WORKSHOP REGISTRATION
Evart Fun Fest Academy 3-Day Intensive
Workshops - July 14, 15, 16, 2025
Mountain Dulcimer - Advanced Beginner $145
9:00am-12:00pm
Improve your strum and fingering to play smoother and faster.
Learn to play slow tunes plucking the strings on-at-a-time (arpeggios)
Learn backup chords in several positions and how to accompany others.
Discover ways to participate in jam sessions.
Learn how to play harmonics and add them to your tunes.
DAD Tuning. Bring a capo and a smile!
Mountain Dulcimer - Intermediate $145 1:00-4:00plm
Learn to play faster, cleaner, and smoother.
Play slow songs with increased clarity and expression.
Become proficient with slides, hammer-ons, pull-offs, and harmonics.
Learn chord names and shapes all over the fretboard and backup chords to accompany others.
Learn how to participate in jam sessions with mountain dulcimers and other instruments.
Discover how to use a capo to play in different keys.
Dave Haas is a popular mountain dulcimer teacher, performer and arranger from Charleston, WV. He travels frequently to provide concerts and worshops for dulcimer clubs and music festivals. His teaching methods are widely considered to be incredibly helpful and instructional for musicians of all levels. Dave has taught and performed in most of the United States and Canada, and the United Kingdom.
Dave is proud to be an Endorsing Artist for Folkcraft Instruments.
Contact him today for more information about merchandise and events!
David Schnaufer in Concert DVD
All proceeds to go Dulcimers for David Project.
$25.00
(+$2.99 shipping)
RECENT / UPCOMING EVENTS
Buckeye Dulcimer Festival
April 23-27, 2025
Recreation Unlimited
Ashley, Ohio
https://www.buckeyedulcimerfestival.com/
Vandalia Gathering
May 23-25, 2025
Capitol Complex, Charleston, WV
https://wvculture.org/vandalia-gathering-2/
Quarantunes Dulcimer Festival (Summer)
June 5-8, 2025
On-Line Zoom Festival
https://www.virtualdulcimerfest.com/
Kentucky Music Week
June 22-27, 2025
Location TBA
Bardstown, KY
Nancy Barker
https://www.kentuckymusicweek.com/
ODPC FunFest - 3 Day Pre-Fest Workshop
July 14-16, 2025
Morning - Advanced Beginners
Afternoon - Intermediate
Osceola Country Fairgrounds, Evart, MI
ODPC FunFest
July 17-19, 2025
Osceola Country Fairgrounds, Evart, MI
Appalachian Stringband Festival (Pre-Festival)
July 25-29, 2025
Camp Washington Carver, Clifftop, WV
https://wvculture.org/explore/camp-washington-carver/string-band-music-festival/
Gateway Duclimer Festival
July 31-August 3, 2025
Four Points by Sheraton / Fountain Conference
Fairview Heights, IL
http://www.gatewaydulcimer.org/linked/festival.htm
FOLKCRAFT Second Saturday Clinic
August 9, 2025
Folkcraft Instruments, Woodburn, IN
Richard Ash
Bluffton Dulcimer Club
August 11, 2025
Bluffton, OH
J.P. Fraley Festival of Traditional Music
September 3-7, 2025
Carter Caves State Park, KY
Barb Kuhns
Quarantunes Dulcimer Festival (Fall)
June 2-5, 2025
On-Line Zoom Festival
https://www.virtualdulcimerfest.com/
Black Mountain Dulcimer Festival
October 12-16, 2025
YMCA Blue Ridge Assembly
Black Mountain, NC
Chuck Moseley
https://www.blackmountainmusicfest.com/
North Georgia Foothills Dulcimer Festival
November 20-22, 2025
On-Line ZOOM Festival
Laurell Wilson
FOOTMAD Old Time Winter Breakdown
February 7, 2026 dulcimer workshop / jams
Capital Complex, Building 9
Charleston, WV
https://www.footmad.org/oldtime-breakdown-weekend
Central Florida Dulcimer Festival
February 12-15, 2026
Mt. Dora, FL
Elaine Waltrop
https://centralfloridadulcimerfestival.com/
Quarantunes Dulcimer Festival (Winter)
TBA
On-Line Zoom Festival
https://www.virtualdulcimerfest.com/
Gardner Music Festival
February 28, 2026
South Middle School, Morgantown, WV
OHIO VALLEY GATHERING
TBD
Family Worship Center
Carrollton, KY
http://www.ohiovalleygathering.com/
Gebhard Woods Dulcimer Festival
June 12-14, 2026
Goold Park
Morris, IL
Peggy Peryam
https://www.gebharddulcimer.org/
New Harmony Dulcimer Festival
October 1-4, 2026
New Harmony, IN
Rick Huffman
www.dulcimerchautauquaonthewabash.com
