We hope you can come join us in a jam at the Humpback Rock Visitor Center on the Blue Ridge Parkway! Club members will be playing from 2 – 4 pm on the 2nd and 4th Sundays of  June, July, August, and September.  If the weather is agreeable, October, too!  It’s always a fun way to spend time with the dulcimer community and to share our music with visitors to the Blue Ridge Parkway!

Bring your own chair – sometimes we play on the porch of the Joe Clark cabin right down the path, and sometimes we play on the platform under the big tree.

To get to Humpback Rocks Visitor Center, simply get on the Blue Ridge Parkway at Afton Mountain, and head south about 5.5 miles.  The area where we play is at the south end of the Visitor Center parking lot.

Note: In the event of inclement weather, PLEASE CHECK THIS WEBSITE or our Facebook page for a notification of cancellation.

Our First Saturday in October Jam will be at Grand Caverns Park in Grottoes Saturday, October 5. This jam is part of our annual fall picnic.We gather at Shelter closest to the entrance to the caverns. A slow jam will begin at 11 am, potluck lunch around noon, and a faster jam after lunch for those who are interested.

Our next First Saturday jam will be November 2,  2019 from 2 – 4 pm in the Shenandoah Room at Maple Terrace in the Bridgewater Retirement Community.    We hope to see you there!

See dates for our Third Saturday jams below!

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Our next Third Saturday gathering will be from 2 – 4 pm on October 19, 2019. The location will be the Augusta County Library in Fishersville, downstairs. Bring a list of songs you would like the group to play, your Dave Haas Jam Book and our Joe Collins hymn collection!

Note: In the event of inclement weather, PLEASE CHECK THIS WEBSITE for a notification of cancellation.

Summer First Saturday Jams MAY be relocated to the Oasis, just for fun, for sharing and for being in an outdoor venue.  This always depends on the availability of the Oasis Shelter in the Bridgewater Retirement Village, as well as weather!  If the location is changed from the Shenandoah Room, members will be notified via email.

October 5, 2019 – Annual Fall Picnic

Plan to join us for our annual club picnic at Grand Caverns Park in Grottoes, and the location of our First Saturday Jam in October! Bring a dish to share for our mid-day picnic; plates, water bottles and plastic ware will be provided.  This year the picnic will be potluck. Please bring a covered dish to share. 

We are planning a slow jam at 11:00 but be sure to stick around after lunch for the up tempo jam session.  I’m sure there will be time for sharing if you or your small group would like to share something you have been working on.  Just let the jam leader know.  This is a great way to kick off our fall season.  See you soon.  In the meantime Happy Dulcimering!

Our upcoming jams are listed here (view here).

Check out some photos of our 2018 Holiday Concert – it looks like everyone had a great time!  

Thanks to Gene Bowlen for  running sound. 

We ended with the Sing-A-Long, doing THREE TUNES; JINGLE BELLS, JOY TO THE WORLD, AND WE WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS, with more than 25 dulcimers playing!

Thanks to friends and family for helping us to celebrate this holiday season with music!

• Plan to arrive between 11 and noon, and set up for our picnic.  A “slow jam” is planned between 11 and noon; we will “boil that cabbage” while food is getting set up!  Consider this an “introduction to jamming” for newbies and a chance to play some slow tunes, for any who might find fast jam tunes daunting! So, plan to bring your dulcimer and chair!  Dinah Ansley will lead this jam; bring your Dave Haas Jam book.  We have only two more jam books left at the special club price.
• Lunch will be at noon – bring a dish to share, BBQ chicken will be provided by the club!  –Bring a friend and family, too!  Paper plates, plastic ware and water will be provided.
• We will continue with a jam after our meal, playing some of our usual jam favorites and a few faster tunes.
• (In the case of inclement weather, please check our Facebook Page or website for updates or cancellation information).

Note: there will be no Jam held at the Fishersville Library on Sept. 15, 2018; as we will be jamming together at Grand Caverns Park in Grottoes, VA on Sept. 22!

Our Joe Collins Dulcimer Workshop

The 6:00 pm Evening Concert by Joe Collins was a delight and enjoyed by a good sized group!  Thanks to all who came, participated and shared!

Joe Collins was winner of the National Mountain Dulcimer Championship in 2007 in Winfield, KS, in addition to numerous other awards! Over the past twenty years, he has had the opportunity to teach and play in festivals from California to the east coast, from Florida to Vermont, and a lot of places in between.   His performances are sprinkled with a lot of humor and some excellent mountain dulcimer playing – sure to bring a smile to audiences of all ages.

We hope you can come join us in a jam at the Humpback Rock Visitor Center on the Blue Ridge Parkway! Club members will be playing from 2 – 4 pm on the 2nd and 4th Sundays of  June, July, August, and September.  If the weather is agreeable, October, too!  It’s always a fun way to spend time with the dulcimer community and to share our music with visitors to the Blue Ridge Parkway!

Bring your own chair – sometimes we play on the porch of the Joe Clark cabin right down the path, and sometimes we play on the platform under the big tree.