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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.
Opryland USA (later called Opryland Themepark and colloquially "Opryland") was a theme park in Nashville, Tennessee.It operated seasonally (generally March to October) from 1972 to 1997, and for a special Christmas-themed engagement every December from 1993 to 1997.
A tour to promote the album, the Old Highway Tour, was announced before the album's release and featured stops in Washington, D.C., Pittsburgh, Chicago, Cincinnati, Nashville, Cleveland, and New York City. [15] As with The Hillbilly Thomists, Holy Ghost Power reached near the top of the Billboard bluegrass chart and attained the number five ...
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The word dulcimer originally referred to a trapezoidal zither similar to a psaltery whose many strings are struck by handheld "hammers". [1] Variants of this instrument are found in many cultures, including: Hammered dulcimer (England, Scotland, United States) Hackbrett (southern Germany, Austria, Switzerland)
The "museum" opened on June 22, 1916 (the same day as the band's first concert, 83 years later). The exhibit consisted of a fire which caused widespread chaos and confusion. The following day, the museum was closed (hence the name of the first album).
The festival has been influential in sustaining and reviving numerous folk dance traditions in New England. As a social dance festival, it is a community experience, the largest in New England of its kind, [1] with about 5,000 combined admissions in the festival's four session periods. It is the inspiration for other similar traditional dance ...
His Dulcimer Heritage album comes with a book featuring all of the tunes on the album transcribed by Nicholas Hawes in standard notation. In addition, a collection of his tunes was published in 1987 as Tunes for the Hammered Dulcimer, As Played By Paul Van Arsdale with transcriptions by Jean Lewis. The book contains 36 tunes, including some of ...