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

Yellowbanks Dulcimer Society

The 17th Annual Yellowbanks Dulcimer Festival is June 6 and 7, 2008

It will be held “On the Banks of the Ohio” at English Park in Owensboro, Kentucky.

The Festival will Feature the Following Performers:

 

Featiromg

Fea:

Festival Performers

2006 National Champion

Mountain Dulcimer Player

Jeff Hames From Madison, Mississippi

 

 

Jeff Hames started learning the mountain dulcimer and honoring its musical beginnings at the age of nine by watching his grandparents play. As Jeff grew so did his love of music and his ability to play songs that were not customarily played on a mountain dulcimer.

Jeff will continue to introduce the dulcimer to young and old alike. He can capture your heart with the traditional songs and hymns and capture the attention of the young person in us all with some Rock and Roll. Jeff teaches both private lessons and workshops, he also performs at festivals. His goal is to cross the many bridges of music and introduce the dulcimer to different styles of music. Jeff firmly believes that if you can hear it you can play it on a dulcimer.  Jeff wants to focus more on song writing, teaching and making more people aware of the beautiful music that can be made on the mountain dulcimer through his performances.

 

www.jeffhames.com

Joining us as a performer this year, Gary Sager has taught at the Yellowbanks Festival in years past. He has also taught at Western Carolina Dulcimer Week, North Georgia Foothill Dulcimer Festival and the Buckeye Dulcimer Festival. Gary is a vendor of folk music products and the builder of Prussia Valley Dulcimers. He and his wife Toni have recently released “Rats in the Fence Corner” on cd.

Award-winning duo Atwater-Donnelly performs a unique and thrilling blend of traditional American and Celtic folk music and dance, along with original songs and poetry.

The highly praised husband-wife duo blends gorgeous vocals with an astonishing array of instruments including the mountain dulcimer, old-time banjo, tin whistle, guitar, limberjack, mandolin, harmonica, feet and more. They often collaborate with other musicians and dancers and can be seen performing solo, as a duo, trio, four-person band, or a six-member old-time gospel band.

Based in Rhode Island, Aubrey Atwater and Elwood Donnelly have traveled extensively for nineteen years in the United States, Ireland, England, and Canada to perform as well as find their songs and dances one by one. They have produced five books and ten recordings which receive international airplay.

Explore their web site, listen to their songs, look at photos, read their poetry, and enjoy!

With roots in both African and Seminole Indian tribes, Bing Futch's window on America is a unique landscape of music, words and imagery. He began playing Appalachian mountain dulcimer at Knott's Berry Farm theme park in 1985, working at a Ghost Town shop for Bud & Donna Ford.

In 1986, Futch founded Christian techno-punk band Crazed Bunnyz, a trio that grew popular in the international underground college radio scene. Beginning his solo career that same year, he has since composed dozens of scores for film, theater, themed attractions and television. Futch left his California hometown of Los Angeles in 1993 to pursue production opportunities in central Florida where he immediately set up a multimedia company called J.O.B. Entertainment Inc.

Six years later, Mohave was born. The award-winning Americana band has performed all around the state of Florida including multiple shows at The House Of Blues at Walt Disney World, Hard Rock Live Orlando, The Bamboo Room, Freebird Live, The Orlando Fringe Festival, The Central Florida Fair and they've also opened for national acts such as Molly Hatchet, Subject To Change and The Crests.

Along with performing and teaching workshops on mountain dulcimer, Bing is an accomplished filmmaker, podcaster and published writer whose music columns in Connections Magazine have been a Florida scene staple for ten years. He and his wife Jae live in Orlando, so close to Walt Disney World that you can see the fireworks from their interstate exit.

Peggy Carter is a musician and a teacher, as well as an entertainer, and has found a medium of expressing her art that is truly satisfying. She plays traditional music on the hammer dulcimer and the mountain dulcimer and presents live musical entertainment that is out of the ordinary and has real class!

Weddings and special events.

Peggy gives private, group and correspondence lessons and has published many books that are full of sheet music with full staff notation and tablature, including tons of special player tips and instructional information. She has also performed and taught many workshops at festivals and Special Events in Texas and beyond. If you are an "Event Coordinator" and you're looking for music that's fresh with a touch of antiquity.....Contact Peggy for information."

www.PeggyCarter.com

Mountain Dulcimer Player

Kara Barnard from Nashville, Indiana

Kara Barnard is a singer-songwriter and a nationally competing multi-instrumentalist.  Already counted among the nations finest fingerstyle guitarists, she is also currently Indiana's top ranked female mandolinist.  Her Mountain Dulcimer skills earned her an invitation to perform and give workshops at an international convention in Bogota, Colombia in 1997.  Kara does more outside studio work and side player gigs with her banjo than any of her other instruments.

