Dulcimer Week in the Wallowas

We just wrapped up our 10th Dulcimer Week a week ago. Campers are sending in photos... here are a few.

A few photos from the start of camp from our camper Karen Robertson.

Dulcimer Week is off to a great start. The jams have been amazing! Lots of diverse instruments this year. Here are a few pix from last night.

Here's Bob getting our new "hammered" dulcimer ready for the camp raffle!

Wallowa Dulcimer |

Dulcimer Week has less than 10 seats left in its classes that start on July 3 in northeast Oregon. Our remaining lodging is limited, and we are requiring proof of vaccination and booster. We have a few scholarships available. If you're interested, please visit and send an email from www.wallowadulcimer.com.

Wallowa Dulcimer | Wallowa Lake, OregonWelcome to beautiful Wallowa Lake, home of Dulcimer Week in the Wallowas. Come to our 10th Annual Dulcimer Week in the Wallowas, July 3-9, 2022! Registration will open to the public on March 1, 2022 (Vaccinations and boosters will be required) Our camps are held at beautiful Wall...

Another Zoom teaching day for Heidi Muller and friends. 💜

My office today.

Wallowa Dulcimer |

Our camp still has room for a few more people, especially in the Beginners' class. Dates are July 3-9 and instructors are Susan Trump, Jeff Furman, Dave Haas, and Bob Webb. Our cabins are full but we still have RV space (limited hookups), tent space, and spots in the women's bunkhouse. Local folks are welcome to commute! Registration goes up on May 1 but will stay open into June. If you're interested, please visit our website and get in touch with me at wallowadulcimer-at-gmail-dot-com. Thanks! www.wallowadulcimer.com

Wallowa Dulcimer | Wallowa Lake, OregonWelcome to beautiful Wallowa Lake, home of Dulcimer Week in the Wallowas. Come to our 10th Annual Dulcimer Week in the Wallowas, July 3-9, 2022! Registration will open to the public on March 1, 2022 (Vaccinations and boosters will be required) Our camps are held at beautiful Wall...

We still have room for a few students at Dulcimer Week in the Wallowas this July 3-9! Our beginner class with Bob Webb has several openings. Bob gets rave reviews every year... he starts from scratch and shows a different technique every day along with fun tunes. He also explains chords and using a capo, giving students the tools they need to keep growing after they go home. Read about camp and register at www.wallowadulcimer.com.

Registration for Dulcimer Week in the Wallowas is opening this Tuesday, March 1! Camp will be held July 3-9, 2022 at Wallowa Lake, OR with Susan Trump, Dave Haas, Jeff Furman, and Bob Webb as instructors. As long as the pandemic becomes more manageable, we're planning this as an in-person camp and don't anticipate offering online classes. For more information, please visit our website at www.wallowadulcimer.com.

Registration for our 2022 Dulcimer Week is being postponed to March 1 due to the recent COVID surge, so folks can have a little more time to decide on summer plans. To learn more about our camp, please visit our website at www.wallowadulcimer.com.

Dulcimer friends - Heidi Muller still has room in her QuaranTune classes next weekend, and registration ends tomorrow at 5 pm PDT. Hope to see you there!

QuaranTune 5.0 registration ends tomorrow evening, Oct. 2. I still have room in all of my classes, so please consider signing up! One I'd like to mention is my class in DAG Tuning and the Dorian mode - it's one of the four traditional dulcimer tunings and I'll teach you some interesting tunes, including one for the holidays!

Here's a little tour through our Wallowa Retreat held in July. Enjoy!

Wallowa Dulcimer Retreat 4th of July Jam Clip

Happy 4th, everyone! Here's a little afternoon jam playing "Camp Meeting on the 4th of July." Kathy Howell Karen Boulter Robertson

https://youtu.be/4EJwZtpke88

Wallowa Dulcimer Retreat 4th of July Jam Clip Dave Haas, Kathy Howell, Karen Robertson, Barbara-Lee Jordan, and Chris Wolfe circle up to play "Camp Meeting on the 4th of July" at the Wallowa Dulcimer Ret...

Wallowa Retreat's "hybrid" jam went really well tonight. Here are some shots that capture how we did it. The credit goes to Bob Webb for thinking through the technical approach and to Karen Robertson for sitting on the floor in headphones, monitoring our Zoomers. On top of that, the music was really good! Dave Haas was a great jam leader, as always. We took requests from Zoomers as well as people in-person. Our week is off to a good start!

