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Don Pedi Live Workshop

Songs of the Heart

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Live Workshop with Don Pedi: Love Songs from Applachia

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Don Pedi will be joining us on

Thurs, Feb 10th 5 pm MST

4 pm PST - 6 pm CST - 7 pm EST 

Songs of the Heart

Traditional Songs and Ballads, or as they are called in the mountains "Old Love Songs" pertaining to affairs of the heart.
Romantic songs from Southern Appalachia.
Most with happy endings.

A mountain dulcimer-focused workshop (with hammered dulcimer translation).

 

DulcimerCrossing Workshop & Mentorship Level Subscribers have access to this Live Event and its archive video.

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Mountain Dulcimer Sighting!

by Steve Eulberg It is always exciting to uncover or bump into another dulcimer sighting, in the course of one's daily life (and/or internet searching!) In this video there is a visual and audio sighting of Frank Profitt playing and singing the ballad Barbara Allen from 8:46-11:09.

His part of the video footage is from the Alan Lomax Collection The Theme:  The Cultures of the Scots-Irish in the New world, the role that music plays on both sides of the Atlantic, during the passage across the s…

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Don Pedi featured in an article

DulcimerCrossing Instructor, Don Pedi is featured in this article on the facebook page:See Again Sunday:  (From Humans of Central Appalachia)

"When I moved back into the mountains, I moved back in with people who had lived there for generations. My neighbors to this day still plow with mules and horses."

Don Pedi, Renowned Old Time Mountain Dulcimer Player; Born in Boston, rambled around until he found his home in the mountains; Marshall, North Carolina:

“I got interested in traditional music throu…

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