Dulci-More:
Folk & Traditional Musicians
Updated March 20, 2006
Digital Photo Albums of
Dulci-More
Dulci-More Members Performing at Damascus
United Methodist Church
November 2004
Dulci-More: Folk & Traditional Musicians
is a club that started in January 1993, at the First United Methodist Church of
Salem. The purposes of the club are to have fun with folk-style music and to
share that music with others. The club meets at 7:00
pm on the first Tuesday and Third Tuesday (note: it was the third
Wednesday until January, 2000) of each month just off the sanctuary in the
Unity Classroom of the First United Methodist Church of Salem, 244 South
Broadway, Salem, OH 44460. All levels of acoustic instrumentalists and singers
are always welcome at the meetings to jam, to learn, to listen, or to perform.
Call ahead if you are coming from far away since performances or special
meetings may be scheduled a few times a year on
regular meeting nights.
Dulci-More Thirteenth
Anniversary Concert
Dulci-More: Folk & Traditional Musicians presented their Thirteenth Anniversary Concert at 2:00 PM on Sunday, February 12, 2005 in the Sanctuary of
the First United Methodist Church of Salem, 244 South Broadway, Salem, OH 44460
for free to an audience of at least 180.
The concert featured ensemble
selections by Dulci-More and solo or small group numbers by a few of our
members. The songs in this program were united by a
“Water” theme. The audience wasencouraged
to sing along on many familiar songs and some that are not so familiar.
Individual Dulci-More members sing and/or play mountain dulcimers, hammered
dulcimers, guitars, autoharps, mandolins, banjos, fiddles, cello, bass,
harmonicas, recorders, flutes, jug and more. About 20 members are planning to
perform.
The concert also featured the
fifth public performances by some members of Dulci-More Little Eagles, a group of about ten United Local
Elementary students who have been playing mountain dulcimers in an after-school
program led by Dulci-More members since autumn 2003.
The First United Methodist
Church of Salem is located at 244 South Broadway in Salem.
The main parking lot for the church is most easily reached
by taking East Alley from Pershing Street
between Broadway and Lundy. 1) Those coming into town from the west on State
Street (State Route 14) can stay on State
Street to Broadway in the center of downtown Salem.
Turn south (left) at the traffic light on Broadway for one block to a four way
stop at Pershing (the black stone church visible ahead on the left is it). Turn
east (left) on Pershing for half a block to a south (right) turn on East Alley
(with a sign for the Salem Historical Society and a smaller one below it for
the First United
Methodist Church)
and from there into the church parking lot. There is also on street parking on
Broadway and in other parking lots nearby. 2) Those coming into town from the
east on State Street (State Route 14) are not permitted to turn south (left)
onto Broadway in the center of downtown Salem. Thus, they should turn south
(left) at the traffic light on South Lincoln for one
block to a traffic light at Pershing. Turn west (right) on
Pershing and continue for two and one half blocks (past the four way stop at
Lundy, but before the four way stop at Broadway) to a south (left) turn on East
Alley (with a sign for the Salem Historical Society and a smaller one below it
for the First United Methodist Church) and from there into the church parking
lot. There is also on street parking on Broadway and in other parking
lots nearby. 3) If coming from the north on US 62, do not take the bypass.
Instead continue straight and that will be North Lincoln.
Continue straight south on Lincoln through the traffic light at State Street
(State Route 14) onto South Lincoln for one block to a traffic light at
Pershing. Turn west (right) on Pershing and continue for two
and one half blocks (past the four way stop at Lundy, but before the four way
stop at Broadway) to a south (left) turn on East Alley (with a sign for the
Salem Historical Society and a smaller one below it for the First United
Methodist Church) and from there into the church parking lot. There is
also on street parking on Broadway and in other parking lots nearby. 4) If
coming from the north on State Route 45 continue straight rather than taking
the bypass and that will be North Ellsworth. Continue on Ellsworth through the
traffic light at State Street
(State Route 14) onto South Ellsworth for one block to a four way stop at
Pershing. Turn east (left) on Pershing and continue for one
and one half blocks (past the four way stop at Broadwy,
but before the four way stop at Lundy) to a south (right) turn on East Alley
(with a sign for the Salem Historical Society and a smaller one below it for
the First United Methodist Church) and from there into the church parking lot.
