Jonesborough’s Dulcimer Week celebrates the role of the Appalachian mountain dulcimer in American life with seven days of dulcimer-infused performances, workshops and hands-on opportunities to experience the dulcimer and other forms of art in Tennessee’s Oldest Town.
Try your hand at the dulcimer during a workshop or sit back and enjoy the many mountain dulcimer concerts dotted throughout Jonesborough.
Below is the full Jonesborough’s Dulcimer schedule:
Monday, May 14, 2018
12:30 – 1:30pm Needle Felting demo w/ Deb Burger
1 – 3:00 Guitar and Mountain Dulcimer w/ Phil Ling and Don Burger
Make Your Own Jewelry w/ Tami Moore
EUREKA INN, 12 W Main Street
7-9:00 Duos with Dulcimers:
Don Burger and Phil Ling, “Unsung (Dulcimer) Heroes”
“Alathea,” Mandee Radford Langley and Cristi Johnson Reilly
MOCKINGBIRD MUSIC ROOM, 210 Spring Street (“train yard”)
Tuesday, May 15, 2018
11am-2pm Make Your Own Pottery: Barb Cara
ONE-40-FOUR GALLERY, 144 East Main Street
Noon – 5pm Dulcimer Troubadour: Don Burger as “Jeremiah Potter”
12pm Storytelling Library at Mill Spring Park
2pm PAUL’S PENS, 105 Fox St
4pm Tennessee Hills Distillery, 127 Fox St
Wednesday, May 16, 2018
Noon-1pm Renaissance Strings from Kingsport
STORYTELLING PLAZA
1:30-2:30 Cloudland Circle Dulcimers from Roan Mountain
and Hands On Drawing/Painting with Caroline Lowery
MAUK’S CORNER
7-8:30 pm Soothing Evening Dulcimers
EUREKA INN
Thursday, May 17, 2018
2-4:00pm Make Your Own Pottery: Noriah Shaw and Stephanie Nichols
BOONE STREET MARKET, 101 Boone Street
2:30-4:30 Hands On Drawing / Painting : Tom Root
ROOT STUDIO, 139 1/2 East Main Street
Musical Appetizers: Don Burger
DOWNTOWN SWEET, 137 East Main Street
5-8:00. Tasty Guitar and Dulcimer Music: Phil Ling and Don Burger
Friday, May 18, 2018
12:30-1:30 Needle Felting Demonstration : Deb Burger
1:30-2:30 Land of Waterfalls Dulcimer Players
CHUCKEY DEPOT MUSEUM, 110 S 2nd Ave
7 – 9:00 Music on the Square, featuring:
“Thistle Dew:” foot-stompin, Celti-lachian Trio!
Tull Glazener: Dulcimer Master Extraodinaire!
at the COURTHOUSE (Rainout location: The Corner Cup)
Saturday, May 19, 2018
9-10:30 Experienced Dulcimer Players Clinic: Tull Glazener
10:30 – Noon Beginning Dulcimer: Tull and area instructors
bring a dulcimer, or borrow one of ours for the clinic
1:30-3:00 Experienced Players Clinic Part 2
4-6pm Eureka Inn’s “Root Beer Garden Gala! ”
* locally-sourced sodas and other goodies
* home-brewed dulcimer music with Tull Glazener and More!
EUREKA INN COURTYARD, 127 W Main Street
Sunday, May 20, 2018
11am Jonesborough Presbyterian Church Service
Worshipful Dulcimer Music, with Deb and Don Burger
JONESBOROUGH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 128 West Main Street
