Lone Star State Dulcimer Society

Winter Festival of Accoustic Music	Lone Star State Dulcimer Festival	Other Concerts, Festivals Links, and Such
	LSSDS Monthly Meeting Location

LSSDS meets on the second Saturday of the month from 1 - 5 PM. The location for all of the meetings is listed at the above link (http:\\www.lssds.org\meeting.htm). Meetings have 2 workshops for hammered dulcimer which run at the same time as 2 workshops for the mountain dulcimer. Usually the first workshop is for beginners and the second workshop is for more advanced players. Beginners can learn a lot in both workshops. (You can understand intellectually things you can't execute physically yet.) We keep business meetings to a minimum and reserve as much time as possible for a play-around and jam session. We do not hold our "regular " meetings in December, February or May.

A newsletter comes out about one week before the upcoming meeting. Deadline for inclusion in the newsletter is two weeks before the next meeting.

Your $10/year dues pays for your receiving the newsletter which gives the details of the next meeting and tells you of upcoming LSSDS events and concerts, etc. of interest to our membership. There is no fee for regular meeting workshops. These are some of the best workshops in the nation at any price and they're available here for free.

The LSSDS sponsors two festivals a year. These take the place of monthly meetings in February and May. In February there is the Winter Festival of Accoustic Music, which is coordinated by Linda Thompson. In May, Dana Hamilton runs the Lone Star State Dulcimer Festival at Glen Rose's Oakdale Park.

The reason this group exists is to encourage/teach the playing of these traditional instruments. All kinds of music is encouraged. The majority of the membership sticks pretty much to "traditional" sounds, but those are personal choices and we like to hear "new" things on "old" instruments... or "old" things we haven't heard before.

The meetings are open to all who come. You can find all levels of ability. Those who are a bit more advanced, now, remember quite well when they were first starting. Ask questions and introduce yourself around. Bring your instrument(s) learn/play music with us.

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