There is also on street parking on Broadway and in other parking lots nearby.
5) If coming from the south on State Route 45, do not take the bypass, but
continue straight and that will be South Lincoln.
Continue on South Lincoln to a traffic light at
Pershing. Turn west (left) on Pershing and continue for two
and one half blocks (past the four way stop at Lundy, but before the four way
stop at Broadway) to a south (left) turn on East Alley (with a sign for the
Salem Historical Society and a smaller one below it for the First United
Methodist Church) and from there into the church parking lot. There is
also on street parking on Broadway and in other parking lots nearby.
Since its founding in January
of 1993, Dulci-More has met twice a month to enjoy playing and singing. The
group averages over two performances a month for festivals, fairs, schools,
churches, clubs, nursing homes, and others. Its members come from Northeast
Ohio, Pennsylvania, West
Virginia, and beyond. Dulci-More will present
Dulci-More Festival 12 over Memorial Day weekend at Boy Scout Camp McKinley in
Lisbon with workshops on many instruments, singing, and other subjects at all
levels and concerts by many recording artists and nationally known and local
performers. The group has been presenting a local concert series for over four
years, and the next performance in the concert series will be on Friday, March
24, when Autoharp Master Bryan Bowers, will return for a performance 7:30 PM concert in the Salem Historical
Society Meeting Room.
No tickets or reservations are needed for this concert. There is no charge. Everyone is
welcome to attend. Cookies and punch will be served
during intermission. For more information or directions, contact Bill Schilling
at 330-332-4420
or bill@dulcimore.org or check on the web at
www.dulcimore.org or at www.billschilling.org for more information about the
club.
Dulci-More Potluck Jams
Dulci-More: Folk & Traditional Musicians
meets on a weekend afternoon twice a year for jamming throughout the afternoon
and evening with a break in the early evening to share a potluck dinner and fun
visiting time with some of our members from farther away or those with other
activities who cannot get to our regular meetings. To find out if there is one
presently scheduled, go to performances
for more details. The most recent one scheduled is for Saturday, March
5, 2005. More information can be
found in Dulci-More Notes.
Dulci-More Workshops and
Concerts Featuring Special Guests
Dulci-More: Folk & Traditional Musicians
has also decided to sponsor occasional guest artists to present their music to
our members and the community in general.
Bryan Bowers will be featured in a 7:30 PM concert on Friday, March 24, in the
meeting room of the Salem Historical Society at 208 South Broadway in Salem
(across from City Hall). The entrance to the meeting room is through the back
door on East Alley. The concert is sponsored by
Dulci-More.
Bryan Bowers is probably best known
as an autoharp player, and as such, he has helped to inspire most of the
current generation of autoharp players who use the instrument for instrumental
solos as well as vocal accompaniment. In typical performances he will have
about 5 autoharps (tuned diatonically in different
keys), and may also play mandolin, and mandocello. He
will play instrumentals, accompany his singing with the instruments, do some a
cappella singing, and tell some stories (maybe with instrumental background).
He will certainly give the audience a chance to join in including some old call
and answer songs he learned from field workers and gandy
dancers while growing up in Virginia
in the 1940s. He now lives north of Seattle, Washington.
Bowers has a dynamic outgoing personality and an uncanny
ability to enchant a crowd in practically any situation. His towering six foot
four inch frame can be wild and zany on stage while playing a song like `Dixie'
and five minutes later he can have the same audience singing `Will The Circle
Be Unbroken' in quite reverence and delight.
Bryan’s sixth
recording has just been completed with some of Nashville’s
best musicians accompanying him, and it should be available at the concert. He
has put out an instructional video on autoharp playing and 5
audio recordings for Rounder/Flying Fish from 1974-2000. In 2003, Bowers
gathered 55 of the best autoharp players in the world to record a 3 CD set, Autoharp
Legacy, with 64 tracks of autoharps (often accompanied by other instruments
and singing). For nearly three decades, Bryan Bowers has been to the autoharp
what Earl Scruggs was to the five-string banjo. He presents instrumental
virtuosity combined with warmth, eloquence, expression
and professionalism.
