June 2013, BDC meeting Announcement

The June Bellingham Dulcimer Club meeting is coming up quickly on Saturday afternoon June 8, 2013 at the Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship at 1207 Elsworth St.  between H and I Streets in the lettered streets section of Bellingham. We will start at 1:30 and end at 3:30. We will again warm up with "Happy Land" and go on from there. If you have a tune to introduce please bring copies of music if you can. We would love to review "Acres of Clams" and "Lynchburg Town" that we were introduced to last month. So if you just want to play or are ready to introduce a tune come on and join the group for the afternoon. We love to have newcomers and young and/or the young at heart strummers!

May 2013 Meeting Report

Thanks to all who attended the meeting this month from both near and far; thanks to our Canadian neighbors. After introducing ourselves and our instruments we began with the tune "Happy Land". We took some time on this since it will become our new warm-up tune for awhile. Youtube has several renditions you can check out. The song circle continued with "Rhythum, Wildwood Flower, Whiskey, Cluck Old Hen, June Apple, Lynchburg Town". A new song was introduced, "Acres of Clams" which we all enjoyed learning.

The club members present and those who emailed input have decided to continue meeting throughout the summer months; June, July, August. We also decided to begin at 1:30 and end by 3:30.

Hope to see you all in June, keep strummin !

May, 2013 BDC Meeting Announcement

Judith Atkins recently posted the following to Bellingham Dulcimer Club current and potential members:

"Greetings to All,

This month's Bellingham Dulcimer Club meeting will take place on Saturday afternoon, May 11, 2013, at the Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship at 1207 Ellsworth between H and I Streets in the Lettered Streets Neighborhood of Bellingham. New and newer players are encouraged to come early at 1:30PM with more experienced players welcome to join us at 2:00PM.

The Song Circle this month will include tunes of your choice, so please come to the meeting prepared to "call a tune" if you would like or just  strum along.

I will also like to introduce myself, I have assumed the role of the club coordinator . . . I am not an experienced player and will rely on the many great musicians we have in the group. I am very happy to assume this role . . . There is also a team of other players that have willingly stepped in to fill the other duties. We will introduce everyone at the May meeting. Looking forward to seeing you all and sharing some music with you on the 11th.

Judith Akins"