Song List
Wildwood Flower
Soldiers Joy
Mississippi Sawyer
Lynchburg Town
Angelina Baker
Mister Moon
Rocky Top
Gray Cat on a Tennessee Farm
Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss
Bile Them Cabbage Down
Old Joe Clark
Tennessee Waltz
Amazing Grace
Forked Deer
Oh! Susannah
Waterbound
Sugar Hill
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
Joy to the World
Silent Night
Pretty Betty Martin
Okechobee Grass
Cucharin's Cross
Nail That Catfish to a Tree
Muss I Denn
Groundhog
Shaving a Dead Man
Beech Spring

• Don and Carolyn Wick played at the Scopes Trial Festival on the Rhea County courthouse square in Dayton, Tennessee, July 20-21 at the invitation of long-time bluegrass musician Tom Morgan.
• Mark Hardison did a concert August 3 on the courthouse square in Franklin, Kentucky. Don and Carolyn Wick joined him for a portion of the concert.
• Mountain Laurel will be playing every evening at the Wilson County Fair in Lebanon August 17-25.
• Sandy Conatser has been playing her dulcimer as a demonstrator at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum.
• Lee Rowe will be teaching an introduction to the dulcimer class at Nashville Tech. You can email Lee for more information! Registration and classes begin in late August.
• Registration for lessons with David Schnaufer through the Blair School of Music is scheduled for August 23-25. Contact Blair at 322-7659.

And the Winner Is!!!
Sarah Musgrave brought home the dulcimer honors from Uncle Dave Macon Days. Sarah finished first in the dulcimer competition with rousing versions of "Gray Cat on a Tennessee Farm" and "Silly Bill." Last year Sarah placed first in the Beginner Musician category and this year moved up in style to the major dulcimer competition besting ten other excellent players! Congratulations Sarah!! Sandy Conatser placed second in that competition playing "Fishers Hornpipe" and "Sweet Hour of Prayer." Ed Newkirk placed second in the dulcimer competition at Bluegrass on the Harpeth in Franklin. Ed says, "I played something slow and pretty, "Danny Boy," which I learned from Lee Rowe. It went a little shakey, but I finished it ok. To my complete surprise I got second place and $25! It was a lot of fun and I can't wait to enter another festival."

Playing Opportunities!!
The Nashville City Cemetery Association is looking for dulcimer players to provide music at their living history tour at the cemetery on Saturday Sept. 29 from 3:30 pm until 8:30 pm. If you think you might be able to play for an hour (or longer!), please email Zada Law and she will help you with arrangements. This is a great opportunity to hone your performance skills. Zada played there last year and had a great time! You only need to know about 3 songs..... because people are walking by you as you're playing -- they might linger for about one song. Happy music, fiddle tunes are great, and slow song are good too! The City Cemetery is Nashville's oldest cemetery, dating back to1822! In the last few years, the City Cemetery Association has worked hard to clean up the cemetery. The living history tour has had good attendance, and dulcimer music is absolutely perfect for this tour. It's a perfect place to promote dulcimer music!

Metro Parks has asked us to provide informal dulcimer music for their Centennial Celebration in the Centennial Arts Center on Saturday, September 15, from 9 until 5 and Sunday, September 16, from noon until 5. We will be scattered throughout the exhibit area and can choose the times we want to play. There will be no central stage, so the schedule is completely flexible. You can volunteer at the August meeting and we will also discuss the possibility of moving our September meeting location to the Centennial Arts Center so that we can all participate on Sunday. Metro Parks is very generous to us during Grand Old Dulcimer Day, and this is an opportunity for us to say "Thank You!" and support their other programs as well. If you cannot come to the August meeting and would like to play either day, please email Sandy.

Upcoming Events...Mark Your Calendar!!
The Ala-Sippi Dulcimer Association's Fall Dulcimer Day will be held on Friday and Saturday, October 19 & 20, 2001 at Tishomingo State Park near Tishomingo, Ms. just off either the Natchez Trace or Highway 25 - from our area, the Trace is a beautiful drive!! After the pot luck dinner on Friday evening, a great jam session is held in the lodge until about 9:30 pm. Saturday morning is devoted to shopping, playing, renewing old friendships - with the stage performances starting at noon.

The Great River Road Festival will be held August 24-26 at the Pere Marquette Lodge near Grafton, IL. Visit their website for information....great festival....David Schnaufer, Stephen Seifert, and Tull Glazener will be teaching and performing and rumor has it that the Nashville Dulcimer Quartet will be there too!!