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Steve Eulberg's Schedule SPECIAL EVENTS

*****Coming Up February 8, 2004*****

(2nd)First Annual Colorado Dulcimer Festival
Sunday, February 8, 2004
Foothills Unitarian Church

Costs: 
Both Workshops: $40
Concert: $15
SAVE! Workshop & Concert: $50

There is limited seating and the Concert tickets are available first to those who register for workshops.  Registration must be received by Jan 18.

Concert 7:00 pm

John McCutcheon

with Steve Eulberg Opening Act

There is limited seating and the Concert tickets are available first to those who register for workshops.  Registration must be received by Jan 18.

Costs: 
Both Workshops: $40
Concert: $15
SAVE! Workshop & Concert: $50

To register call Stacey Anderson at (970) 221-4925 or stacey@andersonfc.com.  You may prepay with check or credit card.

Map of 1815 Yorktown Ave
Fort Collins, CO 80526-1658

      Tina Gugeler first heard a hammered dulcimer in 1986 while living in Ketchikan, Alaska. It quickly became her passion and soon it seemed everyone on the island had heard Tina and her band, BearFoot. She played on the docks for cruise ship tourists, for weddings and dances, and at the Alaska Folk Festival in Juneau.

      Since moving to the Denver area in 1990, Tina has become a full time musician; performing solo and in small combos with fiddle, guitar or piano, and in several local contra dance bands. Along with her busy performance schedule, she teaches students on the dulcimer and bodhran.

      Tina has published a book of her arrangements, “Arrangements for the Hammered Dulcimer”

She has taught at several festivals including Irish week at Augusta in Elkins, WV, the California Traditional Music Society Annual Summer Solstice Festival, Winterfest in Irving, TX, the Sawdust Festival in Bennington, OK, and was a jam session leader and teacher at the Southwest Dulcimer Festival in Dewey, AZ.

Over the years, Tina has won many local and regional competitions and in the year 2000 she won the U.S. National Hammered Dulcimer Championship.

      She appears on recordings by Denver's High Strung and the dance band Contrafusion.

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      Mountain dulcimer wizard and vocalist Willie Jaeger takes what is often thought of as a "simple" folk instrument and discovers its complexity. His unique style of playing, and his popularity as a teacher at the renowned Swallow Hill School of Music, inspired Westword , Denver's alternative weekly, to vote him Denver's "Best Local Folkie." He has also been a finalist in the national mountain dulcimer championship at Winfield, Kansas. An engaging singer, he also plays hammered dulcimer and guitar, and composes instrumentals and the occasional song.

      Willie Jaeger says, “I like lots of harmony, well-crafted lyrics, and bad puns well told. I played guitar for some years before coming across a mountain dulcimer, was charmed by its voice, and never looked back (probably just a stiff neck....). I don't remember why I started playing hammered dulcimer but it sometimes drives me a little nuts, especially after getting bifocals. I also really enjoy teaching everything I know (we're talking dulcimers here), with great enthusiasm for the instruments and my students, who, if they stick with it long enough, eventually become my friends.

      The truth is I wouldn't have picked up an instrument at all but for the fact that I really like to sing. It seems to be something I have always done, instinctively, for myself, for the sheer joy of it. Somewhere along the line I realized that people were listening, and that it mattered to me that they were listening, and that we all were enjoying the exchange, making it exciting, communal. So while I still sing for myself, I am very aware that I am communicating with others.

      I think the voice is the most personal of instruments, perhaps because we all have one and it is so emotionally pliable. I can't imagine not singing. It is a very special privilege to share this kind of intimacy. It has made all the difference.”

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DULCIMER DAY WORKSHOPS & CONCERT November 22, 2003
with special guests

Ken Willson and Kim McKee (Willson and McKee Press Release)

CONCERTTouring musicians whose homebase in Montana, Ken and Kim will join Steve Eulberg for an evening of exciting and heartwarming acoustic music at Everyday Joe's Coffeehouse in Fort Collins. (144 S. Mason Street). $10 Cover

Kim is the 2002 National Mountain Dulcimer Champion and the duo just took both 1st and 2nd prizes in the internationally judged Milwaukee Irish Festival Songwriting Contest. Steve won 3rd in the 2002 National Mountain Dulcimer Contest and was a final (top 5) in this year's National Hammered Dulcimer Contest.

WORKSHOPS All three will offer workshops from 1-3 pm at the Lutheran Campus Ministry, 805 S. Shields in Fort Collins.

Kim will offer a mountain dulcimer session, then a hammered dulcimer session.

Ken will teach Beginning and Intermediate Celtic Guitar (including Drop D tuning)

Steve will teach 2 tunes for the Advent/Christmas Season (including a one from his newest release in the Dulcimer-Friendly Worship Series: 'Twas in the Moon of Wintertime: Christmas in a Mellow Mode. The first session for hammered dulcimer and the second session for mountain dulcimer.

Costs: $40 for both Workshops

             $10 for the Concert

OR      $45 for both Workshops and the Concert

Call to reserve your spot: (970)472-1352 or email (steve@owlmntnmusic.com)

Click here for printable CONCERT poster (pdf format) that you can share with your friends

Click here for printable WORKSHOP poster (pdf format)

Map to Workshop

Map to Concert

Coming Up February 8--Colorado Dulcimer Festival with John McCutcheon Concert

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