CTO … Ken Kolodner passing through the Triangle area in November. Any leads on a concert op?

Check This Out … Ken Kolodner and son, Brad, will be heading to Charleston, SC this coming November 7-8  to play a concert (and contra dance) plus fiddle and banjo workshops. They are looking for a house concert or other concert opportunity in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area on Nov 6 or Nov 9. Any ideas? Contact Ken!

Monday's Muse

37,000 flags planted in Boston Common to honor the fallen soldiers of Massachusetts
~ from Revolutionary War to present time ~

CTO … Photos Taken Inside Instruments

Now this is a different perspective! Imagine shrinking small enough to climb into a musical instrument. Any photographers out there interested in giving us the inside scoop on a hammered dulcimer?

Check This Out … Photographs taken by Mierswa Kluska for the Berlin Philharmonic, concept by Björn Ewers and Mona Sibai. It's like stepping into another world! Check out Björn's gallery, Instruments from the Inside .

Monday's Muse

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
~ Henry Ward Beecher

CTO … True or False? You must get permission to play somebody else's music in a public performance.

Check This Out … Steve Smith taught an interesting and helpful class about copyright issues at the Winston Salem Dulcimer Festival a couple of weekends ago. Steve Eulberg recently wrote an easy to read, easy to understand blog post regarding the topic. Educate yourself.

http://dulcimercrossing.wordpress.com/2014/05/07/some-copyright-issues-for-dulcimer-players-of-music/

BTW … the answer is false

Monday's Muse

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. When you are seeking to bring big plans to fruition, it is important with whom you regularly associate. Hang out with friends who are like-minded and who are also designing purpose-filled lives. Similarly, be that kind of a friend for your friends.  ~ Mark Twain

CTO … Happy 35th Birthday, Dusty Strings!

35 years and 35,000 instruments later …
Check This Out … the TRUE story of how Dusty Strings came to be.

http://manufacturing.dustystrings.com/blog/2014/04/dusty-strings-hammered-dulcimer-1/