Kara was regularly tossed on stage by her mother's singing group at age four and made several television appearances with them as a self proclaimed stage prop.  At twelve she began booking herself as a solo act.  Both her parents are performing musicians and she proudly lays claim to being descended from a host of bizarre vaudevillian relatives. 

Each year Kara Barnard gives over 100 performances and sells thousands of copies of her six CDs, Cheshire Cat Moon , The Water's Edge Home, Fret Hopping in Brown County, Dishpan Brigade and Brown County Waltz.

 

 

www.karabarnard.com

www.bingfutch.com

www.prussiavalley.com

www.atwater-donnelly.com

Emcee for the Festival

Micah Cox (Mike Chaney) from Owensboro, Kentucky

Mike Chaney is returning as the Emcee in 2008 after having been with us in 2007.  Mike is the news director with the Cromwell Radio Group.  The Cromwell Radio group includes the following seven stations: 94.7 WBIO, 97X, CJ105.7, 102.7 WLME, 1420 am WVJS, 1160 am WKCM, and 1230 am WTCJ on which Mike’s newscasts may be heard. Mike stays active in the community in order to give the listener the local news without opinion.

Clogging Workshops and Demos Barry Lanham and

The Footstompin’ Express from

Owensboro, Kentucky

www.clogger.net
Folk Music Group
Atwater-Donnelly From Foster, Rhode Island

www.Atwater-Donnelly.com

Mountain Dulcimer Player
Bing Futch From Orlando, Florida.

 

 

Hammered Dulcimer Player

Peggy Carter from Spring, Texas
Mountain Dulcimer Teacher/Performer
Gary Sager from Waverly, Ohio

   

 

 

 

Kara Barnard is a singer-songwriter and a nationally competing multi-instrumentalist.  Already counted among the nations finest fingerstyle guitarists, she is also currently Indiana's top ranked female mandolinist.  Her Mountain Dulcimer skills earned her an invitation to perform and give workshops at an international convention in Bogota, Colombia in 1997.  Kara does more outside studio work and side player gigs with her banjo than any of her other instruments.
Kara was regularly tossed on stage by her Mother's singing group at age four and made several television appearances with them as a self proclaimed stage prop.  At twelve she began booking herself as a solo act.  Both her parents are performing musicians and she proudly lays claim to being descended from a host of bizarre vaudevillian relatives. 

Also a talented visual artist, before Kara discovered the guitar at ten she was the curator of her own art gallery, showing her work behind several roped off areas of her converted bedroom.  Weak attendance forced the young Kara into the music business at an early age.

Each year Kara Barnard gives over 100 performances and sells thousands of copies of her six CDs, Cheshire Cat Moon , The Water's Edge Home, Fret Hopping in Brown County, Dishpan Brigade and Brown County Waltz.

In addition to solo performances Kara has worked live and/or in the studio with many nationally recognized artists and bands such as Sindacato (co-producting their 3rd CD, Logan County), Tret Fure, Feron, Wishing Chair, Jamie Anderson, Slats Klug, Beth Lodge-Rigal and Buzzy Jones .

Kara works with hundreds of guitar, mandolin, banjo and dulcimer students each year. Beginners to advanced students seek her out for her technical excellence and outstanding teaching skills.

 

Biography

Kara Barnard is a singer-songwriter and a nationally competing multi-instrumentalist.  Already counted among the nations finest fingerstyle guitarists, she is also currently Indiana's top ranked female mandolinist.  Her Mountain Dulcimer skills earned her an invitation to perform and give workshops at an international convention in Bogota, Colombia in 1997.  Kara does more outside studio work and side player gigs with her banjo than any of her other instruments.
Kara was regularly tossed on stage by her Mother's singing group at age four and made several television appearances with them as a self proclaimed stage prop.  At twelve she began booking herself as a solo act.  Both her parents are performing musicians and she proudly lays claim to being descended from a host of bizarre vaudevillian relatives. 

Also a talented visual artist, before Kara discovered the guitar at ten she was the curator of her own art gallery, showing her work behind several roped off areas of her converted bedroom.  Weak attendance forced the young Kara into the music business at an early age.

Each year Kara Barnard gives over 100 performances and sells thousands of copies of her six CDs,