Welcome

Barbara Gershman

HAMMERED DULCIMER
& ACCORDION


Solo, Band or Background Music for Your Special Event

 Recording Experience

- plus-

 BEGINNING HAMMERED DULCIMER LESSONS

 

CONTACT INFO

Barbara Gershman

(714) 488-3166 or (714)963-4665

bgershman@socal.rr.com

www.DulcimerNotes.com


OUR BANDS

 

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 On A Lark Trio
Celtic and More...
Photos
Performances

bgershman@socal.rr.com

www.DulcimerNotes.com

 

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Better Than One

Hammered Dulcimer Duo

Photos 
Performances
CD-Winter Bells 
www.pattiamelotte.com

info@pattiamelotte.com

-Patti Amelotte

 

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 Legacy

Multi-instrument Duo, Trio or
Ensemble

Photos 
CD-Peacock’s Feathers 
Performances
Legacy Sampler Video at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PH59rk-kMxo
www.musicbypatty.com

mccollomp@sbcglobal.net

-Patty McCollom

 

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 www.scdh.org


Southern California
Dulcimer Heritage
Non-profit support group for all things DULCIMER

Sponsor of Practice & Jam groups &

Golden Strings Youth Fretted Dulcimer Group

 

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SOLO Hammered Dulcimer

L.A. Arboretum
Annual Members Meeting
Arcadia



South Coast Plaza, Costa Mesa

Tall Ships Festival
Dana Point
Ocean Institute

AAUW
Authors Luncheon
Old Ranch Country Club
Seal Beach

L.A. Arboretum
Annual Members Meeting
Arcadia

AAUW
Holiday Program
Meadowlark Country Club
Huntington Beach


More of Barbara’s Photos



Music is more fun when shared.
If you’re looking for music for a special event,
please keep us in mind.

Solos
Duos
Trios
Quartet
Ensembles

Barbara’s SOLO Performances Include:

•AAUW (American Association of University Women) Westminster-Fountain Valley-Huntington Beach Branch,
Holiday Program - Huntington Beach

•Authors Luncheon and Fund Raiser - Annual - Seal Beach

•Anaheim Meadows, Anaheim

•Artistic License Boutique Fair - Annual - Costa Mesa


•Avalon at Newport East, Newport Beach


•Butterfly Tea - ‘Tea for 2 or 50’, Orange

•Calif. Assn. Family & Consumer Sciences, Orange District, Home & Community


•Crystal Cove Care Center, Newport Beach


•Folk Art Council 12th Night Celebration (support group for Craft & Folk Art Museum), Los Angeles


•Huntington Terrace, Huntington Beach


•Jeri Westerson Medieval Noir Mystery Writer Book Launch -
Vroman’s Bookstore, Pasadena

•Kona Kai High Tea, Santa Ana


•Laguna Woods Village Chorale Holiday Concert , Laguna Hills

•Los Angeles Arboretum - Annual - Members Meeting, Arcadia

•Moon Gate Salon, Irvine


•Memorial Services


•Mission Viejo Library
- Coloring Project

•Mission Viejo Friends of the Arts
- Photography Exhibit Reception

•Newport Beach Memory Care

•Orange Coast College Dietetic Technician Professional Development Day, Costa Mesa


•Orange County Psychological Association, Laguna Beach


•P.E.O. -  Corona del Mar

•P.E.O. - Christmas Tea, Orange

•Private Parties and Celebrations


•Renaissance Faire - Annual - Bert Lynn Middle School, Torrance


•Rowntree Gardens (Quaker Gardens Senior Community), Garden Grove

•Saddleback College Women’s Conferences, Mission Viejo

•Sebrook Residence, La Quinta

•Shakespeare in the Huntington Beach Park, Huntington Beach

•South Coast Plaza, Costa Mesa


•South Orange County Alumnae Panhellenic, Irvine
•Sunrise Care, Huntington Beach

•Tall Ships Festival, Ocean Institute Courtyard, Dana Point

•Zonta Club Holiday Time, Orange






 


Hammered Dulcimer ~ Music for the Soul

Tune sample
“Planxty Fanny Poer”
Composed by Turlough O'Carolan
Performed by ON A LARK
 

 


CALENDAR
2023

BING FUTCH - MOUNTAIN DULCIMER
WORKSHOP DAY & CONCERT - CARLSBAD, CA 5/20
IN PERSON- PART of CROSS-COUNTRY TOUR
Workshop Reg. Due 4/28
www.scdh.org

SCDH COMMUNITY JAM AT
SHIPLEY NATURE CENTER
Huntington Beach
MAY 27, 10am-12N TBD
AUGUST 26, 5-7pm TBD
All acoustic instruments and listeners welcome!


SCDH 29th ANNUAL DULCIMER CELEBRATION
A MONTH OF MUSIC
OCTOBER 2023
A mix of In-Person, On-Line, Hybrid (Pacific Time)
Workshops, Jams, Concerts
www.scdh.org 
Check for Updates, Registration & more activities

HAMMERED DULCIMER
Karen Harvey    10/7 Zoom
Patti Amelotte & Brenda Hunter    10/14 Hybrid
Karen Ashbrook    10/28 Zoom


MOUNTAIN DULCIMER DAY
Performers/Teachers TBD sharing  10/21 Zoom

OTHER INSTRUMENTS
Patty McCollom - Bodhran, Tinwhistle    10/15 Zoom
Jim Romano - Ukulele Group   In-person TBD


CONCERTS
FLUTTER BY MUSIC (Patti Amelotte & Brenda Hunter) 10/15 Hybrid
KAREN ASHBROOK & PAUL OORTS 10/28 Zoom


JAMS
CLAREMONT
Mountain Dulcimer & All Acoustic Instruments - 4/29 & 10/7
POMONA
Hammered Dulcimer 10/14 Hybrid
TLT - FULLERTON
All Acoustic Instruments 10/14
DOWNEY Folk Music Jam
All Acoustic Instruments, 4th Tues.? TBD
ROLLING HILLS
Hammered Dulcimer 10/29


Regional Groups Updates
Contact Leaders for More Info

WEST SIDE HAMMERED DULCIMERS
Barbara Gershman, bgershman@socal.rr.com
Sharing tunes & playing for fun!
Second Tuesdays, 7-9 pm – Zoom Host Kay Deeney

FOUNTAIN VALLEY SENIOR SINGERS & STRUMMERS & HOOT
Donna Ewing fvdewing@gmail.com  Zoom host /
Asst. Barbara Gershman bgershman@socal.rr.com
Alternating Zoom and In-person at Fountain Valley Senior Center
Wednesdays, 1:00-3:15pm

OC HAMMERED DULCIMERS
Barbara Gershman - bgershman@socal.rr.com
Sharing tunes & playing for fun!
Zoom monthly 5:30-7pm, week night varies

TLT MONTHLY OPEN JAM
Patty McCollom mccollomp@sbcglobal.net
All instruments, traditional tunes
Sponsored by The Living Tradition
In-person Second Saturdays, 2-5pm
Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Fullerton
 
ZOOM-ERED HAMMERED DULCIMER SOIREE
Patti Amelotte patti@pattiamelotte.com
One Sunday per Month 4pm - 6pm
Donations gratefully accepted by check, PayPal or Venmo.
390 E. Kingsley Ave., Pomona, CA 91767



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Karen Ashbrook’s Mystery of Modes Workshop Group, San Clemente, Feb. 2017