Dulcimer lovers unite every January in the Poconos at the annual Pocono Winter Dulcimer Fest. This is the 13th year for the popular festival that brings two different types of dulcimer lovers together ...

WANTAGE -- Her hands hovered over the mass of strings, thumbs and wrists working closely to flip the decorative wooden hammers onto the strings. As Donna Traylor played, Merle Tanis was making similar ...

HINDMAN, KY. — The heritage of handcrafted stringed instruments runs deep in this tiny Appalachian village (pop. 770) stretched along the banks of Troublesome Creek. The community has been known as ...

NORTHUMBERLAND — Tom Jolin has been playing the music of Appalachia for decades. The folk artist and instrument builder is fulfilling a two-week residency with the fifth-graders at the Priestley ...