Dulci-More:
Folk & Traditional Musicians
Updated September 9, 2008
Digital Photo Albums of
Dulci-More
Dulci-More Members Performing at
Dulci-More Festival 13, May 2007
Dulci-More: Folk &
Traditional Musicians is a club that started in January 1993, at the First
United Methodist Church of Salem. The purposes of the club are to have fun with
folk-style music and to share that music with others. The club meets at 7:00 pm on the first Tuesday and Third Tuesday
(note: it was the third Wednesday until January, 2000) of each month just off
the sanctuary by the Unity Classroom of the First United Methodist Church of
Salem, 244 South Broadway, Salem, OH 44460. All levels of acoustic
instrumentalists and singers are always welcome at the meetings to jam, to
learn, to listen, or to perform. Meetings are generally run as song circles
with most songs or tunes chosen from the Dulci-More Public Domain Songbook with
everyone joining in, but other choices are permitted and usually welcome as
well as solo or small group performances for an individual's selection. Most
members stay until at least 9:00 pm,
but many members regularly stay much later. Some come later when they need to.
People should feel free to come and go as needed without disturbing the group.
A brief update of coming events and items which may be of interest to members
is done at some point during the evening when the most people are likely to be
in attendance. Call ahead if you are coming from far away since performances or
special meetings may be scheduled a few times a year on regular meeting nights.
The group averages over two performances a month for festivals, fairs, schools,
churches, clubs, nursing homes, and others. A calendar which should be kept up
to date regularly showing Meetings, Concerts, Workshops, Festivals, Events, and
More for Dulci-More is available below or in a larger format at: Dulci-More Google Calendar for your convenience.
Dulci-More
Fall 2008 Concert Series
Salem Historical
Society Meeting Room
208 South Broadway, Salem, Ohio
44460
Pete Morton on Sunday, September 21 at 4:30 PM
Bob Zentz on Wednesday, October 22 at 7:30 PM
Bryan Bowers on Wednesday,
December 3 at 7:30 PM
Admission at Door – $10 per
Person per Concert
$5 Total for All Children in
a Family
$8 for Salem Historical Society or Dulci-More Members
No Advance Reservations
Needed
For Series Admission of $25
per Person
Contact Bill Schilling at bill@dulcimore.org or 330-332-4420
Prior to first concert
Dulci-More
Festival
The Annual Dulci-More Festival has been held on Memorial Day Weekend since 1995. Check the link above for the most current
information. Performers for the Evening Concerts for Dulci-More Festival 15 on May
22-24, 2009 were
confirmed by the beginning of September (the earliest ever). We are very
pleased to announce that the lineup includes Les Gustafson-Zook, Madeline MacNeil, Mustard’s Retreat, Bill Staines, Susan Trump, and Mark Wade. Check the Dulci-More
Festival Home Page or the Dulci-More
Festival 15 Performer Bios & Photos Page for the most current
information.
If you would like
to print out flyers or brochures or other information for the upcoming (or most
recent) Dulci-More Festival, it is probably easiest to do them with the links
here, however they do require that you have a copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Free downloads are available from www.Adobe.com if you need it
Get
Dulci-More Festival 14 Registration Forms in Adobe PDF Format
Get Dulci-More Festival 14 Flyer in Adobe PDF Format
Get Dulci-More Festival 14 Double Flyer in Adobe PDF Format (Print Back to Back and Cut in Half)
Get Dulci-More Festival 14 Brochure in Adobe PDF Format
Get
Dulci-More Festival 14 Workshop Grid in Adobe PDF Format
Get
Dulci-More Festival 14 Program in Adobe PDF Format
Information
about performers from over the years should soon be available on a separate
page.
More information about location, schedule,
performers, activities, etc. is posted at the Dulci-More Festival
Home Page.
Dulci-More Anniversary Concerts
Dulci-More: Folk & Traditional Musicians are generally
presented in late January or early February in the Sanctuary of the First
United Methodist Church of Salem, 244 South Broadway, Salem, OH 44460 for free
as a way for Dulci-More to say thanks to the community and to let more people
know what we are doing. The date and information about the next one will be
posted on the calendar as soon as we have information about it. to an audience
of at least 180.
