Great Acoustics

NEFFA is for lovers. Lotsa dancing, classes, presentations and concerts, ethnic food and dress and music, jamming and more jamming.

http://www.neffa.org/What_is_Festival.html

Saturday, September 10, 2011. Lowell, MA.

Come enjoy the great music!

http://www.lowell.com/32nd-annual-banjo-and-fiddle-contests-6334/

Neffa at Mansfield High and Middle Schools, Mansfield MA. We’ll be there Saturday for our concert, our workshops, and the all-day out-door old-time jam session.

Eisteddfod Traditional Music Festival, Kerhonkson, NY

http://www.minstrelrecords.com/fmsny/eisteddfod/

Lorraine Hammond,  the 30th Annual Dulcimer Festival workshop leaders, and the Boston Folksong Society Singers will “Sing into Spring” in the Cambridge Center for Adult Education’s peerless acoustic listening space.

At the Cambridge Center for Adult Education’s historic Blacksmith Housel in Harvard Square.  This is the 30th iteration of  Lorraine’s original Flower Carol Festival,  and you know it will feature master classes for all levels, jam sessions for all levels, a wide range of instrument builder/vendors,  more jam sessions, before an  intimate evening concert – right in Harvard Square.  www.dulcimerfestival.org.

Mt. Dora Dulcimer Festival, Mt. Dora, FL features Lorraine on dulcimer and harp. http://www.fldulcimer.com/festival/us/florida/mount-dora/central-florida-dulcimer-and-autoharp-festival

At the Friar Tuck Inn, Catskill, NY

http://www.minstrelrecords.com/fmsny/eisteddfod/

August Dulcimer Daze!

Festival and  Workshops.
www.augustdulcimerdaze.com/welcome.html

29th Annual Spring Dulcimer Festival

http://www.dulcimerfestival.org/

Cambridge Center for Adult Ed.,
56 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA, 02140

(Harvard Square)

Bruce Hutton & Chris Romaine
Lorraine and Bennett perform, teach and lead jam sessions.

An intimate festival located in historic Cambridge, MA. The celebration of spring and music begins with Dulcimers in Concert at 8:00 p.m. Friday evening featuring the Hammonds and other workshop leaders. Saturday provides a full day of workshops and jamming. Come learn, play and sing with individualized workshops for beginning and experienced Appalachian dulcimer players and coaching sessions for hammered dulcimer. All day guided jam sessions welcome banjos, fiddles and all folk instruments. Vendors will be present in the courtyard. Saturday evening’s concert will be presented in conjunction with the Folksong Society of Greater Boston. It will feature Bruce Hutton and Chris Romaine performing songs and tunes from the rural South. The festivities will conclude with a family concert by the Hammonds at 3:00 on Sunday afternoon.

Cost: Friday concert – $10.00; Full day festival – $50.00; morning or afternoon only – $30.00; Saturday concert – $15.00 or $10.00 for festival participants; Sunday concert is free