Suggested donation at the door is $10.00 per person ($5.00
total for all the children in a family) or $8.00 for Historical Society or
Dulci-More members. Refreshments will be provided
during the intermission. He presented a concert and workshop in January 2002
for Dulci-More at the Salem Historical Society, a concert at the Kent Salem
Lecture Hall in February 2003, and a concert at the Salem Historical Society in
March 2004. Contact Bill Schilling at 330-332-4420, bill@dulcimore.org, or check
www.dulcimore.org for more information.
The Salem Historical Society is located at 208 South
Broadway, Salem, Ohio 44460.
That is one block south of State Street
(State Route 14) in Downtown Salem. For eastbound traffic on State
Street, turn right onto South Broadway for one
block, left onto Perhing for half a block, and right
into East Alley (there is a sign for the Historical Society there). Since a
left turn onto South Broadway is not permitted for westbound traffic, those
coming from the east should turn south onto South Lincoln for one block, and
west onto Pershing for two and a half blocks to East Alley. Parking is
available in the First United Methodist Church of Salem parking lot adjacent to
the Historical Society. There is also parking along South Broadway and in
nearby public lots.
Mark Alan Wade was
scheduled to appear in concert in the Sanctuary of the First
Presbyterian Church of Salem starting at 7:30
PM on Saturday, April 2, 2005.
However, a spring blizzard caused the performance to be
postponed to a later date yet to be set. Dulci-More performed a free
concert that evening for those who had come out to hear Mark. Check for more
information about the rescheduled date when we get more information.
Tina
Bergmann and Bryan Thomas presented a concert in the Lecture Hall on the
Kent Salem Campus at 7:30 PM on
Tuesday, November 15. Bill Staines presented a concert on Wednesday, November 3, 2004 in the Sanctuary of the First United Methodist Church
of Salem. Bryan Bowers gave a concert on Saturday, March 27, 2004 at the Salem Historical Society Meeting Room. Susan
Trump did a concert for us at the Kent Salem Lecture Hall on Monday, April 26,
2004 and a workshop onTuesday, April 27, 2004. Bill Staines did a concert on Wednesday,
October 1, 2003 at the Kent
Salem Lecture Hall. Stephen Seifert did workshops and a concert on Wednesday,
September 10, 2003 at the
Kent Salem Lecture Hall. We brought Bryan Bowers back to Salem for a concert on Monday, February 24, 2003 in the Lecture Hall of the Kent Salem Campus. Madeline MacNeil appeared at Kent Salem on Thursday
evening, October 17, 2002,
and she was joined by Guy George for several
selections and Bill Schilling for one song as she played piano. The fifth one
was our second one with Patty Looman, this time (as before) accompanied by Marilyn & Tom Lashuay
and Bill Schilling for the concert
on Thursday, May 9, 2002. It
was the first event cosponsored by Dr.
Ann Waters of the Kent Salem Music Department, and it was
held at the Kent Salem Lecture Hall. The fourth one was Bryan Bowers from north
of Seattle, Washington on Tuesday evening, January
29, 2002. Bryan also
gave an autoharp workshop on Wednesday evening, January 30, 2002 at the home of Bill Schilling at
330-332-4420. The third one was singer/songwriter Susan Trump from New
York State on Friday, October 19, 2001. The Bryan
Bowers and Susan Trump concerts were held at the Salem
Historical Society. The second of these special events featured Pat Travis with Bill Matlack
from Pittsburgh, PA.
Pat accompanies their varied repertoire with guitar, and she is
known as a Singer/Songfinder for her efforts
to find special songs that will work well for her or for adding in Bill, her
husband. The workshops and concert were on Saturday, November 11, 2000. Our first guest artist was Patty
Looman on Saturday,
March 18, 2000, who presented old time repertoire from her home
state of West Virginia. The Pat
Travis with Bill Matlack and Patty Looman events were held at the
First United Methodist Church of Salem.
