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Dulci-More Festival 23 set for this weekend

LISBON–Dulci-More Festival 23 will be held Friday through Sunday at BSA Camp McKinley in Lisbon.

The event starts with Friday evening’s concert at 7 p.m. Members of Dulci-More will perform a short opening set. Next will be a set by Bill Cohen from Columbus, a singer and guitarist who will lead folk songs from the 1960s, followed by Lois Hornbostel and Ehukai Teves from Bryson City, N.C., mountain dulcimer specialists who may add some ukulele, which Teves grew up playing in his native Hawaii, Chapman stick and singing. Hornbostel played for Dulci-More Festival 5.

Saturday evening’s concert starts at 7 p.m. with Dulci-More in another short set. Tina Bergmann and Bryan Thomas from Brady Lake, Ohio, will be next. Bergmann is a hammered dulcimer specialist (Pete Seeger said, “The best hammered dulcimer player I’ve heard in my life,”) and a featured artist with Apollo’s fire throughout northeast Ohio, and her husband, Thomas, is a double bass player and instructor of that instrument at Kent State University. They previously performed for Dulci-More Festival 12 and for the Dulci-More Concert Series in 2005. Ending the evening will be Bryan Bowers from Sedro-Wooley, Wash., autoharp player, singer/songwriter and storyteller who played for the Dulci-More Concert Series in 2003, 2004, 2006 and 2008. Bowers will be joining Geoff Goodhue in his concert set, and Goodhue will join Bowers in his.

Sunday evening’s concert starts at 7 p.m. with another short set from Dulci-More. Geoff Goodhue from Vermont will take the stage next, joined by Bryan Bowers for part of his set. Goodhue is a guitar and mandolin player and singer with a BFA in Percussion Performance from Ohio University in Athens. Finishing out the festival will be Madeline MacNeil from Berryville, Va., a hammered and mountain dulcimer specialist and singer who performed for Dulci-More Festivals 6, 10 and 15 and performed for the concert series in 2002, 2014 and 2016.. Bill Schilling from Salem, Dulci-More president, will again be the performing emcee.

Daytime mini-concerts on Saturday and Sunday will feature Marge Diamond from Elyria; The Hired Hands (five Miller sisters) from Lisbon; Bill Locke from Pittsburgh; Brett Ridgeway from Ohioville, Pa.; Bill Schilling from Salem; Linda Sigismondi from Gallipolis; Stringed Fantasy from the Canton/Massillon area; Adam Sutch from Charleroi, Pa.; Upriver with Teresa Morrison and Dan Morrison from Shreve; Olivia Walton from Ravenna; John Whitacre from Hanoverton; and Alice and Earl Whitehill from Hookstown, Pa.. There will also be open stage and clubs open stage performances by people attending the festival.

Over 60 workshops are planned during the days on Saturday and Sunday led by performers, vendors, volunteers and Dulci-More members. Participants can learn basics or advanced techniques of mountain dulcimer, hammered dulcimer, autoharp, guitar, ukulele, fiddle, mandolin, banjo, Celtic harp, bass, bowed psaltery, Native American flute, songwriting, singing, jamming and more including children’s workshops. Some instruments are available for loan. All concerts, workshops and events are inside or in covered areas so that the festival will go on whatever the weather, but those attending may want to prepare for the possibility of going from place to place in cold or rainy conditions (or even in heat and bright sunshine).

Sunday morning begins with a hymn/gospel/spiritual sing. Song circles, jamming and campfires follow the evening concerts, and there are almost always some people jamming throughout the days. Events start at 9 a.m. on Saturday and Sunday with registration beginning at 8 a.m.

There is primitive camping (no hook-ups) available at the camp. Meals and snacks are available at the festival. There will be about five musical vendors including some instrument makers with their own instruments for sale. Children are always welcome at the festival with responsible adults.

Pre-registered group discounts are available. Full weekend admission is $35 per person and public school age children with a responsible adult are free at any time during the weekend. Admission for each evening concert is $10 per person per evening. Admission for just daytime events is $8 per person per day. Admission for either day with the evening concert included is $15 per person.

The festival is hosted by Dulci-More: Folk & Traditional Musicians, a club that meets at the First United Methodist Church of Salem with members from the tri-state area and beyond. The club is also offering a special program this year for the 15th time, Dulci-More Festival for Schools, where some of its performers will take folk music programs out to C.H. Campbell Elementary School in Canfield, Joshua Dixon Elementary in Columbiana and Damascus Elementary in West Branch. This program is funded by generous donations from Folknet and Dulci-More.

BSA Camp McKinley is located at 37748 Furnace Road, Lisbon.

For information on the festival or Dulci-More, contact Bill Schilling at 234-564-3852, bill@dulcimore.org, or access www.dulcimore.org on the web.

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