The concert typically features
ensemble selections by Dulci-More and solo or small group numbers by a few of
our members. Individual Dulci-More members sing and/or play mountain dulcimers,
hammered dulcimers, guitars, autoharps, mandolins, banjos, fiddles, cello,
bass, harmonicas, recorders, flutes, jug and more. About 20 members or more
generally perform during these concerts and there are sometimes audiences of
about 200 in attendance.
Since 2004, the anniversary
concerts have also featured some members of Dulci-More Little Eagles, yearly groups of United Local Elementary
students who have been playing mountain dulcimers in an after-school program
led by Dulci-More members since autumn 2003.
No tickets or reservations are
needed for these concert. There is no charge. Everyone is welcome to attend.
Cookies or cake and punch are served during intermission. For more information
or directions, contact Bill Schilling at 330-332-4420 or bill@dulcimore.org
or check on the web at www.dulcimore.org or at www.billschilling.org for more
information about the club.
Dulci-More Workshops and
Concerts Featuring Special Guests
Dulci-More: Folk & Traditional Musicians
has also decided to sponsor occasional guest artists to present their music to
our members and the community in general. These events have been held at the
First United Methodist Church of Salem, the Salem Historical Society, the First
Presbyterian Church of Salem, and the Kent Salem Campus. Performers from 2000
through 2007 (with several of them making return trips) have included, Tina Bergmann & Bryan Thomas from
Brady Lake, OH, Bryan
Bowers from Washington State, Patty Looman from West Virginia (joined by Marilyn & Tom Lashuay from Kent, OH and Bill Schilling in one of her appearances), Madeline MacNeil from
the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia (joined by Guy George from Concord, OH and Bill
Schilling), Pete Morton from
England, Stephen Seifert
from Tennessee, Bill
Staines from New Hampshire, Pat Travis & Bill Matlack from Pittsburgh, PA, and Susan Trump from New York State. Mark Alan Wade was snowed out for his April 2, 2005 appearance,
and we have never managed to reschedule that one.
Dulci-More
Performances
Since forming in January of 1993, Dulci-More has
averaged over two performances per month for civic groups, nursing homes,
churches, schools, coffee houses, festivals, and others including opening for Bill
Staines at the Morley Performing Arts Pavilion in Mill Creek
Park in the summer of 1996. The club has also been involved in an autoharp
recording project for the Stephen Foster Museum in Pittsburgh and others. There
are over 100 members in the club. Anywhere from eight to thirty members may
sign up for a given performance. Depending on which members perform, there may
be singing, mountain dulcimers, hammered dulcimers, autoharps, guitars,
harmonicas, whistles, flutes, recorders, fiddles, mandolins, banjos, bass,
bowed psaltery, cello, keyboard, percussion instruments, jug, or others.
Contact us to find out about performances for your group or event.
Dulci-More Potluck Jams
Dulci-More: Folk & Traditional Musicians
generally has met on a weekend afternoon twice a year for jamming throughout
the afternoon and evening with a break in the early evening to share a potluck
dinner and fun visiting time with some of our members from farther away or
those with other activities who cannot get to our regular meetings. Check the
Dulci-More Google Calendar to see if there is one scheduled.
Dulci-More
Public Domain Songbooks
The Dulci-More Public Domain Songbooks are
designed to allow people a chance to learn and to play some of the songs that
Dulci-More plays regularly at meetings and events. The arrangements give lyrics
and melody lines in standard musical notation. Accompaniment chords are
included. Numbers for the melody string(s) for fretted dulcimers are also shown
(usually for dulcimers tuned in a DAA tuning). Click
here to find out more about the general songbooks or here to
find out more about the autoharp songbooks. Use this link to open a printable Order
Form (in a new window) to send along with your order.
Dulci-More Little Eagles After
School Program
This program is continuing during the 2007-2008
school year. Norma Firth, Sue Sabatino, and Bill Schilling are working with the
program this year.
