2011 WORKSHOP LEADERS - 2012 info will be posted soon - please check back!

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.

Kristin Gitler - Kristin has been playing the mountain dulcimer for over 10 years. She performs with an acoustic duo as well as with an Irish session group, and enjoys playing fiddle tunes from all traditions. She has a CD and accompanying tab book, "Old Tunes - Baked Fresh", featuring American, Celtic and French Canadian fiddle tunes on mountain dulcimer and acoustic guitar.

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 twentieth year.

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).

Sandy Lafleur - Sandy has been playing dulcimer for several years and leads classes of elementary school children, as well as adults, at high schools in her area of southern New Hampshire. She has two books, Songs of the Season and Heart's Delight.

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 Heart 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.

Nina Zanetti - Nina is the 2008 winner of the National Mountain Dulcimer Competition at the Walnut Valley Festival, Winfield, KS. She plays regularly at churches and community events and has taught workshops at dulcimer festivals in Pennsylvania, Vermont, and New York State. Nina is especially fond of the softer side of dulcimer, and has recently produced a book by that name, a collection of gentle, finger-style solo arrangements for mountain dulcimer. Together with her playing partner, Beth Lassi, she has also produced a book of duets for mountain dulcimer, called "Tunes for Two or More". Nina and Beth are featured in a new compilation album produced by Susan Trump, called Masters of the Mountain Dulcimer play Music for Christmas. Nina has also produced a CD of solos and duets, "The Sum of the Parts", with Bill Collins.