Chattanooga Dulcimer Festival

Over the Christmas break, in the middle of a full schedule of gigs and magazine production, we lost our venue for the Chattanooga Dulcimer Festival. It was bad news, but we really didn't have enough time to even worry about it. The new year would present a new challenge, but the outcome was worth the hassle.

The City of Chattanooga has offered us financial support and one of the best venues in town! Click here and scroll down the page until you see Sailors and Soldiers Memorial Auditorium. Special thanks go to Chattanooga Education, Arts and Cultural Affairs Director Missy Crutchfield. City officials have high hopes for watching the Chattanooga Dulcimer Festival grow, and hope to eventually host the World Cimbalom Congress.

We'll announce the Chattanooga Dulcimer Festival lineup when our web site goes live in February. City sponsorship not only means a great venue, it means we'll be able to make the workshops more affordable and the concerts even better! We are also excited to be co-presenting this festival with Bruce Ford of EverythingDulcimer.com. It is going to be a big event and we hope you'll be there too!

We hope the price, timing (June 20-21), and event focus which is more technique than tunes, will make it a stopping point for those on their way to either Kentucky Music Week or, The 9th Annual WCU Mountain Dulcimer Week, both of which start the 22nd. They're both great festivals, and both within an easy afternoon's drive from Chattanooga. Hit the road and have some fun this June! ¶ 7:36 PM