Dulci-More Festival 12
Dulci-More Festival 12 will be held on Memorial Day Weekend, May 26-28,
2006. Check the
link above for the most current information..
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Dulci-More Festival 10 was on Memorial Day Weekend 2004, May 28-30, 2004. Evening concert and
workshop presenters included Doofus with Neal & Colleen Walters from
Greencastle, PA and John & Heidi Cerrigione from
Ellington, CT specializing in Old Time music and more with vocals, autoharps,
mountain and hammered dulcimers, guitars, banjos, bass, and more; Guy George and Tull
Glazener from Concord, Ohio and Indianapolis,
Indiana playing original and traditional tunes with hammered dulcimer and
mountain dulcimer and maybe adding, saxophone, whistle, steel drum, and
accordion; Madeline MacNeil
from Berryville, Virginia singing with an incredibly clear voice and
accompanying herself on the hammered and mountain dulcimer (as well as being
Publisher and Editor of Dulcimer
Players News); Mustard’s Retreat with Michael Hough and David Tamulevich from
Ann Arbor, MI singing and playing originals and other songs and telling stories
accompanying themselves with guitars, bass, harmonica, and mountain dulcimer; Mark Wade from Hilliard, Ohio
playing hammered dulcimer (and Mark was the 1998 National Hammered Dulcimer
Champion) and possibly more; and Bob Zentz from Norfolk, Virginia singing and playing
several of the 30 or so instruments that he has been performing with for over
30 years and singing some of the songs he has written. Bill Schilling was again the performing emcee for the concerts. Members of Dulci-More did opening sets for each of the evening concerts. Mini-concert
and workshop performers included Mountain
Marge Diamond from Elyria, Ohio with mountain dulcimer; The Groovin’
Grandpas ’n’ Ma from Northeastern, Ohio playing as a harmonica ensemble
with bass, chord, and chromatic harmonicas; Humours ’n Hammers with Jan Douglass, Janet Harriman, Lois Mountz, and
Joyce Strohecker centered in Salem all playing hammered dulcimers and adding
more at times; Susie Large from
Marengo, Ohio singing and playing guitar for the old country songs and others; Mike Lenz from Suffield, Ohio playing
guitar (and maybe mandolin, banjo, and more) and singing blues and maybe more; Lesley and Pauline Miller from Bowling
Green, Ohio playing mountain and hammered dulcimers; Linda Sigismondi from Gallipolis, Ohio singing and playing mountain
dulcimer, guitar, and more and doing original and traditional material; Stringed Fantasy from Northeast Ohio
with Sue & Steve Wheeler, Roz Wilson, Connie
Webster, Gene Johnson, Alma Houston, Mary & Rod Thompson, Christina Kambrick, and Donna Johnston singing and playing a wide
variety of instruments; Stings ’n Lace
with Donna Johnston, Mary Thompson, Sue Wheeler, and Roz
Wilson from Northeast Ohio with Renaissance era music on Strings and woodwinds;
Sweet Sounds with Pat Carnahan from Pekin, Ohio and Sue Sabatino from Summitville, Ohio singing
and playing mountain dulcimers, hammered dulcimer, whistles, harmonica, and
more; Trillium with Susan Weber,
Walt Campbell, and Beth Hyland from the Cleveland, Ohio area where all are
songwriters and guitarists who blend voices, guitars, harmonica, and percussion
in a new group; and; Alice Whitehill from Hookstown,
Pennsylvania who sings and plays mountain dulcimer (and maybe other instruments)
and is often accompanied by her husband, Earl, or others. Alice Whitehill had items for sale from Stitches & Strings. Rick
Long joined us from Tennessee with his Ringing Strings bowed
psalteries. Guy George also had a variety of instruments and
accessories. Lois & Ken
Mountz from The Mountz Gallery in Salem had mountain and hammered dulcimers and
accessories. Many of the other artists offered their products at the
registration area. Other regular
activities at Dulci-More Festivals included such things as Open
Stages, Clubs Open Stages, Gospel Sing, Non-Denominational Worship Service,
Name that Old-Time (or Other) Tune Contest, Song Circles, Jamming,
and More. The host and engineer of the Just Plain Folk
Radio Program from WAPS-FM in Akron were back for a second year to do two
interviews as featured workshops to let people see how live radio (on tape
delay) is done. Dulci-More Members provided food service at reasonable
rates during the festival with meal and snack items available. Dulci-More
Members also were in charge of many other things during the festival
including registration, sound, and more. Dulci-More T-shirts,
sweat shirts, and other logo products were also available. This year, some of
the artists were also involved in the second year of Dulci-More Festival for
Schools, a program allowing local students to learn more about folk music. Dulci-More
Festival for Schools is made possible by generous
donations from Folknet, Dulci-More, and
United Local Elementary School.
