Coming Friday-Saturday, Oct. 13-14, 2017
in Milford, Connecticut
- The Nutmeg Dulcimer Festival is held every October in southern Connecticut. We are a Friday-Saturday festival, with a full program of workshops for hammered and mountain dulcimer players of all levels. In addition, concerts both evenings are open to the general public.
- We believe that hammered dulcimers and mountain dulcimers are among the world's most wonderful musical instruments. They're fun to play, and fun to listen to. They belong in both folk music and popular music. Our mission is to bring dulcimers and dulcimer music into public awareness.
2017 featured artists:
Ted Yoder
In 2010, Ted won the National Hammered Dulcimer Championship.
Last year, Ted's video of "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" went viral, gathering 95,000,000 views, and earning him a worldwide fan base. This is his first trip to the Northeast since then.
Jody Marshall
Jody has been a featured hammered dulcimer performer and teacher at festivals nation-wide, coming from her base near Washington, DC. Her repertoire spans Celtic, medieval, Renaissance, rock music, and more.
She's taught at Nutmeg before, and now we're delighted to have her back as a featured artist.
Sofie Reed
She's a Swedish-born roots-blues, folk-blues one-woman band with a dulcimer, harmonica, and stomp box. Based now in Colorado, Sofie does much of her performing in Europe. You've never seen anything like her.
2017 workshop leaders include:
Don Briggs, Rich Carty, Cliff Cole, Linda Collins, Christine DeLeon, Sam Edelston,
Ron Ewing, Jeff Goldenberg, George Haggerty, Mack Johnston, Melanie Johnston,
Sandy Lafleur, Tom MacKenzie, Don Moore, Paul Mueller, Brett Ridgeway,
Laurel Schwartz, Barb Truex, Susan Trump, Carol Walker, Jon Weinberg, Dwain Wilder