Suwannee Dulicmer Retreat
Stephen Foster Folk Culture Center State Park, 11016 Lillian Saunders Drive
White Springs, FL 32096
Phone: 386-397-4478
Suwannee Dulicmer Retreat
: Stephen Foster Folk Culture Center State Park will host the Suwannee Dulcimer Retreat on November 13 and 14. This event invites participants to a weekend of fun and fellowship along with workshops, jam sessions and evening concerts.
The Suwannee Dulcimer Retreat offers in-depth instruction and techniques on the mountain dulcimer, hammered dulcimer and autoharp musical instruments. Traditional music is celebrated with workshops offered for beginning, intermediate and advanced students, taught by nationally recognized instructors.
This year’s mountain dulcimer instructors include performer and luthier Gary Gallier Joining Gallier are Florida’s own mountain dulcimer instructors Bing Futch, Mary Z. Cox, Susan Boyer Haley, Aaron O’Rourke and retreat director David Beede.
The Suwannee Dulcimer Retreat also welcomes performing national performing artist Christie Burns and Florida’s own Ray Belanger for instruction on the hammered dulcimer. The autoharp instructors are performer Ivan Stiles and Tampa’s own Cheryl Belanger.
Concerts featuring these masterful instructors are scheduled for Friday and Saturday evenings in the park auditorium at 7:00 p.m. Tickets for public admission are $10.00. Admission to the two-day event is $85.00, which includes all workshops, jam sessions, concerts and discussion groups. Registration is now open. After October 30, there is a $15.00 late registration fee.
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