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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

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Club News!!

• Another Successful Grand Old Dulcimer Day!! This year's festival was the best one yet! The weather was perfect....even a bit on the chilly side....and we had a large crowd of music lovers. An impromptu singing/playing jam popped up inside the mansion, and it was outstanding!! We'll be sure to include it as a regular event next year.

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• Our first workshop/potluck/house concert was a great success! We appreciate David and Jean Shupe for opening their home to us for this event. What great hosts!! They added an awesome country ham and baked beans (David's mom's recipe!!) to the potluck dinner. Jack and Brenda Warren were in town from Florida and brought Erma Clarke and Sam Ard with them. Rounding out the group were Nannette Martin, June Geddie, Donna Harvey, Wanda O'Guin, Denise Coss, Priscilla Rushing, Glen Wilson, Sandy Conatser, Sarah Musgrave, Dan Pfeifer and Mary Nichols. Dan and Mary are new players from Woodbury and will be joining us at our monthly meetings! Neal and Coleen Walters from Pennsylvania taught and entertained us in a marvelous way. We learned waltzes and some strumming techniques from Neal which we will share at club meeting.

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• Glen Wilson has been on a great dulcimer odyssey!! Here's his report....."We were returning from a visit from Asheville, NC, last fall and stopped at a rest stop where we found a brochure advertising the Mountain Music Shop at Cosby, TN...."the kind of place you hope to find in the mountains with lots of dulcimer stuff"... It wasn't far off the interstate so we went over. The brochure did not lie!! We were expecting a little shop but were ill-prepared for what we found. You must see it to appreciate it!! If you are in the area, it is a must see for dulcimer players! I met Jean and Lee Shilling who own and operate the shop, found a few items I couldn't live without and was off again. Some time later, back in Nashville, we toured the governor's mansion where, lo and behold, there was an Appalachian mountain dulcimer hanging on the wall... a pretty fiddle-shaped one made of light walnut.... 5-stringed with old-fashioned, wooden peg tuners. The docent at the mansion said it was on loan from the Tennessee State Museum. I checked with Mike Bell, museum curator, who told me it was made by Lee Schilling of Cosby, TN, and had been purchased by the state at a crafts festival over 20 years ago. I was chatting later with David Schnaufer and he is familiar with the Schillings and has a dulcimer very similar in his collection. David also told me he is in the process of playing and recording old instruments from the very same museum collection as part of his newest CD project - "Appalachian Archive." WOW! Guess this all falls into the small world isn't it category!!

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• Glen also recommends "Shindig on the Green" at the courthouse in Asheville, NC. It happens every Saturday evening in July and August, and there are lots of string bands---and even a dulcimer group!!

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• Dates to watch for:
  • Paul Pyle Dulcimer Daze in Tullahoma, weekend of June 22
  • Smithville Fiddlers Jamboree, July 5-7 (Dulcimer competition Friday afternoon)
  • Uncle Dave Macon Days, July 12-14 (Dulcimer competition Friday night)
  • Pickin' Parties at Warner Park - June 22, July 26, September 21 (call 370-8053 for info)
  • Great River Road Dulcimer Festival - August 16-18
  • Dulcimer Chatauqua on the Wabash, New Harmony, IN - October 24-27

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• The Nashville Dulcimer Quartet had two great CD release parties on June 1 and 2. If you didn't get a copy of Four-Part Inventions at Dulcimer Day and would like to get one, Sandy will have some at the club meeting or you can order from the Quartet's website.

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