music will be presented in both services.
Lodging arrangements have been made at the Motel 6 at 477255 Hwy. 95 North. (Call 208.263.1883 for reservations and ask for Neal.) The church and motel are very close, and are both actually in Ponderay which is just North of Sandpoint.
Longs Peak Scottish/Irish Festival
September 10 - 13, 2009
Estes Park, Colorado, USA
Phone: 970.586.6308
Longs Peak Website
Held at Estes Park Stanley Fairgrounds
always the weekend after Labor Day.
The festival starts with the 7:30 PM Thursday Tattoo. The field is open Friday from noon until 5 and 9 AM - 5 PM Saturday and Sunday. The parade is Saturday morning at 9:30 on Elkhorn Avenue. Evening activities Friday and Saturday at 7:30 are: The Colorado Celtic Concert, the Folk Concert, and Tattoo Estes. The 9 p.m. Ceilidh (a Celtic version of a New Year's Eve party!) starts after the other events end and the celebrating continues into the wee hours of the next morning. Sunday evening marks the end of the festival with the Honored Guest Banquet, a superb meal complete with dress kilts, suits, evening dress attire for the ladies, a cash bar and live entertainment.
American Folkways Festival
Always Labor Day Weekend
Sept 5 - 7, 2009
Clintonville, Pennsylvania, USA
Phone: 814.385.6040
American Folkways Festival Website
American Folkways Festival
I-80 Exit 4
PO Box 334
Clintonville, Pennsylvania 16372
- Always Labor Day Weekend
- 10 AM to 5 PM Daily
- High Quality Arts & Crafts, Demonstrations
- Booth spaces start at 10x12
A Wide Array Of Country Foods, Pioneer Camp Exhibits, Entertainment, Theme Show - Pioneer Dress. The only craft show known to have a one hour documentary filmed at their location. The festival takes place in a beautiful wooded setting decorated with many rock gardens filled with antiques and flowers. The show has something for everyone: men, women, and children. Continuous entertainment including country & bluegrass bands, DULCIMER music, and illusionists. Exhibitions include covered wagons, Indian tepees, etc. All set in a Pioneer atmosphere.
Greenwood Furnace Folk Gathering
Sept 11 - 13, 2009
Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, USA
E-Mail:
Linda Littleton
Phone: 814.643.6220
To register for a campsite in the park, call the park at 814.667.1800 and let them know you are a festival participant. Note that you need to make two separate calls for festival registration and camping.
Camping space is limited so call ASAP.
To register, contact the Huntingdon County Arts Council
or call 814.643.6220.
The cost for the weekend is $55.
For Saturday only, it's $45.
The fee includes all workshops, jams, concerts, and the
square dance. A meal package is available for $25 and
includes all meals Saturday plus breakfast Sunday.
Held at the Greenwood Furnace State Park, an absolutely gorgeous location between State College and Huntingdon in central Pennsylvania, on the Mifflin County border. ( on Rt. 305 off Rt.26 North of Huntingdon, South of State College, and east off Rt. 655 ). Organized by Simple Gifts and the Huntingdon County Arts Council.
This is the weekend that the Cook Forest festival used to be held. For those of you who remember and miss that event, come to this instead. It's held at a state park and will have the same open, informal feel. You can camp onsite, and we'll have plenty of workshops, jams, dancing, and concerts. For all instruments and levels. Instructors and performers TBA.
This is a gathering for folk musicians of all instruments and levels, with workshops, jams, concerts, and a square dance (where you can either dance or play). There's stuff for non-musicians too, plus the park has swimming (spring fed lake with sand beach) and many miles of hiking and mountain bike trails, so bring the family.
Web Site:
Greenwood Furnace Website
Fraley Mountain Music Gatherin'
Always Labor Day Weekend
Sept 5 - 7, 2009
Olive Hill, Kentucky, USA
Phone: 800.325.0059
Email
Carter Caves
Carter Caves Website
Carter Caves State Resort Park
344 Caveland Drive
Olive Hill, Kentucky 41164-9032
Traditional musical instruments such as the dulcimer, fiddle, and guitar are used to tell stories about life long ago along the foothills of Eastern Kentucky.
Wednesday night is a free concert in the campground. Thursday open stage concert at the amphitheatre. Friday afternoon open stage, banjo, and dulcimer gathering. Friday night evening concert in the amphitheatre. Saturday afternoon open stage, ballads, storytelling, fiddle, and guitar gathering. Saturday night we have an evening concert. Sunday morning gospel music in the campground. Admission for the concerts and jam sessions range between $3 and $10 per person.
Held at the Historic Hilltop House Hotel.
Learn to play the hammered dulcimer or hone your skills on another instrument in an ensemble workshop at the Upper Potomac Dulcimer Fest.
Intensive three-day workshop with open mikes, showcase concert, jam sessions and over 30 workshops for hammered dulcimer players of all levels, with rental instruments available. The workshops take place in an intimate retreat setting at the Historic Hilltop House Hotel in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.
Featured teachers and performers in 2006 will probably include Xiao Xiannian and Bamboo Breeze, Karen Ashbrook, Ken Kolodner, Maggie Sansone, Jody Marshall, Paul Oorts, Dan Landrum, Nick Blanton and more TBA.
