Vol. 4 , No. 8August, 2002

Editors
Glen Wilson
Sandy Conatser
Graphics
Lee Rowe
Sandy Conatser

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
Flop Eared Mule
Ten Thousand Charms
Do Lord
Little Liza Jane
Whiskey Before Breakfast

Resource Links

Dulcimer Players News
Augusta Heritage Ctr.
Ozark Folk Center
Digital Tradition
Dulcimer Theory
Knoxville Club
North Georgia Club
Waverly, TN Club
Kansas City Club
Dulcimer Tab
British Isles Music
Traditional Music

Newsletter Archive
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March 2002
February 2002
January 2002
December 2001
November 2001
October 2001
September 2001
August 2001

Club News!!

  • Denise Coss is the club's new Event Coordinator. Thanks so much to Denise for volunteering. Let's all work to make her job easy by participating and by responding quickly to notices for play dates. We have developed an identity in the community and need lots of volunteer players at our events! Remember - even if you don't know all of the songs, there's always a D chord!!!
  • Remember the show biz adage.. it's tough to follow an animal act...well that's what we did at the Cumberland Science Museum! We've shared the billings with string bands, cloggers and dancers but this was the first weve ever shared the billing with RAT BASKETBALL. Yep, you saw it right, a rat basketball game. Rats or not we had a good turnout which featured Donovan Carpenter, Donna Harvey, David Schnaufer, Sarah Elizabeth, Mountain Laurel, Sandy Conatser, Wanda O'Guin, Georgia Hobb, Nannette Martin, and Glen Wilson.
  • The songbook group got its start at the last meeting where we spent some time reading TAB and figuring out what all those funny looking notes were and some ways to play them with appropriate time values. We worked on "Happy Day" and "Billy Boy" and will review them in August and get started on a couple of new ones. Ed Newkirk has volunteered to lead the group and will give you a heads-up as soon as he has a couple of songs in mind. There are still copies of Simply Gospel and Simply Remembered available and Glen would like to have this project completed by the August meeting so...pick up your books please.
  • The Harpeth Presbyterian Dulcimer Band (Biff Fink, Lee Boone and Glen Wilson) had a playout for the Westminster Pres. pre-schoolers last month. Biff had several children's songs ready to go along with hand and body motions! Not really a lot of "real"dulcimer music but we all sure did have a good time. Where is thumpkin ????
  • Mountain Laurel will be playing each day at the Wilson County Fair. Stop by and see them!!
  • There is a great website for folk tunes from Ireland, Scotland and America. It has information about the songs, sound files so that you can hear them, and lyrics. Click here to find it!
  • Click here for another great source of traditional tunes with lyrics and sound files. Use the menu to select tunes from America, Ireland, Scotland, England, Wales and Canada!

Getting to Know Us: Georgia Hobb

Club profile by Ed Newkirk

This month's profile spotlights Georgia Hobb, an active club member!
I started playing the dulcimer about 4 or 5 years ago after the dulcimer I had bought at a Crafts Fair had spent several years under the bed. I had always planned to learn to play one after I retired. I had heard them on several occasions and liked the sound and the size.

My first experience playing was at the John C. Campbell Folk School in Murphy, NC. I enrolled in a week long workshop that was a choice at an Elderhostel. It was so much fun and I was amazed that I could play several tunes before I left, even though I was very dependent on those numbers that came taped to each fret! The week-long workshop certainly convinced me that I had only "just begun to learn" to play the dulcimer.

I learned of the Dulcimer Club through the newspaper ad for Grand Old Dulcimer Day in 1999 and decided it was time to begin learning again. I retired and began calling Blair about lessons and finally registered with David Schnaufer in the fall of 2000. It was better that most of my "skill" had left me, for David introduced me to DAD. Between him and Steve I continued lessons that year, but I was not at all confident.

Then in the fall of 2001 with the encouragement of June Geddie, I enrolled again with David and practiced faithfully. I have taken part in the Dulcimer Club and really enjoyed the people and the fun we have playing on the 3rd Sunday as well as whenever the group has the opportunity to play.

I do have two dulcimers, but one is on the wall. I broke the bridge on my first one learning how to tune it. I enjoy playing a variety of music from the country tunes to the Bach that David has introduced me to. I am one of those "follow the leader" players and I am so appreciative of all the help and encouragement the Dulcimer Club experienced ones share.

I played the piano many years ago, but the dulcimer is the only instrument I now try to play. I am the only member of my family that plays, and they seem to be amazed when I do play.

Don't forget!!

Club Meeting

Sunday
August 17

2-5 p.m.

See You There!!

 		The Grand Old Dulcimer Club meets on the third Sunday of each month at Priest Lake Presbyterian Church on Smith Springs Road. Players of all ages and abilities are welcome. Special attention is given to beginning musicians! Smith Springs intersects with Bell Road north of I-24 and south of I-40. Turn east, and the church is approximately 3/4 mile ahead on the right.

In partnership with Metro Parks, The Grand Old Dulcimer Club sponsors Grand Old Dulcimer Day each year in May at Two Rivers Mansion.

The club and its members perform at festivals and civic events and often take their music into special needs facilities such as hospitals, nursing homes, and other care facilities.

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