Early volunteers start setting up our outdoor classroom for the Wallowa Retreat!

Heidi here... Bob and I are in high gear getting ready for our Wallowa Dulcimer Retreat. It's the first "hybrid" dulcimer festival in the country, combining both in-person and virtual students on Zoom. Bob's about to drive to Spokane to pick up our guest instructor, Dave Haas, an old friend of ours from West Virginia. The retreat starts this Saturday and classes run July 4th-8th. No one has to worry about freezing in their tents this year! Here's Dave leading one of our jams in 2019.

Would you like to attend our "hybrid" 2021 Wallowa Dulcimer Retreat online? We're starting an email list of interested folks as we get close to opening registration. Dates for Zoom activities will be July 3-8 and our two online class tracks will be Advanced Beginner/Intermediate and Intermediate/Advanced, taught by Dave Haas and Heidi Muller. (Beginner classes are only offered in person.) If you'd like to be notified, please email us at [email protected]. Thanks!

Faculty Concerts | Berkeley Dulcimer Gathering

Dulcimer Week past instructors Heidi Muller & Bob Webb, Deborah Hamouris, and Steve Eulberg are among the folks giving concerts this weekend for the Berkeley Dulcimer Gathering. Heidi & Bob close the concert tonight! It runs 6:30-8:00 PDT, and tickets for both nights are available here: https://berkeleydulcimergathering.com/faculty-concerts/

Faculty Concerts | Berkeley Dulcimer Gathering The Berkeley Dulcimer Gathering is back on Online Concert Thing! How it works... Friday 5/14, 6:30pm PDT will be:DJ Hamouris, Steve Eulberg, Dusty Thorburn, Heidi Muller Buy Tickets!Heidi MullerMountain Dulcimer & Songwritingheidimuller.comDusty ThorburnMountain Dulcimerrivercitydulcimers.comSteve E...

We're having a small "hybrid" Wallowa Dulcimer Retreat in early July at Wallowa Lake with instructors Dave Haas, Heidi Muller, and Bob Webb. Zoom classes and activities will be added, as in-person attendance has already filled. Watch this space for Zoom schedule and registration info to come soon! Our camp is nestled in the woods at the far end of this photo by Karen Robertson.

Dulcimer Week is planning a Wallowa Dulcimer Retreat with limited capacity, mainly outdoor classes and activities, and vaccinations required, to be held at Wallowa Lake July 3-9, 2021. Our instructors will be Dave Haas, Heidi Muller, and Bob Webb. We've invited our longtime regular attendees to sign up first and we're full right now. We have a waiting list started, so if anyone wants to be on it or wants info about our 2022 camp with Susan Trump, Dave Haas, Jeff Furman, and Bob Webb, please email wallowadulcimer-at-gmail-dot-com. Thanks! (photo by Nicole O'Rourke)

Wallowa Dulcimer |

Registration Update:
Due to the constantly changing situation around COVID-19 and people's different safety levels about getting together in groups, we are NOT OPENING REGISTRATION ON MARCH 12, 2021 as planned. We expect that our camp will go forward in more of a retreat form this year. When we have the details worked out, it will be posted here and on our website.

Many of our past participants already pre-registered for 2021. Our camp capacity will be more limited than usual, so we have started a WAITING LIST for additional people, until we can know how many from our prepaid group wish to join us. Please email [email protected] if you'd like to be on that list!

We hope and expect to have a proper 10th Annual Dulcimer Week in 2022, from July 3-9, with Susan Trump, Dave Haas, Jeff Furman, and Bob Webb as instructors. See www.wallowadulcimer.com for more info.

Wallowa Dulcimer | Wallowa Lake, OregonWelcome to beautiful Wallowa Lake, home of Dulcimer Week in the Wallowas. Join us for our 10th Annual Dulcimer Week in the Wallowas, July 3-9, 2022! 3-11-21 Update: We will not be opening camp registration on Friday, March 12, 2021 as previously hoped. We’re planning a differen...

Five women in the dulcimer community will be giving this concert to raise money for their sister instructor, Wendy Songe. Wendy has had a tough time since last fall and we'd like to help her out! Details on her GoFundMe campaign (do a search on her name on their website to bring up her page).

Happy to be a part of this fundraising concert for Wendy Songe! Please donate and join us.

