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Heritage Dulcimer Camp 2010 has been cancelled due to low enrollment numbers.

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Since her decade of directing SAMFest in Houston, TX, Peggy has taught and performed at many festivals and venues all across the US and the Big Pond. With a background in Music Education and Church Music she is a composer, arranger and a conductor of vocal and instrumental performing groups and her music has been published by BriLee Music, Mel Bay Publishers and Afghan Press.

The dulcimer has been an important part of Peggy’s music since the 70s, and in her group workshops and private teaching, Peggy is keenly aware of individual learning styles as students grow toward musical maturity. She is on the cutting edge of the Cyber Generation, having been one of the first to incorporate a multi-media program in her CD, Look Back With Love and recently to have developed “E-Lessons” for students to learn electronically.

www.peggycarter.com

Advanced Hammered Dulcimer

Linda Thomas' musical career began at age seven when she started playing piano. She eventually earned a degree in music education at Southwest Missouri State University and has taught music at the elementary school level for 35 years. Linda became intrigued by the hammered dulcimer after hearing it played in live performance at the Walnut Valley Festival in the 1980's. "My formal training consisted of maybe five lessons to learn the tuning and set-up of the dulcimer; however, I consider myself pretty much a self-taught player." She quickly mastered the instrument and has become well known both in the US and in Europe as a performer, recording artist and instructor.

www.lindadan.com

Intermediate Mountain Dulcimer

For years, Susan Trump has been winning fans with her singing, her outstanding instrumental skill on the mountain dulcimer, guitar and banjo, and her clear, relaxed teaching style.

She is a much sought-after instructor and performer whose work has included The Old Songs Festival, NY; Glen Rose and SAM Fest, TX; Appalachian State University, Boone, NC; Heartlant/Heritage Dulcimer Camlp, MO; The Buckeye Festival, OH; The Ozark Folk Center, AR; Kentucky Music Week and the Yellowbanks Festivals, KY: and other festivals and dulcimer events nationwide. She has won awards in both banjo and mountain dulcimer competitions.

Susan has released four best-selling solo CDs and several dulcimer books. She is the producer of Volumes One and Two of the Masters of the Mountain Dulcimer and Masters of the Mountain Dulcimer Play Music For Christmas.

www.susantrump.com

Linda Brockinton started playing flute at age eleven and has played flute and piccolo previously with the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra. As a music major in college, she won First Chair in several regional orchestras. Linda began playing mountain began playing the dulcimer in 1988. She started teaching dulcimer lessons in 1990. She took first place at Winfield in 2001.

Linda also plays harp, guitar, hammered dulcimer, and bodhran with the group. Linda continues to teach private dulcimer and flute lessons as well as teaching at numerous venues across the country.

www.lindabrockinton.com