Blue Grass Creek Dulcimer Festival
Sept 11 - 13, 2009
Evansville,Indiana, USA
Main E-Mail
Or
Alternate E-Mail
Held at Camp Reveal
1040 E. Boonville New Harmony Road
Parking $7.50 for both days.
All proceeds going to Camp Reveal.
Festival & Concerts Free
Blue Grass Creek Website
In celebration of the Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield. KS, the Great Plains Dulcimer Alliance (based in Wichita, Kansas) hosts an all day picnic with workshops and music the weekend before Winfield. The dulcimer club sponsors this free & open to the public event, which has taken place at Island Park in Winfield, for many years. For more information, check out their
website - and click on events.
Acoustic music: workshops, jamming, picnic, evening concerts, and open mike.
They are looking for donations for the Drawings which are held in the evening during the concert.
Thanks so much.
Please send donations to:
Jan Jennings
1743 Tiara Pines
Derby, KS 67037
The Golden Aspen Motorcycle Rally
Sept 16 - 20, 2009
Ruidoso, New Mexico, USA
Phone: 800.452.8045
More information on the
Rally Website
Golden Aspen Rally Association
P. O. Box 1467
Ruidoso, NM 88355-1467
Held at the Ruidoso Downs Sports Theatre Complex.
- 2007 AMA Nationall Road Riding Convention
- 86,400 ft Trade Show
- Creedence Clearwater Revisited Live in Concert
- Two Parades!
- Field events and games
- Bike Judging
- King and Queen Contest
- Poker Run
National contests for hammered and mountain dulcimers and other instruments.
Workshops, concerts, all-night jams, arts & crafts fair.
Info:
Bob Redford
PO Box 245
Winfield Kansas 67156
Cares Music Jam
Sept 17, 2009
Rao Musunuru, M.D. Enrichment Center
12417 Clock Tower Parkway
Hudson, Florida 34667 USA
Phone: 716.676.2260
E-Mail:
Clark Parry
Instruments:
Guitars, fiddles, hammered dulcimers, mountain dulcimers, mandolins
We meet every Thursday at 3:00 till 6:00. Our mission is the preservation and performance of country and old timey music and dance.
Cares Music Jam Website
Harmony Harvest Dulcimer Festival
Sept 18 - 20, 2009
Lancaster, Ohio, USA
E-Mail:
Gary Sager
(put "Festival" in the subject line.)
Or Phone: 740.941.1271
Harmony Harvest Website!
- Held at Fairfield County Fairgrounds
- Workshops
- Vendors
- Jamming
- Bean and pot luck dinners
- Open stage
- Hymn sing
- Raffle.
- Camping available
Art Festival of Old Town
Sept 19 - 20, 2009
San Diego, California, USA
Phone: 480.968.5353
E-Mail:
Frank Maguire, Festival Director
Old Town Website
Located on San Diego Avenue, between Conde Street and Twiggs Street in the Historic Old Town State Park. This is a two-day Festival celebration featuring fine art, continuous live music, a variety of international foods and an interactive family area featuring hands-on art activities and creative challenges for children. 200 selected artists and crafts people from across the nation will show and sell the latest in lifestyle, one-of-a-kind artwork including paintings, sculpture, ceramics, fashion, furniture and jewelry. There are seven hotels within a short walk of the festival.
More info:
Frank Maguire, Festival Director, P. O. Box 3258, Tempe, Arizona 85280-3258
Melodies and Musing
Sept 23 - 26, 2009
1500 Sunset Drive
Guntersville, Alabama, 35976
E-Mail
Susy Quiggle
Phone: 256.571.7734
- Workshops
- Concerts
- Merchant Vendors
- Food Vendors
- Camping
- RV Park
- Childrens Activities
- Shopping Nearby
Come and join us for this intense 3-day mountain dulcimer workshop and 1-full-day Appalachian festival with performances and festivities celebrating the music and literature of the Southern Appalachian region. Our classes will include all levels. The Festival will include performances by workshop participants and our Dulcimer professionals. $125 full event/ $95 two days of workshops plus festival. Come join the fun!
Instruments: Mountain dulcimers and Accoustic string instruments
Southeast Texas
Dulcimer Festival
Cancelled in 2008 due to floods.........
Silsbee, Texas, USA
Phone: 409.385.8977
Butch Suitt
308 Pinewood Drive
Silsbee, TX 77656
Located 20 minutes north of Beaumont on US HWY 96.
Festival will be held at the First Baptist Church, 845 HWY 96 South in Silsbee (Just north of Casa Ole restaurant), and the Community Center located next door.
Workshops and concert.
Lots of jamming, a free open mic concert Friday night and the Grand Concert, also free, Saturday night featuring our talented instructors. Lots of nice door prizes.
Held at the Second Baptist Church located at 4680 Walnut Grove Road in Memphis, Tennessee. Exceptional musicians will be teaching classes in hammered dulcimer, mountain dulcimer, and mandolyn.
The two day festival will offer workshops, concerts, vendors, jams, food, and friendship.