In October 2003, Dulci-More started working on an
after school program at United Local Elementary School with students from
grades 4, 5, & 6. In January 2004, students in those grades and grade 3
were again invited to join the program, and over 15 had taken part by early
February 2004. The program was made possible when Dulci-More Executive
Committee member Lois Mountz heard that
Principal Ruth Ann Rinto was looking for new
after school programs and contacted her about this. Members of Dulci-More were
aware that one of the teachers at United Local had obtained a grant enabling
her to buy and build cardboard dulcimer kits and then to work with all the
third grade students on playing them in 2003. Permission was obtained to use
those dulcimers. Dulci-More members Norma Firth, Doris Tolley, Bonnie Lutz, and
Bill Schilling quickly agreed to join Lois
Mountz in leading the group. The group was asked if they
would like to make their first public performance at the Dulci-More Eleventh
Anniversary Concert on February
5, 2004, and at least 12 of the students were there to open each
half of the concert (with Boil Them Cabbage Down and with Rainbow
Waltz with Dulci-More members joining them on Rainbow Waltz after
they had played it through a couple of times), and they did great. Once again, Lois
Mountz had been thinking ahead, and she had asked for funding
from Dulci-More to get T-shirts for the students. A quick discussion let us
know that sports teams and others at United Local Elementary are known as the
Little Eagles, and our group then became the Dulci-More Little Eagles with the
great drawing and lettering and design done by three generations of the Mountz
family including Paige (one of the Little Eagles), her father Steve, and her
grandmother Lois. The program continued through the school year, and we heard
the Dulci-More Little Eagles in performance again at Dulci-More Festival 10.
The program has continued each school year since then to the present. Members
of the club would probably be available to join in partnership with other local
schools for similar programs.
Directions to the First United Methodist
Church
of Salem
The First United Methodist
Church of Salem is located at 244 South Broadway in Salem.
The main parking lot for the church is most easily reached by taking East Alley
from Pershing Street
between Broadway and Lundy. 1) Those coming into town from the west on State
Street (State Route 14) can stay on State
Street to Broadway in the center of downtown Salem.
Turn south (left) at the traffic light on Broadway for one block to a four way
stop at Pershing (the black stone church visible ahead on the left is it). Turn
east (left) on Pershing for half a block to a south (right) turn on East Alley
(with a sign for the Salem Historical Society and a smaller one below it for
the First United
Methodist Church)
and from there into the church parking lot. There is also on street parking on
Broadway and in other parking lots nearby. 2) Those coming into town from the
east on State Street (State Route 14) are not permitted to turn south (left)
onto Broadway in the center of downtown Salem. Thus, they should turn south (left)
at the traffic light on South Lincoln for one block to a
traffic light at Pershing. Turn west (right) on Pershing and continue for two
and one half blocks (past the four way stop at Lundy, but before the four way
stop at Broadway) to a south (left) turn on East Alley (with a sign for the
Salem Historical Society and a smaller one below it for the First United
Methodist Church) and from there into the church parking lot. There is also on
street parking on Broadway and in other parking lots nearby. 3) If coming from
the north on US 62, do not take the bypass. Instead continue straight and that
will be North Lincoln. Continue straight south on
Lincoln through the traffic light at State Street (State Route 14) onto South
Lincoln for one block to a traffic light at Pershing. Turn west (right) on
Pershing and continue for two and one half blocks (past the four way stop at
Lundy, but before the four way stop at Broadway) to a south (left) turn on East
Alley (with a sign for the Salem Historical Society and a smaller one below it
for the First United Methodist Church) and from there into the church parking
lot. There is also on street parking on Broadway and in other parking lots
nearby. 4) If coming from the north on State Route 45 continue straight rather
than taking the bypass and that will be North Ellsworth. Continue on Ellsworth
through the traffic light at State Street
(State Route 14) onto South Ellsworth for one block to a four way stop at
Pershing. Turn east (left) on Pershing and continue for one and one half blocks
(past the four way stop at Broadwy, but before the four way stop at Lundy) to a
south (right) turn on East Alley (with a sign for the Salem Historical Society
and a smaller one below it for the First United Methodist Church) and from
there into the church parking lot. There is also on street parking on Broadway
and in other parking lots nearby. 5) If coming from the south on State Route
45, do not take the bypass, but continue straight and that will be South
Lincoln. Continue on South Lincoln to a
traffic light at Pershing. Turn west (left) on Pershing and continue for two
and one half blocks (past the four way stop at Lundy, but before the four way
stop at Broadway) to a south (left) turn on East Alley (with a sign for the
Salem Historical Society and a smaller one below it for the First United
Methodist Church) and from there into the church parking lot. There is also on
street parking on Broadway and in other parking lots nearby.
