A name like the Hammer Heads easily conjures up the image of a heavy metal group. But the only metal used here are the strings on a hammered dulcimer. This weekend, the Hammer Heads – part of the ...

The annual Gardner Winter Music Festival returned to South Middle School in Morgantown, continuing a tradition that dates back more than four decades. Organizers said the event ...

On his sophomore solo release, Bryce Dessner of the National teams up with Sō Percussion for a post-minimalism composition centered around the Chordstick, his co-designed dulcimer-guitar hybrid. The ...

"It was important to donate the dulcimer that was designed for my 50th Opry anniversary so we can raise awareness and much needed funds," Dolly Parton tells PEOPLE PEOPLE, Music Writer and Reporter ...

Four years ago, I had never heard of a dulcimer, which is a musical instrument. Now, it seems like everyone plays it, including me. Just recently, I was in the library and ran into a co-worker.

WOODBURN, Ind. (WANE) — In Woodburn, a music store tucked away between the local post office and a salon houses a unique instrument that cannot be found just anywhere: a dulcimer. Although the ...

SALEM – Dulci-More: Folk & Traditional Musicians will host Dave Haas at 7 p.m. Saturday in the Meeting Room of the Dale Shaffer Research Library of the Salem Historical Society, 239 S. Lundy Ave.

When Sam Edelston strolls onstage with a delicate three-string mountain dulcimer, audiences expect him to deliver quaint folk music. “Then I plug in, blast out ‘Smoke on the Water,’ and they go ‘Whoa, ...