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 3 Sheets' new CD
The Light of Assateague
Is available
Listen to minute-long clips of all
thirteen tracks at this link
3 Sheets - The Light of Assateague
Buy the CD
COMMON GROUND STUDENTS
Class Notes are on the website! Pick up your course handouts at these links
Beginning Hammer Dulcimer
Whistle II
Bodhran
Composition
Demystifing the Modes
Visit these links to experinece wonderful live music!
3 Sheets is the house band at the Kite Koop! Catch us every 2nd Saturday from April through November (except July). Its a free, two-set show!
Two magical weeks each July
• Deer Creek fiddler's convention in June
• Roots Music & Art weekend festival in July
• Monthly Concerts September - April
Find concerts, festivals and art events on Chincoteague Island
• A dozen or more concerts each year
• Waterfront festivals each year
• A plein air art exhibition and sale each September
• Free movies at the waterfront each summer
• A weekend photo contest each summer
The monthly session at Sundial Books generally run on the third Friday of each month. Check out their website for performances, readings and book signings. Sundial Books
House concerts December - April
on Chincoteague Island
Find house concerts
near where you live
Happenings.........
Fall Concerts on Chincoteague:
Sparky & Rhonda Rucker -Spell-binding singers & story tellers
Ruth Wyand- One of Americans best guitar stylists and a fabulous blues player.
Greg Trooper- Greg returns for a 2nd appearance. He is "the songwriter's songwriter".
Click Here to check out the line up of performers through 2012. Okay, so you don't live here. Book some vacation time to visit Chincoteague. See the beach, eat some good seafood and come to a concert :)
April 7: Three Sheets will begins its 2011 concert season at the Museum of Chincoteague Island.
Three Sheets will conclude its 2011 concert series at the Marine Sciences Consortium in November. We are part of the evening program for the educational programs presented by MSC. Our 2012 dates are set. The list will be updated soon.
→ That's the Marine Science Consortium
They do really great work in science and education. Check them out Marine Sciences Consortium....."hands-on, feet-wet education"
Three Sheets will conclude its 2011 concert series at the Museum of Chincoteague Island in October. We are part of the evening program for the educational programs presented by MSC. Our 2012 dates will be updated soon.
Music Classes: If you are on the Island and in need of dulcimer and music lessons, drop in for the free two hour sessions most Wednesdays at 10 a.m. Email to check the schedule.
2012 Summer Courses at Common Ground on the Hill: Details for the summer 2012 Traditions Weeks and the Roots Music and Arts Festival at Common Ground on the Hill will be available early in 2012 at: www.commongroundonthehill.org I'm working on booking the hammer dulcimer staff right now. Announcements as soon as I can!!!
During Week 1 (July 1 - 6)
I'll teach beginners. Got a friend who wants to learn to play the hammer dulcimer? Send them to Common Ground. FREE loaner instruments available for the week. Returning faculty include: Ken Kolodner,David Lindsey and Joe Healy. More announcements coming. I'm planning a Bodhran 2 course to include unusual meter, tonality, top down style, how touse microphones on the drum.
Roots Music and Arts Festival ( July 7 - 8)
The entire Common Ground Faculty will perform.
During Week 2 (July 8 - 13)
I'll teach Demystifying the Modes again and probably another course too. Two stars in the hammer dulcimer world will be teaching this week. Stand by for announcements. It will be a GREAT summer at Common Ground. Make your plans early!
Mel Bay's Dulcimer Sessions: Check out my new article for Mel Bay's ezine Dulcimer Sessions. This one is about ensemble arranging. The tune is The Lakes of Pontchartrain. You can read about the history of the tune, review how an ensemble arrangement is created and hear a performance of the tune in ensemble form. Click here!
Dulcimer Radio: Can't find enough dulcimer music? No problem, tune into Dulcimer Radio on the Internet. 24x 7 hammer and mountain dulcimer music: Dulcimer Radio
Sponsored by the North Harris County Dulcimer Society of Houston, Texas. What a GREAT thing for a dulcimer club to do!!!!
Spring Tide on the Tump
IS HERE!!!!!
Click here to order
Click here for audio samples of the new CD
Walt Michael & Bill performing in the
Chincoteague Unplugged Summer
Concert Series
 
♦ Check out my articles in Mel Bay's ezine Dulcimer Sessions:
The Hammered Mbira
Three voices for Three Kings
Revisioning Familiar Tunes
The Lakes of Pontchartrain in Four Voices
♦ Visit the website of the inventor of the Hammered Mbira, Don MacLane
Visit Cittern Group
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