Where to Find Us:

Lois Hornbostel

135 Pine Meadows Road

Bryson City, NC 28713

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What's New:

LOIS'S SIX MEL BAY MOUNTAIN DULCIMER BOOKS ALL AVAILABLE! Visit MUSIC STORE page for details.

BRING MOUNTAIN DULCIMER PLAYING & BUILDING TO YOUR CHILDREN'S SCHOOLS! Learn how by clicking above on our new ARTS-IN-EDUCATION page!

RECENT DULCIMER PLAYING CHAMPIONSHIPS! We've been attending Appalachian fiddle conventions, getting into the roots of the area's music, showing folks what the mountain dulcimer can do, and picking up some honors along the way...

LOIS’S DULCIMER CHAMPIONSHIPS:

After winning the Galax (VA) & Fiddlers Grove fiddle convention Dulcimer Championships in 1987, Lois did not compete much more until 2014 when she and Ehukai started visiting fiddle conventions. She's honored to have been awarded:

’14 Mt. Airy, NC Dulcimer Champion

’14 Grayson County, VA Dulcimer Champion

’14 Alleghany County, NC Dulcimer Champion

’16 Alleghany County, NC Dulcimer Champion

’16 Tazewell, VA Dulcimer Champion

'16 Laurel Bloomery, TN Dulcimer Champion

'17 Grayson County, VA Dulcimer Champion

'17 Laurel Bloomery, TN Dulcimer Champion

'18 Grayson County, VA Dulcimer Champion

'18 Tazewell, VA Dulcimer Champion

'18 Alleghany County, NC Dulcimer Champion

EHUKAI’S DULCIMER

(& OTHER) CHAMPIONSHIPS:

'12 Fiddlers Grove, NC Dulcimer Champion

’13 Union Grove, NC Dulcimer Champion

’14 Union Grove, NC Dulcimer Champion

’15 Union Grove, NC Dulcimer Champion

’15 Alleghany County, NC Dulcimer Champion

'15 Ashe County, NC Dulcimer Champion

’16 Ashe County, NC Dulcimer Champion

'17 Tazewell, VA Traditional Singer Champion '17 Alleghany County, NC Dulcimer Champion

'18 Tazewell, VA Folk Song Champion

'18 Tazewell, VA Harmonica Champion

'18 Fries, VA Dulcimer Champion

Lois Hornbostel and Ehukai Teves

What's New ...

WE'RE AVAILABLE FOR "VIRTUAL" CLASSES AND PERFORMANCES! Mark your calendars for our first event:

32nd Annual Fall Festival

Thurs., Nov. 19 thru Sat., Nov. 21, 2020

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Lois and Ehukai will be teaching mountain dulcimer and ukulele classes "virtually" at this festival! It's long been a favorite event of dulcimer players. Respecting social distances, like many other events, it will be "virtual" on the internet this year.

The one-hour classes using the free "Zoom" program are very popular, help musical artists earn a living, and are very inexpensive for participants ($11 per workshop!). You can take the classes in the comfort of your own home, need not travel or pay for other lodging to participate. Even if you live in a different part of the world and have internet, you can still take these classes!

Please visit Lois Hornbostel's Facebook page for a list of all the classes she and Ehukai Teves will be teaching, the concert in which they will play, and other details of the festival. Registrations will open September 3 and classes are expected to fill fast.