Dulci-More Festival 9 was on Memorial Day Weekend 2003, May 23-25, 2003. Evening concert and workshop presenters
included Kendra Ward & Bob
Bence with Mike and Pamela Spence Allen from Bidwell, Ohio with others for the Contra
Dance on Friday evening and for a concert; Armor & Sturtevant from
Erie, Pennsylvania; Lorinda Jones from Rineyville,
Kentucky; The Valley Mountain
Boys from Northeastern Ohio; and Bob Zentz from Norfolk, Virginia. Bill Schilling was again the performing emcee for the concerts. Mini-concert
and workshop performers included AbNormal Sines from Dayton, Ohio; Mountain Marge Diamond from Elyria, Ohio; Joanne Fox from North Canton, Ohio; Mac Kelly from Salem, Ohio; Susie
Large from Marengo, Ohio; Northern
Cross from Akron and Louisville, Ohio; Out
of the Blue from Akron, Ohio; Linda
Sigismondi from Gallipolis, Ohio; Stringed
Fantasy from Northeast Ohio; Sweet
Sounds from Pekin and Summitville, Ohio; Tim Wallace from Elyria, Ohio; Alice Whitehill
from Hookstown, Pennsylvania; members of the Psst Storytelling Guild; and members of Dulci-More. Kathy Leek also presented a mini-concert, and she and her husband, Jerry had items
for sale from The Old Tyme Music Shoppe. Alice Whitehill also had items for sale from Stitches & Strings. David
Lynch also had a booth with his
handcrafted instruments and accessories as Sweet Wood Instruments.
Many of the other artists offered their products at the registration area. Other regular activities at Dulci-More
Festivals included such things as Open Stages, Clubs Open Stages,
Gospel Sing, Non-Denominational Worship Service, Name that Old-Time (or Other)
Tune Contest, Song Circles, Jamming, and More. Dulci-More
Members provided food service at reasonable rates during the festival with
meal and snack items available. Dulci-More Members also were in charge
of many other things during the festival including registration, sound, and
more. Dulci-More T-shirts, sweat shirts, and other
logo products were also available. This year, some of the artists were also
involved in a new Dulci-More Festival for Schools program allowing local
students to learn more about folk music. Discount coupons good for families were given to the students. Dulci-More Festival for
Schools was made possible by generous donations
from Folknet, The Salem Renaissance
Committee, and Dulci-More.
Dulci-More Festival 8 was on Memorial
Day Weekend 2002, May
24-26, 2002. This year’s festival started
off with a contra dance on Friday evening with Mud in Yer Eye providing the music and Margaret Glenn calling
the dances. Both the band and the caller are based in
the Cleveland area. The Saturday and Sunday evening concerts featured Aubrey Atwater
from Foster, Rhode Island with original and traditional folk music presented
with voice, mountain dulcimer, guitar, five string banjo, and pennywhistle; Mark
Dvorak from Brookfield, IL singing and playing blues, folk songs,
children’s songs, and familiar songs from various sources using guitar, 12
string guitar, and 5 string banjo; Guy
& Sharrie George with Demetrius Steinmetz from Concord, Ohio playing original and
traditional tunes with hammered dulcimer, saxophone, whistle, steel drum,
guitar, and bass; Mustard’s Retreat with Michael Hough and David Tamulevich from Ann Arbor, MI singing and playing originals
and other songs and telling stories accompanying themselves with guitars, bass,
harmonica, and mountain dulcimer; and Silent Lion with John and Barbiel Saunders from Chardon singing and playing original
and traditional songs with guitar, bouzouki, banjo, and mandolin. Bill
Schilling was once again the performing emcee for the concerts. All of the
evening concert performers also presented workshops during the weekend.