Links
Mary Ann Johnston,
a Dulci-More member, is also the owner, publisher, and editor of the quarterly
magazine, Autoharp Quarterly, which is based in New Cumberland,
West Virginia. Check the Autoharp Quarterly home page at http://www.autoharpquarterly.com to
find out more about the magazine, autoharp happenings, or subscriptions. E-mail
Mary Ann at maryann@autoharpquarterly.com.
Another Dulci-More member with her own home page
which describes her dulcimer playing, books, and recordings is Linda
Sigismondi. Her home page is at http://lindasigismondi.com for those who
want to know more.
Dulci-More members Marcy and Dale Tudor have a
great farm vacation bed and breakfast called Weatherbury Farm in Avella, PA.
Find information about it at www.weatherburyfarm.com
to plan your stay southwest of Pittsburgh.
Sheep Fest started there in 2002. Plans are being made to have Folk Arts on the
Farm there, which started a concert series and jam sessions in 2004 with Bill
Schilling and will continue in 2005 with long term workshops on various
instruments. Nigel Tudor also has his forge on the farm. His web page is at http://www.blacksmith-hand-wrought-forged-iron.com.
Dulci-More shares a link with the community which
is our home base. Click here to find out more about Salem, OH.
Dulci-More is an organizational member of
Folknet: the Northeast Ohio Folk & Traditional Music and Dance Society, We
have cosponsored events with Folknet, and our members have helped at Folknet
events. Go to www.folknet.org to find out
more about Folknet. Its monthly newsletter, Continuum, lists hundreds of
acoustic events in the northeast Ohio area and beyond each month. Folknet
regularly sponsors concerts, house concerts, educational events, dances, and
other activities. Membership forms can be printed out from the web site.
We also share a link with the Mountain Rose Concert Series
centered at the Roy Smith Shelter in Fred
Fuller Park
in Kent, Ohio.
They offer second Sunday concerts most months by folk artists from our area and
beyond in a wonderful small room setting as well as running or supporting
festivals in the area. Find out what's on the schedule by checking their home
page. They also are responsible for the weekly radio program, Just
Plain Folk on WAPS-FM, 91.3, The Summit in Akron.
They have been generous in their support of Dulci-More by having Bill Schilling
in 2000; Michael Johnathon and Bill Schilling in 2001; Guy George, Demetrius
Steinmetz, and Bill Schilling in 2002; Bill Schilling and Linda
Sigismondi in 2003, Bill Schilling in 2004, Susie Large and
Bill Schilling in 2005, Leanna Mathes and Bill
Schilling in 2006, and Bing Futch and Bill
Schilling on the program the weekend of Dulci-More Festival to help us let more
people know about the festival. Since 2003, they also later broadcast the
interviews they have done at our Festivals. They also regularly have as guests
on the radio program and in the concert series many of the same artists
featured at Dulci-More Festivals. Just Plain Folk can be
heard on Tuesday evenings from 8:00-10:00 PM.
The webcast can be heard at the same time on www.wapsfm.com
anywhere.
Contact
Bill Schilling by e-mail.
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Bill Schilling's Home Page.
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Schilling
Contact Information
Bill
Schilling
984 Homewood Avenue
Salem, Ohio 44460-3816
330-332-4420
bill@billschilling.org
bill@dulcimore.org
