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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.
Stephen Seifert (born September 29, 1973) is an American folk musician and virtuoso Appalachian dulcimer player. [1] Seifert is internationally known and is a concert headlining performer. He was adjunct instructor of Mountain Dulcimer at Vanderbilt's Blair School of Music from 1997 to 2001.
The mountain dulcimer often conjures up rustic mountain life and simple traditional music from the American South in a bygone era. But that’s not the whole story. From a group of countercultural youth living in the Santa Cruz Mountains in the late 1960s to Joni Mitchell's influential Blue album in the early 1970s, the mountain dulcimer found a new voice in a "new land": California.
Lynn McSpadden, in his book Four and Twenty Songs for the Mountain Dulcimer, [18] states that some players "tilt the dulcimer up sideways on their laps and strum in a guitar style." Still other dulcimer players use a fingerstyle technique, fingering chord positions with the fretting hand and rhythmically plucking individual strings with the ...
Schnaufer was an award-winning dulcimer player and session musician. He moved to Nashville, Tennessee, during the 1980s, and in 1995, accepted a position at Vanderbilt University's Blair School of Music, where he taught dulcimer as an associate adjunct professor. He established himself as one of the country's premier dulcimer players.
Bing Futch (b. Hollywood, California, December 16, 1966) is a musician whose primary instrument is the mountain dulcimer.In 1986 he co-founded Christian techno-punk trio Crazed Bunnyz along with Marc "Gadget" Plainguet and Sean "Shaka" Harrison.
Jim Couza (April 27, 1945 – August 2, 2009) [1] was an American hammered dulcimer player.. He was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, United States, [2]. Couza was one of the early musicians at Tryworks Coffeehouse in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
Appalachian music is the music of the region of Appalachia in the Eastern United States. Traditional Appalachian music is derived from various influences, including the ballads, hymns and fiddle music of the British Isles (particularly Scotland), and to a lesser extent the music of Continental Europe. [1]