Dallas Cline - An inspiration to all, Dallas has been teaching many classes. She has written many books for the Mountain Dulcimer including The Capo Book, A Christmas Celebration, Pachabel in D Major, 50 Irish Tunes and Songs, Moving up with the Mountain Dulcimer and Turning Toward the Morning. She has a teaching video Bumps 'N Diddies.

George Haggerty - George is an accomplished dulcimer builder, teacher, and player. His enthusiasm for this versatile instrument is apparent in his workshops which build a solid foundation for even the most inexperienced player. His love of old-time music and his creative nature bring out feeling and expression in his music whether it is in his workshops, recordings, or performances. George has taught students from first grade to senior citizens. He owns and operates a music shop, FOLK CRAFT MUSIC, in Jacksonville, Vt, where he sells hand-crafted dulcimers and other related musical items. His CD's, Just Friends...One More Time and The Best of Just Friends, a compilation of George's 2 cassettes Just Friends and Just Friends Again, are dulcimer instrumentals. He is director of his annual festival in Vermont, now in it's nineteenth year.

Marsha Harris - Marsha has been playing the mountain dulcimer since 1993 and the bowed dulcimer since 2004. She performs with two civil war period bands, The Carteret Grays and The Huckleberry Brothers and an eclectic group, The Bogue Sounds. In addition to the dulcimers, she plays fiddle, tenor banjo and the Native American flute. Marsha enjoys attending fiddle festivals in NC, VA and W.Va. and has been the champion mountain dulcimer player at Fiddler's Grove in Union Grove and has received awards at Mt Airy Fiddler's Convention both in NC. She enjoys many genres of music and is adept at playing tunes by ear. She has a number of original compositions as well. Marsha also is a contra dance caller.

Lori Keddell - Lori has been teaching children to build and play the dulcimer for many years. She has also taught workshops at numerous festivals including Cranberry Dulcimer Gathering and August Dulcimer Daze. She has published 3 books of dulcimer arrangements: Night Songs and Lullabies, A Treasury of Christmas Music and A Mountain Dulcimer Potpourri (Songs in DAA).

Beth Lassi - Beth Lassi learned to play several instruments before discovering the dulcimer but none captured her interest or her heart the way this instrument has. She has performed in a variety of settings as a soloist and in small groups and has taught at festivals throughout the northeast. Beth, along with Nina Zanetti, has coauthored two books, "Tunes for Two or More - Volumes 1 and 2," and they also perform together on the compilation CD, Masters of the Mountain Dulcimer Play Music For Christmas. She is also the mountain dulcimer coordinator of the Cranberry Dulcimer and Autoharp Gathering..

Bonnie Leigh, CMP - Bonnie, a Certified Music Practitioner and performer/teacher, actively performs and teaches her gentle style of playing with the dulcimer across the northeast coast. Bonnie has taught at eleven dulcimer festivals in the east and has been giving lessons, teaching at festivals and performing since 1991. You'll find her at historical villages, libraries, clubs, meetings or doing house concerts. Her easy manner makes learning to play fun and relaxed. As a Music Practitioner Bonnie plays the dulcimer and small harp at the bedside of hospice patients. Bonnie's original songs of life and family can be found on her 3 recordings and 3 songbooks to accompany the recordings, all in dulcimer tab. Bonnie has also written 3 poem books and "From My Hear to Yours - Thoughts and experiences of a Music Practitioner Intern" a booklet.

Jan Nieburg - Jan, a retired public school music teacher, has been playing the mountain dulcimer since 1990. She came to the dulcimer as a singer and considers the mountain dulcimer a perfect accompanying instrument for the voice. She performs solo and with the Southwest Florida Dulcimer Club. Jan loves to jam with fiddle players and other dulcimer players, but being somewhat of an "academic," she is very interested in the history of the instrument, too.

Norm Williams - Norm is co-founder of The Pocono Dulcimer Club and coordinator of their Winter DulcimerFest held every January in Stroudsburg, PA. Norm began teaching out of necessity in 2002 and has been faculty at festivals throughout the Northeast including the Pocono Winter DulcimerFest, DAA Mountain Dulcimer Music Fest, August Dulcimer Days, Music by the Bay, the Cranberry Dulcimer Gathering, Maiden Creek Old Time Festival and at Augusta Heritage Center, WV. In addition to dulcimer he plays guitar and banjo. Norm is a lover of Old Time music and plays with the band, Wayfarers & Company and on occasion sits it with his friends The Druckenmillers. Norm lives with his wife, Erin, in Breinigsville, PA.

Nina Zanetti - Nina is the 2008 winner of the National Mountain Dulcimer Competition at the Walnut Valley Festival, Winfield, KS. Nina comes to dulcimer from a diverse musical background, including choral music, violin, viola, piano, and shape note singing. She plays regularly at churches and community events, has taught workshops at Cranberry, Poconos, and Albany festivals; and with her playing partner Beth Lassi, has produced two books of dulcimer duets. She is especially fond of the "softer side of dulcimer".