Photos from past years have been posted to our facebook page. They came from a variety of folks. Thanks for letting us share them.
Did you know... Our Association's logo is a red chile ristra, a traditional New Mexican decoration. This is a string of dried chile pepper pods that is usually hung. We put a ristra in all our t-shirt designs. If you're ordering New Mexican cuisine at a local restaurant, you'll be asked if you want red or green (chile). If you want both, you just say you want "Christmas."
(No festival in 2022)
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12th Annual New Mexico Dulcimer Festival
Online/Stay-at-Home
(October 15-16, 2021)
- Instructors:
Colin Beasley (hammered dulcimer),
Carol Crocker (mountain dulcimer),
Carrie Crompton (hammered dulcimer) with Eclectica trio,
Sarah (Elizabeth) McWhirt-Toler (mountain dulcimer),
Karen Mueller (mountain dulcimer, autoharp),
Nate Pultorak (hammered dulcimer),
Irma Reeder (mountain dulcimer),
Scott Reeder (hammered dulcimer, bowed psaltery) ,
Jim Ruff (ukulele),
Michele Spiro (autoharp)
- 46 online workshops offered
- Virtual online open mics, jams, and "Coffee" with instructors
- Virtual online evening concerts
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2020 Festival T-Shirt (printer's proof)
(Adobe home in Albuquerque's historic Old Town
district one block south of the Old Town plaza.
Francisco Cuervo y Valdés founded Old Albuquerque
at an existing farm in 1706.)
11th Annual New Mexico Dulcimer Festival
Online/Stay-at-Home
(October 17, 2020)
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2019 Festival T-Shirt
(Quarai Spanish mission ruins near Punta De Agua,
NM. Completed 1632, abandoned only 46 years later due to drought, famine and Apache raids.)
10th Annual New Mexico Dulcimer Festival
(October 18-19, 2019)
- Instructors:
Dave Haas (mountain dulcimer),
Ken & Brad Kolodner (hammered dulcimer, guitar, banjo, jamming 101, learning by ear),
Ilace Mears (hammered dulcimer),
Mark Nelson (mountain dulcimer),
Tina Gugeler (hammered dulcimer),
Jimmy Abraham (harmonica),
Malacha Hall (mountain dulcimer),
Donese Mayfield (harp),
Glenn Maxwell (bodhrán),
Irma Reeder (mountain dulcimer),
Scott Reeder (hammered dulcimer, bowed psaltery),
Cleve Sharp (penny whistle & whistle ornamentation),
Michele Spiro (autoharp),
Michael VeSeart (ukulele, spoons)
- Spotlight concert: The Secret Life of Drones - Juan Wijngaard & Sharon Berman (hurdy gurdy and accordion)
- 50 workshops offered
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2018 Festival T-Shirt
(Quiet spot at a Bed and Breakfast in Socorro, NM,about 90 miles south of Albuquerque)
9th Annual New Mexico Dulcimer Festival
(October 19-20, 2018)
- Instructors:
Larry and Elaine Conger (mountain dulcimer),
Jess Dickinson (hammered dulcimer),
Butch Ross (mountain dulcimer, ukulele),
Mark Alan Wade (hammered dulcimer),
Tina Gugeler (hammered dulcimer),
Holly and Michael DeLanoy (country line dancing),
David Ellison (mountain dulcimer),
Malacha Hall (mountain dulcimer),
Dan Matthews (singalong),
Irma Reeder (mountain dulcimer, Celtic harp),
Scott Reeder (hammered dulcimer, bowed psaltery),
Cleve Sharp (penny whistle, bodhrán),
Michele Spiro (autoharp),
Michael VeSeart (ukulele, spoons)
- Spotlight concert: Louis Scuderi (Irish bouzouki)
- 49 workshops offered
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2017 Festival T-Shirt(Home in Los Ranchos de Albuquerque in Albuquerque's north valley, incorporated in 1958 to preserve the rural agricultural nature of the village.)
8th Annual New Mexico Dulcimer Festival
(November 3-4, 2017)
- Instructors: Aubrey Atwater (mountain dulcimer, clogging) with Elwood Donnelly (mountain dulcimer, harmonica and percussion),
No Strings Attached®: Wes Chappell (hammered dulcimer, penny whistle) and Randy Marchany (hammered dulcimer),
Joe Collins (mountain dulcimer),
Tina Gugeler (hammered dulcimer),
Malacha Hall (mountain dulcimer),
Donese Mayfield (Celtic harp),
Harlow Pinson (folk music),
Irma Reeder (mountain dulcimer),
Scott Reeder (hammered dulcimer, bowed psaltery),
Wayne Shrubsall (banjo),
Gretchen Van Houten (guitar),
Michael VeSeart (ukulele)
- Contra dance band: Albuquerque band Cheap Shots
- 46 workshops offered
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2016 Festival T-Shirt(Longhorn ranch near San Acacia, NM. About 60 miles south of Albuquerque, it was an important railroad town beginning in the late 1800s, but has been pretty much deserted for decades.)
