Our Purposes
The Corydon Dulcimer Society is dedicated to preserving, promoting, researching, and educating the public about our American traditional music heritage.
Our Services
~ Performance of traditional music in informal gigs or formal concerts, with a small or large group of musicians, with playlists chosen to meet your interests for content and programs ranging from 45 minutes to 2 hours in length, with or without support from our professional sound system.
~ Our performances showcase a wide variety of traditional acoustic instruments including the appalachian mountain dulcimer, hammered dulcimer, autoharp, guitar, mandolin, folk harp, fiddle, double bass, banjo, banjomer, dulcibro, spoons, pennywhistle, recorder, harmonica, jew's harp, psaltery and more!
~ Weekend Music Retreats and Saturday Festivals are sponsored throughout the year. Each one features instructional classes by instrument, open jamming, open stage and evening concerts with the Corydon Dulcimer Society and its friends. . .all offer great opportunities to learn new music and savor the old, develop new skills and enjoy family fellowship, make new friends and keep the old. . .one is silver and the other truly gold!
~ CDs and/or Tapes featuring the "sweet sounds" of the mountain dulcimer are at the heart of our musical program. We presently offer 3 CDs including the traditional music offerings on Corydon Dulcimer Society at Pepin-Stepp and Mamie's Dream and traditional gospel on Glory, Glory.
~ Our Programs can be tailor-made for your group, for schools, weddings, conventions, church events, nursing homes, senior complexes, historic events, rallies, picnics, fairs, festivals, business events and other notable places including the Sorghum Festival, Maple Syrup Festival, WBRO Radio, The Belle of Louisville, The Galt House, Harvest Homecoming, Frazier Museum, The Culbertson Mansion, Vincennes University, Friday Night on the Corydon Square and Light-Up-Corydon.
Our Fees
We are a not-for-profit organization of over 50 acoustic musicians of all ages and levels of expertise, coming from all over southern Indiana. We are bonded together by a deep love for traditional music, a love and joy for performing it and the desire to share our music as freely and as widely as our resources will allow. Though we do not charge a set fee for our events and services, your financial support in the form of donations is invited, much appreciated and is even encouraged whenever possible, to help us meet our expenses and to further our founding purposes and for offering enjoyment of our musical heritage to more people.
