Buckeye Dulcimer Festival

The following information is from the festival that just ended in April. There will be some changes
for 2025. Keep checking back for updates.

                      BUCKEYE DULCIMER FESTIVAL 2025
                        April 23 - April 27, 2025

             Recreation Unlimited        Ashley, Ohio

Join us in 2025 as we look to the 32nd year of this special festival at Recreation Unlimited (Ashley, OH) .. a wonderful facility.

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These instructors will be teaching their classes during the extended session (5 hours on Thursday and 5 hour on Friday) and also conducting mini-sessions on Saturday.

MOUNTAIN DULCIMER

TBA
Intermediate/Advanced

TBA
Past Beginner/Early Intermediate

Diane Hochstetler
Beginner/New Players

HAMMERED DULCIMER

TBA
Intermediate/Advanced

Chris Steiner
Past Beginner/Early Intermediate

Melanie Shapiro
Beginner/New Players

AUTOHARP

TBA
Past Beginners and above
Zoom Option available

BAND - IT!

Shari Wolf
All acoustic Instruments
Past Beginner and above

CLAWHAMMER BANJO

                                Joe Steiner
                                Past beginners and above
                            Zoom Option available

*Special Option for New Players and early beginners who would like to be in this 10-hour class.

UKULELE

TBA
Past Beginners and above

*Special Option for New Players and early beginners who would like to be in this 10-hour class.

SATURDAY (4/26) ALL-DAY BEGINNER CLASSES

Phyllis Davis - Autoharp
Phyllis will be helping folks get started on the right track by teaching approximately 5 hours of
New Player/Beginner autoharp.

Melanie Shapiro - Hammered Dulcimer
Journey to the Jam – and beyond!
The Saturday class will be 5 hours together for those just beginning their musical journey with the hammered dulcimer. We’ll start with mapping out the dulcimer so we know where we are starting from. Then we’ll learn how to navigate those strings with a few rules to help us stay on course by learning to hold our hammers properly, and learning hammering patterns to chart our way efficiently. We can only stay on track if we learn to tune, so we’ll cover that as well. Before you know it, you'll be at the jam!

Shane Braden - Mountain Dulcimer
Shane will be helping folks get started on the right track by teaching 5 hours of
New Player/Beginner mountain dulcimer.

BUCKEYE DULCIMER FESTIVAL ZOOM JAMS

WELCOME to zoom jams, Buckeye Dulcimer Festival style. Join Chris & Joe Steiner and Shari Wolf in jamming our favorite jam tunes from the dulcimer world, old-time music world and bluegrass world. Music in the jams will all be traditional and from public domain.
No copyrighted music.

These are not beginner jams, BUT beginners ... anyone .... is welcome to join

We'll increase speed as we play through tunes and play singing songs at singing speed.
We'll play tunes more than just a few times.

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You'll be able to hear only the three of us during the jam. We will be muting you during the playing and unmuting
in between tunes for comments. We hope this will help you to continue to jam even when jamming in person is not possible.

For Zoom sign-in information and Jam List,
https://www.buckeyedulcimerfestival.com/bdfzoomjams.htm

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Zoom/Onsite Jams & Jams on Saturday Evenings - New f or 2024

Zoom Jam Info new for 2024. We would like for each month's zoom jam to have an onsite component.
If your group or club would like to host a Buckeye Roadshow Zoom/Hybrid jam, please contact Chris Steiner
at 419-721-8016.
In addition, a workshop day and/or concert could be combined with the event.
We welcome the opportunity to travel throughout Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Pennsylvania,
Kentucky or wherever this idea takes us. Playing LIVE music is what we are all about.

UPCOMING ZOOM DATE(S):

Saturday, June 8 .... 7:00 pm EDT Happy Hour ... Jam starts at 7:30
No Early Bird.

Jam List and PDF music

ZOOM JAM LINK

Mark your calendars. Hope to see you then!
Buckeye Roadshow ... Chris, Joe, and Shari

New Year's Resolution for 2024 was to use the Zoom recording and post the jam.
Some folks would like to work on the tunes. Mission Accomplished, at least for January.

Buckeye Roadshow Zoom/onsite Jam - January 27, 2024 - part 1 https://youtu.be/j-HDLprlhF4

Buckeye Roadshow Zoom/onsite Jam - January 27, 2024 - part 2 https://youtu.be/cdQY3O5IeqM

Join our mailing list (email or snail mail): Email us and include your information.
If you have any further questions, please call Shari at 937-216-5176.

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Last updated: June 27, 2024

Webmatician: Shari Wolf