7th Annual New Mexico Dulcimer Festival
(October 14-15, 2016)
- Instructors: Robert Force (mountain dulcimer, harmonica),
Stephen Humphries (hammered dulcimer),
Madeline MacNeil (mountain dulcimer, hammered dulcimer, singing),
Steve and Ruth Smith (hammered dulcimer, mountain dulcimer, guitar, banjo, ukulele),
Karen Alley (hammered dulcimer),
David Ellison (mountain dulcimer),
Anna Hamrick (Celtic harp),
Glenn Maxwell (bodhrán),
Harlow Pinson (penny whistle),
Irma Reeder (mountain dulcimer),
Scott Reeder (hammered dulcimer, bowed psaltery),
Michael VeSeart (ukulele)
- Spotlight concert: Wayne Shrubsall (history of the banjo)
- 46 workshops offered
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2015 Festival T-Shirt(Home in Los Ranchos de Albuquerque.)
6th Annual New Mexico Dulcimer Festival
(October 16-17, 2015)
- Instructors: Bing Futch (mountain dulcimer, ukulele),
Gary Gallier (mountain dulcimer),
David Moran (hammered dulcimer) with Joe Morgan (hammered dulcimer, guitar),
Rick Thum (hammered dulcimer, bodhrán),
Karen Alley (hammered dulcimer),
David Ellison (mountain dulcimer),
Donese Mayfield (Celtic harp),
Andy Moss (penny whistle),
Irma Reeder (mountain dulcimer),
Scott Reeder (bowed psaltery),
Michael VeSeart (ukulele),
Charles Whitmer (autoharp)
- Spotlight concert: Harry Irizarry (classical guitar)
- 46 workshops offered
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2014 Festival T-Shirt(Abandoned Chevy truck 40 miles northwest of Albuquerque near Madrid, NM)
5th Annual New Mexico Dulcimer Festival
(October 17-18, 2014)
- Instructors: Karen Ashbrook (hammered dulcimer, penny whistle, paliative music) with Paul Oorts (mountain dulcimer, guitar, mandolin, Easy English for Mixed Instruments),
Linda Brockinton (mountain dulcimer),
Karen Mueller (mountain dulcimer, autoharp),
Sam Rizzetta (hammered dulcimer, mountain dulcimer),
Karen Alley (hammered dulcimer),
Dain Forsythe (bodhrán),
Donese Mayfield (Celtic harp),
Irma Reeder (mountain dulcimer),
Scott Reeder (bowed psaltery),
Michael VeSeart (ukulele)
- Spotlight concerts: Donese Mayfield (Celtic harp) and Michael VeSeart (ukulele)
- 40 workshops offered
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2013 Festival T-Shirt(Adobe home in Albuquerque's picturesque North Valley)
4th Annual New Mexico Dulcimer Festival
(October 18-19, 2013)
- Instructors: Lois Hornbostel (mountain dulcimer),
Brenda Hunter with Banshee in the Kitchen (hammered dulcimer, singing),
Dan Landrum (hammered dulcimer),
Aaron O'Rourke (mountain dulcimer),
Ehukai Teves (mountain dulcimer, ukulele),
Katharine Edmonson (Banshee in the Kitchen; Irish guitar),
Jill Egland (Banshee in the Kitchen; bodhrán, tin whistle, Jewish folk melodies),
Tina Gugeler (hammered dulcimer),
Katie Geringer (Aaron O'Rourke duo; mountain dulcimer, Irish Fiddle),
Donese Mayfield (Celtic harp),
Irma Reeder (mountain dulcimer),
Scott Reeder (bowed psaltery),
Michael VeSeart (ukulele)
- 39 workshops offered
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2012 Festival T-Shirt
3rd Annual New Mexico Dulcimer Festival
(October 19-20, 2012)
- Instructors: Janita Baker (mountain dulcimer), Steve Eulberg (mountain and hammered dulcimers, mandolin), Neal Hellman (mountain dulcimer), Ken Kolodner (hammered dulcimer, fiddle), Dain Forsythe (Bodhrán), Tina Gugeler (hammered dulcimer), Irma Reeder (mountain dulcimer, Celtic harp), Scott Reeder (bowed psaltery, guitar), Peggy Spofford (mountain dulcimer), Gretchen Van Houten (fiddle), Michael VeSeart (ukulele)
- 34 workshops offered
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2011 Festival T-Shirt
2nd Annual New Mexico Dulcimer Festival
(October 14-15, 2011)
- Instructors: Larry Conger (mountain dulcimer), Tina Gugeler (hammered dulcimer), Stephen Seifert (mountain dulcimer), Jonathan Dowell (mountain dulcimer), Laurie Phillips (mandolin), Irma Reeder (mountain dulcimer, Celtic harp), Scott Reeder (hammered dulcimer, bowed psaltery, guitar), Peggy Spofford (mountain dulcimer), Michael VeSeart (ukulele)
- 30 workshops offered
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2010 Festival T-Shirt
1st Annual New Mexico Dulcimer Festival
(September 24-25, 2010)
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