Favourite Dulcimer Players (9)

[Ptarmigan]

1 - Christie Burns and Butch Ross

2 - Don Pedi

3 - Mark Gilston

4 - Aaron O'Rourke

5 - Bing Futch

6 - Butch Ross

7 - Gary Sager

8 - Jean Ritchie

9 - Bonnie Russell & The Russell Family

[deleuran]

I am new in this dulcimer business, as you well know. I guess mountain dulcimer is allowed in this place too?
I don't know many yet, but I can name a few: www.donpedi.com/
And I have a couple of myspace friends, Mark Gilston, who I have corresponded a great deal with: markgilston.com/
His myspace site is: www.myspace.com/markgilston1
And the other is Aaron O'Rourke from Florida: www.aaronorourke.com/Home.html
His myspace site is: www.myspace.com/aaronorourkedulcimer
He's quite incredrible. (How's my spelling?) ;D

[Ptarmigan]

Thanks Jesper, but I think you were drooling, or dribling, at the thought of all those great Dulcimer players.

Here are a couple of great Dulcimer players you need to check out.
I've just posted these YouTubes over on the Mt. Dulcimer thread.

9 - Bing Futch and Butch Ross - "Run On"

10 - Bing Futch and Butch Ross - "Juke Joint Hen."

11 - Butch Ross - Vincent Black Lightning

12 - Butch Ross & Gary Sager plus Rich Carty playing Cherokee Shuffle

[john]

and we still have Jean Ritchie

[deleuran]

Yes, Jean Ritchie "The Mother of Folk" is a must on the list. I have just wrote about her in the thread Old time singers and songs Take a look at that. She's a heck of a singer too, and a living legend.
Another must on this list is Bonnie Russel. I recently bought an almost 40 years old recording with the the 13 year old Bonnie and her family. I wrote about her under Oldtime CD's (Why doesn't she appear on the list, Dick )
It is somewhere close to be the best recording I've ever heard with the appalachian dulcimer. Traditional style. Dick! Promise me to put her on the list here too!!
I quote myself from the CD thread:

deleuran said:

Chirps Smith who I know from the fiddlehangout, recommended me to buy this CD:
"Mountain Dulcimer Galax Style" with Bonnie Russel and her family.
It's recorded around 1970 and Bonnie was only 13 years old, but man she can play the dulcimer. Her brother who was 15 plays flat top guitar, and their father plays three finger picking on a bariton ukulele. This is genuine mountain music. The mother in the family came from a family who had played and build dulcimers for several generations.
It's music made in heaven, or near by. (I'm not religious, but I guess you know what I mean)
It can be bought at Country Records:
www.countysales.com/php-bin/ecomm4/products.php?category_id=&product_id=2632&prev_id=&next_id=
For those of you who live in Europe, it might be faster and easier to buy it at amazon.co.uk
That's what I did. I got the CD yesterday, and I have played it over and over since. I have slept in between though.