Basic Schedule for the 2017 Nutmeg Dulcimer Festival
Here's the basic layout. The specific workshop schedule is below that.
Friday schedule:
- 2:00 ... Doors officially open
- 3:30-4:30 ... Workshops F1
- 4:45-5:45 ... Workshops F2
- 5:45-7:30 ... Dinner break
- 7:30 ... Concert featuring the workshop leaders, followed by Jody Marshall (hammered dulcimer)
Saturday schedule:
- 8:30 ... Doors officially reopen
- 9:00-9:45 ... Gathering. Workshop leaders and featured artists briefly introduce themselves and their classes.
- 10:00-11:15 ... Workshops S1
- 11:30-12:30 ... Workshops S2
- 12:30-1:45 ... Lunch break
- 1:45-3:00 ... Workhops S3
- 3:15-4:15 ... Workshops S4
- 4:30-5:30 ... Workshops, jams, round robins, extra help for less experienced players. S5
- 5:30-7:00 ... Dinner break
- 7:00 ... Concert featuring Sofie Reed (mountain dulcimer), and then Ted Yoder (hammered dulcimer)
We have 3 tracks of hammered dulcimer (Beginner, Mid-level, and Advanced) ... 4 tracks of mountain dulcimer (Beginner, Novice, Intermediate, and Advanced) ... and a track of "other" workshops, which cover a wide range of topics. In every period, there's always a workshop suitable for every level of dulcimer player. But if you'd rather go off and jam with somebody, that's fine, too!
Food, clothing, and shelter: For meals, if you wish to stay "on campus," we bring in takeout orders that you can buy into. For clothing, well, Nutmeg has some of the best dulcimer festival T-shirts we've ever seen. And if you're traveling from out of the area, there's a special Nutmeg rate at the Hampton Inn, in Milford, less than a mile away.
Full Schedule - 2017 Nutmeg Dulcimer Festival
Time
Hammered Dulcimer
Mountain Dulcimer
Other
Friday
3:30–4:30
• Tools for Simplifying and Exploring – Paul Mueller (ALL)
• Syncopated Chording – Jon Weinberg (MID-ADV)
• Music Reading for Dulcimer – Melanie Johnston (BEG-NOV)
• Baby Steps to Fingerpicking – Carol Walker (NOV)
• Hornpipes – Susan Trump (INT-ADV)
• Pedals for Your Dulcimer – Jeff Goldenberg (INT-ADV)
• Being Viral – Ted Yoder (ALL)
• Open Jam – Mack Johnston (All instruments)
4:45–5:45
• Drop, Bounce, and Roll – Cliff Cole (BEG)
• Waltz Away the Hours – Tom MacKenzie (MID)
• Around the World On a Dulcimer – Paul Mueller (MID-ADV)
• Songs You Know – Carol Walker (BEG)
• Strumming and Flatpicking Made Easy – Susan Trump (NOV)
• Throw Away the Music – Barb Truex (INT-ADV)
• Dulcimer Orchestra – Mack Johnston (INT-ADV)
• The Singing Voice in All of Us – Christine DeLeon (All)
5:45–7:30
Dinner
7:30
Concert featuring the Workshop Leaders and Jody Marshall
Saturday
8:30
Registration Opens
9:00–9:45
Gathering
10:00–11:15
• Hammered Dulcimer 101 – Jon Weinberg (BEG)
• What Can You Do With a Song – Ted Yoder (MID)
• Pluck, Pick, and Stick – Jody Marshall (ADV)
• Mountain Dulcimer 101 – Laurel Schwartz (BEG)
• Singing With the Mountain Dulcimer – Sofie Reed (NOV)
• Playing in A – Sandy Lafleur (INT)
• Classical Dulcimer for Wascally Wabbits – Carol Walker (ADV)
• Ear Training for Everyone – Linda Collins (All instruments and/or voice)
11:30–12:30
• Hammered Dulcimer 102 – Cliff Cole (BEG)
• The 8-Note Miracle Cure – Brett Ridgeway (MID)
• Hand Separation – Jon Weinberg (MID-ADV)
• Mountain Dulcimer 102 – Melanie Johnston (BEG)
• Adding Punch With the Left Hand – Sandy Lafleur (NOV)
• DDD Bagpipe Tuning – Ron Ewing (INT)
• Blues Dulcimer – Sofie Reed (NOV-ADV)
• Laparoscopic Dulcimer Surgery – Dwain Wilder (ALL)
• Uke Can Do It – Christine DeLeon (All)
12:30–1:45
Lunch
1:45–3:00
• Chords Demystified – Jody Marshall (BEG)
• Making Practice Fun – Cliff Cole (MID)
• TED Tweaks – Ted Yoder (ADV)
• Easy Basic Chords – Linda Collins (BEG-NOV)
• Creating Music – Laurel Schwartz (NOV)
• Let Those Fingers Fly – Brett Ridgeway (NOV-ADV)
• 4-string Beyond DADD – Barb Truex (INT-ADV)
• Put the Tab in your Tablet – Melanie Johnston (All levels)
• Increase Your Stage Presence! – Sofie Reed (All instruments, any level)
3:15–4:15
• Songs You Know – Ted Yoder (BEG)
• Backup: Beyond the Basics – Jody Marshall (MID)
• French Canadian Music – Tom MacKenzie (ADV)
• Let's Rock! - Sam Edelston (BEG)
• EAA – George Haggerty (NOV-INT)
• Smoothing Out Your Playing – Linda Collins (INT)
• Two Divided by a Fifth – Jeff Goldenberg (INT-ADV)
• It Takes Two…… Mack and Melanie Johnston (All instruments, INT-ADV)
• Don't Fear the Sound System – Don Briggs (All instruments)
4:30-5:30
• Questions, Answers & Extra Help - Rich Carty
• Questions, Answers & Extra Help – Sandy Lafleur
• Songs of Appalachia – Susan Trump (NOV)
• Fast Jam - Tom MacKenzie
• Round Robin - Don Moore (All)
• Sing-and-Play-Along - Cliff Cole (All)
• Surviving a Jam – Brett Ridgeway (All instruments, all levels)
5:30–7:00
Dinner
7:00
Concert featuring Sofie Reed and Ted Yoder
(Note earlier 7:00 concert start time)
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