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Meeting: Saturday August 20, 2005 note the start time is 3:00 PM. Be sure to work on playing happy birthday! Plan to play it at the meeting! Its a pretty safe bet it will get used in there somewhere!
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Hey, friends, this is the time! Get ready for our 25th birthday as a dulcimer club. The Indian Territory Dulcimer Celebration held its first meeting in August, 1980, when Russell Cook came up to Tulsa from Durant to deliver a brand new hammered dulcimer to Susan Compton for her birthday. There were lots of folks there at that first meeting, and I don't remember all of them. But the party included Sam and Susan Compton (now living in Virginia), Steve and Jean Smith (now living in North Carolina), Rosemary Moran with children David and Becky, John and Reba Moran, Bus and Eleanor Swetnam, and more. I think Steve Mayfield was there, and a lady named Ginger, and I can't remember the others. Me? I was off doing something else that night, like going to the stock car races or something! What was I thinking, huh?
Okay, here are some details. Our August meeting will be held in the other end of the church building, in the Family Life Center. Workshops will begin at 3:00, with Evan O'Bannon leading the MD folks, and David Moran working with the HD players. After the workshops, we'll take a dinner break, and then the evening concert will begin at 7:00 PM. Performing on the concert will be Jonathan Schultes (OK champ 2000), Evan O'Bannon (national champ 1996), Mark Tindle (national champ 1986 and 1991), and David Moran (national champ 1982). I know that Evan and David are bringing along some friends to help out, so it should be a great evening of dulcimer music.
Okay, what does all this cost? Nothing, absolutely nothing! It will all be free, and we're getting some publicity out to the local papers, and also to the dulcimer clubs in our region. Everyone is invited, so bring along your neighbors and friends, especially to the concert. Hopefully we'll be able to get some new folks interested in being a part of us in the future, and we'll just go for another 25 years!
See you on the 20th, at Yale Avenue Christian Church, 3616 South Yale in Tulsa. Call me or email me if you have any questions or comments or suggestions about the shindig. See ya there!
Dennis.
From the editor: If you want to mail dennis his email is dulcimerhouse (all one word) "at symbol" yahoo dot com. I hope you can figure it out from that, i did that to block spammers.. sorry for not just revealing the direct text.
What a great month to come to the meeting too! This should really be good! Feel free to post the press release where you work, lets use this to introduce new people to dulcimers.
I have been thinking about ragtimes recently. A few years ago I was passing through St Louis with some time on my hands and decided to stop in and see the Scott Joplin home. Wow, that is something everybody should see even if they are not big into ragtime.
I was amazed to think as I walked down the sidewalk that Scott had walked those same streets and gathered inspiration for such incredible compositions as The Entertainer, Cleopha, and Elite Syncopations among so many others. Scott didnt compose at the piano, he walked around that neighborhood and composed in his head! I wish I knew how he did it! Beethoven did the same thing, perhaps I should give it a try!
Personally I found that one of the few profound places I have ever visited in my life. (Others include the Wright brothers bicycle shop in Dayton Ohio, and the other one that has been moved to Greenfield Village in Dearborn Michigan). Perhaps some day I should book a trip to the black forrest!
In the meanwhile I will be at the meeting and look forward to seeing you there-
Dana