Mini-Concerts and Workshops were presented by AbNormal Sines; Mountain
Marge Diamond; Joanne Fox; Vici Gombaski;
The Harmony Girls (Susan Weber & Beth Hyland); Cindy Harris and Rebecca Heath; Jon Mosey; Rev. David Nikkel; Linda Sigismondi; Stringed Fantasy; Sweet Sounds;
Alice Whitehill; Psst
Members; and Dulci-More
Members. Other regular activities at Dulci-More Festivals were also
included such as Open Stages, Clubs Open Stages, Gospel Sing,
Non-Denominational Worship Service, Name that Old-Time (or Other) Tune Contest,
Song Circles, Jamming, and More. Special thanks are extended to Bill Schilling, to Jim Stone, to Folknet, to Rod Thompson, and to the Mixed-Up Strings of
Summit County for use of Sound Equipment.
Information below about other previous festivals
may give more of an idea of what the festivals are like.
Dulci-More: Folk & Traditional Musicians
presented its seventh festival on Memorial Day Weekend 2001,
May 25-27, 2001, with Concerts, Workshops, Mini-Concerts,
Open Stages, Clubs Open Stages, Gospel Sing, Non-Denominational Worship
Service, Name that Old-Time (or Other) Tune Contest, Song Circles, Jamming, and
More. We started out on Friday evening with a potluck dinner,
structured jam sessions, and the Friday Evening Concert including The Salem
Jubilee Chorus with traditional barbershop harmonies and singer/songwriter Tim Wallace from Elyria
with guitar. Featured Performers for the Saturday Evening
Concert were Pam Weeks
from Maine with contra dance fiddle tunes, mountain dulcimer, and vocals; Hal Walker from Kent with
traditional and original vocals, guitar, harmonica, and more; Mark & Roger Wade from Texas and Marysville, OH
with hammered dulcimer, guitar, and more by the 1998 National Hammered Dulcimer
Champion; and Michael Johnathon from Lexington, KY with original and
traditional vocals, guitar, and more as heard on his National Public Radio
program The Woodsongs Old Time Radio Hour.
Featured performers for the Sunday Evening Concert were Jeremy Allan Kittel
and Jesse Mason from Saline, MI with celtic fiddle
and guitar from the 2000 US National Scottish Fiddle Champion and Doofus
with Neal & Colleen Walters from Greencastle, PA and John & Heidi Cerrigione from Ellington, CT specializing in Old Time
music and more with vocals, autoharps, mountain and hammered dulcimers,
guitars, banjos, bass, and more. Bill
Schilling was again the performing emcee for the concerts. The evening
concert performers also presented Workshops during the days on Saturday and
Sunday. Mini-Concerts and Workshops were presented by Mountain Marge Diamond; Guy & Sharrie
George; Rev. Mac Kelly; Lewis & Davis; Judith
Minogue; Donna
Missigman, Linda
Sigismondi; Stringed Fantasy; Sweet
Sounds; Pat Travis with Bill Matlack; Alice Whitehill; Psst Members (including Georgia Smith and Dorothea
Smith as well as Bill Schilling);
Dulci-More Members; and More. Other
workshops featured other Dulci-More
members and friends of the festival such as Festival Vendors.
