“On the Banks of the Ohio” in Owensboro, Kentucky

Yellowbanks Dulcimer Society

Festival Schedule

Mountain Dulcimer Workshops are in DAD

Unless Otherwise Indicated

FREE workshops—No registration

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Yellowbanks Dulcimer Festival Schedule

June 6 and 7, 2008 – English Park – Owensboro, Ky.

Friday, June 6

12:00 – 12:30 p.m. Organize / Meet n’ Greet

12:30 – 1:30 p.m. Workshops (Session 1)

1:45 – 2:45 p.m. Workshops (Session 2)

3:00 – 4:15 p.m. Open Stage – Sign up in the Yellowbanks Booth

4:30 – 5:30 p.m. Clogging workshop - Aubrey Atwater and Elwood Donnelly

4:30 – 5:30 p.m. Open Jam with Jeff Hames

5:30 – 7 p.m. Dinner Break

7 – 10 p.m. Evening Concert

Saturday, June 7

9:00 – 9:30 a.m. Organize / Meet n’ Greet

9:30 – 10:30 a.m. Workshops (Session 1)

10:45 – 11:45 a.m. Workshops (Session 2)

11:45 – 12:30 p.m. Lunch Break – Food available on-site

12:30 – 1:30 p.m. Workshops (Session 3)

1:45 – 2:45 p.m. Workshops (Session 4)

3:00 – 3:45 p.m. Mini- Concert – Each of the evening performers will give a brief preview of the evening’s concert.

3:45 – 4:30 p.m. Open Stage – Sign up in the Yellowbanks Booth

4:30 – 5:30 p.m. Clogging workshop / demonstration– Barry Lanham

4:30 – 5:30 p.m. Open Jam with Jeff Hames

5:30 – 7 p.m. Dinner Break

7 – 10 p.m. Evening Concert

Friday’s Workshops

12:30 – 1:30 p.m. Workshops (Session 1)

MD (Rank Beg.)-Beg. MD with Bing – Bing Futch

MD (Beg.) – “A Little Bit of Dolly” (Embellishments on a Dolly

Parton classic) - Jeff Hames

MD (Int.) – Playing Chord/Melody Style, DAD - Gary Sager

HD (Beg. Level 1) – Two Hymns: Ode to Joy, Amazing Grace –

Peggy Carter

Guitar (Beg.) – Jeff Hardesty

Bowed Psaltery (Beg.) - Getting to Know Your Bowed Psaltery–

Carol Esch

Banjo (Beg. / Int.) – Songs on Appalachian Clawhammer -

Aubrey Atwater

Fiddle – Randy Lanham

1:45 – 2:45 p.m. Workshops (Session 2)

MD (All Levels) – Primal MD – Bing Futch

MD (Beg.) –Tuning, Timing and Tablature for the Reluctant Beginner - Kara Barnard

MD (Int.) – Let’s Do a Duet! - Jeff Hames

HD (Beg. Level 2) – Lazy LH Syndrome – Peggy Carter

Guitar (Int. / Adv.) – Jeff Hardesty

Percussion (All Levels) – Percussion for Fun and Enhancement

– Elwood Donnelly

Autoharp (Beg.) – Chords of a key, strumming patterns applied to simple melodies - Toni Sager

Fiddle – Randy Lanham

Saturday’s Workshops

9:30 – 10:30 a.m. Workshops (Session 1)

MD (Rank Beg) – “So This is a Mountain Dulcimer” (expla-

nation, strumming, scale practice; DAA and DAD) -Gary Sager

MD (Beg. / Int.) – Songs of Jean Ritchie – Atwater / Donnelly

MD (Int) – Adding Feeling to the Songs - Jeff Hames

MD (Adv.) – How to embellish songs with hammer ons, pull ons, slides and fills - Kara Barnard

HD – (Int.) – Red, White and Bluegrass – Peggy Carter

Bowed Psaltery (Int./Adv.) – Duets and Double Bowing -

Carol Esch

Penny Whistle (Beg. / Int.) – Doug Felt

10:45 – 11:45 a.m. Workshops (Session 2)

MD (Beg.) – Playing simple melodies DAD - Gary Sager

MD (Int.) – Coping in a Jam Session – Aubrey Atwater

MD (Int. / Adv.) – MD Improvisation – Bing Futch

HD (Adv.) – Playing Irish Jigs and Reels – Peggy Carter

Guitar (Int. / Adv.) – Guitar Theory: navigating the fretboard, playing scales and chord progressions - Kara Barnard

Bodhran – Doug Felt

12:30 – 1:30 p.m. Workshops (Session 3)

MD (Rank Beg.) – “Ins” and “outs” of your strum - Jeff Hames

MD (Int.) – Slides, hammer-ons, pull-offs, flatpicking, some

repertoire; DAD - Gary Sager

MD (Int. / Adv.) – Dark Side of the MD – Bing Futch

Tin Whistle (Beg. / Int.) – Slow Airs and Song Acc. – Aubrey

Atwater

Harmonica (Beg. / Int.) – Diatonic Harmonica (Key of D) –

Elwood Donnelly

Mandolin (All levels) – Kara Barnard

1:45 – 2:45 p.m. Workshops ( Session 4)

MD (Int.) – Adventures in Ionian – Bing Futch

MD (Adv.) –Cool Groove (a traditional song with hot licks and

modulations) - Jeff Hames

MD and HD Ensemble (Int.) “Star of Hope”, an original

Christmas tune – Peggy Carter

MD (Adv.) – Repertoire; some capo; DAD - Gary Sager

Banjo (Adv.) – Moveable chord theory, scales and playing up

the neck - Kara Barnard

Percussion (All Levels) – Percussion for Fun and Enhancement

– Elwood Donnelly

Autoharp - Chord Accompaniment with common jam tunes –

Toni Sager

Sue Claiborne of Portland, TN held the winning raffle ticket for the McSpadden Mountain Dulcimer at the 2007 Yellowbanks Dulcimer Festival.

yellowbanks@bellsouth.net