INSTRUCTORS!

2009 REDWOOD DULCIMER DAY WORKSHOP LEADERS
Past guest workshop leaders have included: Connie Allen, Janita Baker, Bonnie Carol, Robert Force, Lance Frodsham, Paul Furnas, Bing Futch, Lois Hornbostel, Joellen Lapidus, and Michael Rugg!

NEW THIS YEAR! Dulcimer Day welcomes award-winning Linda Brockinton of Alexander, Arkansas. Linda began playing the dulcimer in 1988 and started teaching the instrument in 1990. In 2001 she won the National Mountain Dulcimer Championships, the first woman ever to accomplish this feat in the 30-year history of the competition! Her specialty is fingerpicking, which she showcases in her several recordings and tab books. Linda also plays flute (she played previously with the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra), harp, guitar, hammered dulcimer, and bodhran. We're excited that Linda will be adding Redwood Dulcimer Weekend to the long list of camps and festivals that she has taught at across the country. http://www.lindabrockinton.com/

NEW THIS YEAR! Dulcimer Day welcomes Dan Daniels of Yreka, California! Dan is a performer and teacher of mountain dulcimer, claw hammer banjo and guitar, and is also a master builder of stringed instruments. His company, New Traditions Dulcimers, began in Washington State in 1982 and now serves the Northern California area of Siskiyou County and Southern Oregon and beyond. Also a local church pastor, Dan has two CD recordings of Old Timey gospel and standards: Old Country Church and When You And I Were Young. Dan's performances have taken him from the West Coast to the East and back again, and we're delighted he'll be visiting us this July! http://www.newtraditionsdulcimers.com

Neal Hellman, founder of Gourd music, is a nationally acclaimed dulcimer performer, workshop leader, recording artist and author of numerous books for the dulcimer. His CDs include Emma's Waltz, Oktober Country, Dream of the Manatee and Autumn in the Valley. His books include It's a Dulcimer Life, The Dulcimer Chord Book, The Hal Leonard Dulcimer Method, Beatles Dulcimer Book, The Music of the Shakers for Mountain Dulcimer, and Celtic Songs and Slow Airs for Mountain Dulcimer.

Peter Tommerup (RDD co-founder) has been playing and teaching dulcimer since 1973. He has arranged hundreds of tunes for the dulcimer and has taught them to hundreds of students in the greater San Francisco Bay Area. He has performed at several major festivals and is author of the Kicking Mule tutorial, Teach Yourself to Play the Dulcimer Currently he teaches dulcimer at Gryphon Stringed Instruments in Palo Alto.

Janet Herman (RDD co-founder) is a multi-instrumentalist instructor with Community Music School of Santa Cruz and has been playing dulcimer since her teens. She is also an accomplished singer and is featured on Neal Hellman's Celtic Songs and Slow Airs for Mountain Dulcimer and other recordings. With a doctorate in folklore/ethnomusicology, Janet is an authority on shape-note singing and an avid arranger of all kinds of songs for dulcimer.

Ron Beardslee has been playing mountain dulcimer for about 20 years and is the organizer of our quarterly Redwood Dulcimer Gatherings. He has produced a tab book for beginners and resides in the East Bay where he also gives mountain dulcimer lessons.