Featured performers in the
festival's first six years have included: AbNormal
Sines; Ann &
Phil Case; Bill & Hazel Westfall and friends (Edie Nail, Banjo Jan Von Rommondt, and Amy Michaels); Bill
Schilling & Folks (with Carol Ellis, Marilouse
Zarnosky, and others listed here); Bill Schilling, Linda Sigismondi, & Marge
Diamond with Songs from Canal Days; Bill
Schilling with Carol Ellis; Billie Westenfelder
& Ed Mills – Part Time Pleasure; Bob
Lewis, Caller Don McCoy and E-Z Duz
It Band; Greg Candel; Images; Jerry Rockwell; Jim and Dave; Linda
Sigismondi; Lois Hornbostel;
Madeline MacNeil; Mark & Roger Wade; Matthew
Abelson (with Tim Wallace); Michael Angelo; Mountain Marge Diamond; Northern Cross;
The Old Timers; Part Time Pleasure Hammered Dulcimer Band; Pat Travis with Bill Matlack;
Robert Samels
& Clayton; Steven K. Smith; Susan Weber; Threes
Co.; Tim Wallace; and
Whistler's Lane; The Whitehills;
and a special Friday evening presentation of Bill
Schilling's Slides, Songs, & Stories. Mini-Concert
and Workshop presenters have included many of the above as well as Chris Wagner, Cindy Harris, Dave
Shucavage, Lower Lights, Mac Kelly, Mary Ann Johnston,
Mike Lenz, Out of the Blue, Pete & Emery, Rose Jennings, Sally Ringland, the Smith Brothers, Stringed Fantasy, Sweet Sounds, Vici Gombaski, Walt Campbell,
Members of Psst Storytelling Guild (including Georgia
Smith, Dorothea Smith, and Denise Sybelnik
as well as Bill Schilling), and many other Dulci-More members.
More information about location, schedule,
performers, activities, etc. is posted at the Dulci-More Festival Home Page.
Dulci-More Performances
Since forming in January of 1993, Dulci-More has
averaged over two performances per month for civic groups, nursing homes,
churches, schools, coffee houses, festivals, and others including opening for
Bill Staines at the Morley Performing Arts Pavilion in Mill Creek Park in the
summer of 1996. The club has also been involved in an autoharp recording
project for the Stephen Foster Museum in Pittsburgh and others. There are over
100 members in the club. Anywhere from six to thirty members may sign up for a
given performance. Depending on which members perform, there may be singing,
fretted dulcimers, autoharps, guitars, hammered dulcimers, harmonicas,
whistles, flutes, recorders, fiddles, mandolins, banjos, bass, bowed psaltery,
cello, keyboard, percussion instruments, jug, or others. Contact us to find out
about performances for your group or event.
Dulci-More
Public Domain Songbooks
The Dulci-More Public Domain Songbooks are
designed to allow people a chance to learn and to play some of the songs that
Dulci-More plays regularly at meetings and events. The arrangements give lyrics
and melody lines in standard musical notation. Accompaniment chords are
included. Numbers for the melody string(s) for fretted dulcimers are also shown
(usually for dulcimers tuned in a DAA tuning). Click here to find out more about the general songbooks or here to find out more about the autoharp songbooks.
Use this link to open a printable Order Form (in a new window) to send
along with your order.
Dulci-More Little Eagles After
School Program
This program is continuing during the 2004-2005
school year. Norma Firth, Lois Mountz, Sue Sabatino, and Bill Schilling are
working with the program this year.
In October 2003, Dulci-More started working on an
after school program at United Local Elementary School with students from
grades 4, 5, & 6. In January 2004, students in those grades and grade 3
were again invited to join the program, and over 15 had taken part by early
February 2004. The program was made possible when Dulci-More Executive
Committee member Lois Mountz heard that Principal Ruth Ann Rinto
was looking for new after school programs and contacted her about this. Members
of Dulci-More were aware that one of the teachers at United Local had obtained
a grant enabling her to buy and build cardboard dulcimer kits and then to work
with all the third grade students on playing them in 2003. Permission was
obtained to use those dulcimers. Dulci-More members Norma Firth, Doris Tolley, Bonnie Lutz, and Bill Schilling quickly agreed to
join Lois Mountz in leading the group. The group was asked if
they would like to make their first public performance at the Dulci-More
Eleventh Anniversary Concert on February 5, 2004, and at least 12 of the students were there to open each half of
the concert (with Boil Them Cabbage Down and with Rainbow Waltz
with Dulci-More members joining them on Rainbow Waltz after they had
played it through a couple of times), and they did great. Once again,
Lois Mountz had been thinking ahead, and she had asked for funding from
Dulci-More to get T-shirts for the students. A quick discussion let us know
that sports teams and others at United Local Elementary are known as the Little
Eagles, and our group then became the Dulci-More Little Eagles with the great
drawing and lettering and design done by three generations of the Mountz family
including Paige (one of the Little Eagles), her father Steve, and her
grandmother Lois. The program continued through the school year, and we heard
the Dulci-More Little Eagles in performance again at Dulci-More Festival 10.
