Springfield Area Arts Council’s 2026 Artist in the Park at Food Truck Fridays series is under way, with free entertainment ...
Dan Duggan won the National Hammer Dulcimer Championship in 1985 and became a fixture in Central New York's traditional music ...
ARLINGTON — An Arlington resident took over coordinating duties for the longest continuously running mountain dulcimer festival in the United States. In the process, she found a dulcimer maker right ...
Bluegrass superstar (it's kind of fun to have one of those these days, huh?) Billy Strings posted a photo of himself and some nasty-looking X-rays that came from an ill-advised bit of backstage ...
A group of students learn how to play the hammered dulcimer under the instruction of Chris Steiner at a church in Tipp City. A group of musicians are gathering in central Ohio this week to jam — but ...
Amir Amiri, a Montreal-based Iranian-Canadian composer and virtuoso player of the 72-string dulcimer-like santur, left his home country as a young man in 1996. He spoke to The Globe and Mail about the ...
In the broader context of Joni Mitchell’s legacy, we talk a lot about her prowess as a world-class songwriter, and for good reason. It’s often easy to forget that there were a few instruments that ...
To be fully transparent, this was initially going to be a very different essay. I first set out to chronicle Joni Mitchell’s transformation from a folk visionary to a jazz voyager; a story of ...
Australian Open racket stringers work behind the scenes at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne. Photograph: Charlie Kinross/The Guardian There would be no Australian Open were it not for the work undertaken ...
Does string theory—the controversial “theory of everything” from physics—tell us anything about consciousness and the human brain? If you're enjoying this article, consider supporting our ...
As Benjamin Barker’s wooden hammers dance across the 125 strings of his dulcimer, classical melodies fill the sanctuary at St. George the Martyr Anglican Church in Simpsonville. At the same time, his ...