Due to the uncertainty of being able to have our camp this year, registration will be postponed from February 1 to March 12, 2021. We hope this extra time will help us know more clearly whether it will be safe to gather in early July. We look forward to jamming again with Dave Haas like we did in 2019!

Registration opens this Thursday, Sept. 3 at 12 am Eastern (Wed. night 9 pm Pacific) for the virtual North Georgia fall dulcimer festival. Our own Heidi Muller will be teaching 10 workshops during the event! Visit the website now to plan your schedule and be ready to register early. If you've done QuaranTune, you know how fast classes can fill up!

Our past camper, Nikki O'Rourke, went backpacking in the Wallowas last week and took these marvelous photos of Mirror Lake with Eagle Cap peak above it. She's a professional photographer as well as a dulcimer player! You can see more of her work at Nicole O'Rourke Photography. Thanks, Nikki, for showing us some of the views from the mountains up above our camp.

Help for Lyric (and babies) with Covid-19 organized by Lisa Rueth

Debbie Porter is near and dear to our dulcimer community as the founder of the Dulcimers for David program. She was also guest instructor at our Wallowa fall retreat a few years ago. We've just learned that Debbie's daughter Lyric and grandson De are sick with COVID19 and could use some help. Please consider giving to this fundraiser.

Help for Lyric (and babies) with Covid-19 organized by Lisa Rueth Lyric, daughter of my closest friend Debbie Porter, is 7-months pregnant and very… Lisa Rueth needs your support for Help for Lyric (and babies) with Covid-19

Skills & Fills Lesson Series for mountain dulcimer players - YouTube

We got a note from "Slidin' Mike" (Mike Squint), who's created a series of free YouTube dulcimer lessons called "Skills&Fills." He invites players to check them out and says he'll keep adding more videos.

Here's the link for Skills&Fills:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnvW3i92MmMwJj__dXW4BoJ34M_AlZCC8

The Slidin' Mike YouTube channel has other tutorials for individual songs such as "All I Have To Do Is Dream", "Help Me Make It Through The Night", and "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry". They make use of the skills in the Skills&Fills series while teaching one specific song using his arrangement. Slidin' Mike's Channel link:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHySqDVYY32MnlfSoQ-V_FQ

Skills & Fills Lesson Series for mountain dulcimer players - YouTube

The latest Hearts of the Dulcimer Podcast features your Dulcimer Week organizers, Heidi and Bob, talking about ways to grow with the dulcimer at home. Enjoy!

Hearts of the Dulcimer Podcast #48:
Stay Home and Play Dulcimer: with Heidi Muller and Bob Webb

https://dulcimuse.com/podcast/resource/048.html

Here’s another episode we created especially for dulcimer players.

We spoke with Heidi Muller and Bob Webb, who shared tips and ideas for using time at home to improve your dulcimer playing.

Help keep the podcast going by purchasing dulcimer inspired items at our store or donate on our support page.
Your support helps us with the costs of hosting the podcast files and website, equipment, travel, and production costs. Please know that whatever you offer is received with much gratitude!

Store: https://dulcimuse.com/store.html
Support page: https://dulcimuse.com/podcast/support.html

Today on the east moraine at Wallowa Lake, by Ellen Morris Bishop.

View from terminal moraine today. Photo, Ellen Morris Bishop

Hello, friends, we are sorry to announce that our 10th Annual Dulcimer Week in the Wallowas will not happen this year after all, due to the uncertainty and risk of the COVID-19 situation. Our new dates are July 4-10, 2021, with our same instructors: Susan Trump, Dave Haas, Jeff Furman and Bob Webb. We're closing registration for the rest of this year and plan to reopen by early 2021. Please visit our website and email us if you have questions or would like to attend in 2021. Thanks! www.wallowadulcimer.com

Join us at Dulcimer Week this year! You'll make new friends like this good-looking group of students.

Dulcimer Week 2020 is filling up fast! Don't miss your chance to join us at Wallowa Lake. We have five spots left in the beginner class, seven in advanced beginner, and only two left in intermediate. The advanced class is full. Register now at www.wallowadulcimer.com!

Registration is now open for Dulcimer Week in the Wallowas, June 28-July 4, 2020, at wallowadulcimer.com!

A beautiful winter's day at Wallowa Lake. Only 161 days till our 10th Annual Dulcimer Week! Registration opens on February 1 at wallowadulcimer.com.

Thinking about coming to Dulcimer Week in 2020? Please visit our website and email us with any questions, at wallowadulcimer.com