OHR Presents: Dulcimer Jamboree 2025!

About this episode

This episode features highlights from the Dulcimer Jamboree, showcasing performances and stories related to dulcimer music.

This week, here comes Dulcimer Jamboree once again! Each year, dulcimer players from all over come to the Ozark Folk Center State Park in Mountain View, Arkansas for a weekend of learning, listening, and loving all things dulcimer. Each evening of the event features concerts by world renowned dulcimer teachers and performers. We’ll enjoy highlights recorded from these live performances featuring both mountain dulcimers and the more ancient hammered dulcimers. Artists performing this year include: Renowned mountain dulcimer players and educators Stephen Seifert, Kara Barnard, and Margaret Wright; hammered dulcimer masters and educators Katie Moritz, Deedee Tibbits, & Rick Thum; and world famous hammered dulcimer Jedi and internet sensation Colin Beasley. Also, a performance from the 2025 Ozark Folk Center Mountain Dulcimer Contest Champion Allison O’Shea from Brown County, Indiana. In this week’s “From the Vault” segment, OHR producer Jeff Glover offers a 1986 archival recording of Ozark originals The Leatherwoods, featuring Jean Jennings & Kay Thomas on mountain dulcimers performing the classic hymn “Amazing Grace,” from the Ozark Folk Center State Park archives. In his segment…

People in this episode

Host: Brooks Blevins

Guests: Stephen Seifert, Kara Barnard, Margaret Wright, Katie Moritz, Deedee Tibbits, Rick Thum, Colin Beasley, Allison O’Shea, Jeff Glover, Jean Jennings, Kay Thomas, Dr Brooks Blevins

Topics covered

• Dulcimer Jamboree
• mountain dulcimer
• hammered dulcimer
• live performances
• Ozark Folk Center

Keywords

• music festival
• Ozark Folk Center State Park
• live music
• archival recording
• murder trial

Mentioned in this episode

Products: mountain dulcimer, hammered dulcimer

Books & works: Dulcimer Jamboree, From the Vault, The Leatherwoods, Amazing Grace, Back in the Hills, Ghost of the Ozarks

Places: Mountain View, Arkansas, Brown County, Indiana, Ozark

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