by Linda Ratcliff YAY! WE WON! Each year, in and around the San Mateo, California, area, the San Mateo Award Program chooses the best local businesses in several categories. They focus on companies that have demonstrated their ability to use various marketing methods to grow their business in spite of difficult economic times. The companies […]
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Musical Advent Devotion featuring dulcimers.
“I have created a series of daily emails with Advent music that you can receive as a focusing accompaniment during this season. …”
Spotted Pony for Hammered Dulcimer!
by Steve Eulberg At DulcimerCrossing.com we seem to love riding the ponies because here we are, announcing the new hammered dulcimer lesson for this tune, Spotted Pony. Steve first learned this from Erin Mae Lewis at the Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield Kansas (mumble, mumble) years ago! It’s stepwise and skipping melodic phrases make it […]
Nylon-String Mountain Dulcimer!
by Steve Eulberg I am so excited to introduce you to this brand-new instrument. I have been waiting for it for over a year and it is finally here! Robert Stephens of South Carolina (StephensLutherie.com) has been working with Aaron O’Rourke (of Chattanooga, TN) to develop a new fingerstyle dulcimer that can also work when […]
Good King Wenceslas
by Steve Eulberg Just in time for the year-end holidays, Deborah Hamouris provides us with a delightful arrangement and lesson on this lesser-known tune. Deborah is half of the duo Dulcimates with her spouse Buffalo. They have been playing tunes like this for the Great Dickens Faire in San Francisco for many years. She has […]
New Fiddle Lesson!
by Steve Eulberg DulcimerCrossing is excited to announce the release of a new fiddle lesson by our own guru, Vi Wickam. Spotted Pony is a fun Old-Time Missouri fiddle tune. Vi introduces this tune below. We also have lessons for this tune for Mountain Dulcimers (Erin Mae) and (Butch Ross), and (Erin Mae & Steve […]