Members of the club would probably be available to join in partnership with
other local schools for similar programs.
Links
Mary Ann Johnston,
a Dulci-More member, is also the owner, publisher, and editor of the quarterly
magazine, Autoharp Quarterly, which is based in New Cumberland,
West Virginia. Check the Autoharp Quarterly home page at http://www.autoharpquarterly.com to
find out more about the magazine, autoharp happenings, or subscriptions. E-mail
Mary Ann at maryann@autoharpquarterly.com.
Another Dulci-More member with her own home page which
describes her dulcimer playing, books, and recordings is Linda Sigismondi. Her
home page is at http://lindasigismondi.com
for those who want to know more.
Dulci-More members Marcy and Dale Tudor have a
great farm vacation bed and breakfast called Weatherbury Farm in Avella, PA.
Find information about it at www.weatherburyfarm.com
to plan your stay southwest of Pittsburgh.
Sheep Fest started there in 2002. Plans are being made to have Folk Arts on the
Farm there, which started a concert series and jam sessions in 2004 with Bill
Schilling and will continue in 2005 with long term
workshops on various instruments. Nigel Tudor also has his forge on the farm.
His web page is at http://www.blacksmith-hand-wrought-forged-iron.com.
Dulci-More shares a link with the community which is our home base. Click here to find out
more about Salem, OH.
Dulci-More is an organizational member of Folknet: the Northeast Ohio Folk & Traditional Music
and Dance Society, We have cosponsored events with Folknet,
and our members have helped at Folknet events. Go to www.folknet.org to find out more about Folknet. Its monthly newsletter, Continuum, lists hundreds
of acoustic events in the northeast Ohio area and beyond each month. Folknet regularly sponsors concerts, house concerts,
educational events, dances, and other activities. Membership forms can be
printed out from the web site.
We also share a link with the Mountain Rose Concert Series
centered at the Roy Smith Shelter in Fred
Fuller Park
in Kent, Ohio.
They offer second Sunday concerts most months by folk artists from our area and
beyond in a wonderful small room setting as well as running or supporting
festivals in the area. Find out what's on the schedule
by checking their home page. They also are responsible for the weekly radio
program, Just Plain Folk on WAPS-FM, 91.3, The Summit in Akron.
They have been generous in their support of Dulci-More by
having Bill Schilling in 2000; Michael Johnathon and
Bill Schilling in 2001; Guy George, Demetrius Steinmetz, and Bill Schilling in
2002; Bill Schilling and Linda Sigismondi in 2003, and Bill Schilling in 2004
on the program the weekend of Dulci-More Festival to help us let more people
know about the festival. In 2003 and 2004, they also later broadcast the
interviews they had done at our Festivals. They also regularly have as guests
on the radio program and in the concert series many of
the same artists featured at Dulci-More Festivals. Just Plain Folk
can be heard on Tuesday evenings from 7:00-9:00 PM. The webcast
can be heard at the same time on www.wapsfm.com anywhere.
Contact
Bill Schilling by e-mail.
Return to Bill Schilling's Home Page.
Links to Other Home Pages Developed by Bill Schilling
Contact Information
Bill
Schilling
984 Homewood Avenue
Salem, Ohio 44460-3816
330-332-4420
bill@billschilling.org
bill@dulcimore.org