Dulcimers at Halsway

Name: Dulcimers at Halsway
Start: 2025-05-19T15:00:00.000000Z
End: 2025-05-23T09:00:00.000000Z
Location: Halsway - National Centre for Folk Arts

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This course is currently sold out

We do sometimes get cancellations – if a waiting list is available, you can still fill in an enquiry form below and tick the ‘Waiting List’ box.

Arrival: Mon 19 May 2025 / 4pm
Departure: Fri 23 May 2025 / 10am

Tags: Karen Ashbrook Val Cortoni Jessica Comeau Judy House

Pricing

Full board Including accommodation, tution and meals
Single in ensuite room	£460
Shared in ensuite room	£420
Single in non-ensuite room	£420
Shared in non-ensuite room	£380
Camping Including tution and meals
Per person	£275
Course only Includes tution and lunch and dinner
Non-resident	£255

We are delighted to welcome back Nonsuch Dulcimer Club to host another packed workshop week offering practical guidance on playing the dulcimer. Featuring superb tutors from the USA and UK. There will also be times to socialise and play informally, plus informal evening concerts from the tutors – and from participants!

You can choose from four courses. Please let us know your choice when booking:

Mountain Dulcimer: Introductory Course
Mountain Dulcimer: Exploring Course
Hammered Dulcimer: Introductory Course
Hammered Dulcimer: Exploring Course

Introductory courses are designed for beginners / improver dulcimer players. Loan instruments will be available subject to demand.

Exploring courses are more in-depth, designed with the intermediate / advanced level player in mind. The Mountain Dulcimer Exploring Course is also open to players of other fretted instruments.

Please Click here for further guidance about playing levels.

Who is it for?

All skill levels will be catered for on this course. There will be two broad strands of workshops for both Mountain and Hammered Dulcimer: one for Beginner/Improvers and one for Intermediate/Advanced players. Please Click here for playing level guidelines. We hope that once again there will be instruments available – both mountain and hammered dulcimers – for beginners to borrow – please request early when you book.

The Team

Karen Ashbrook (USA) (Hammered Dulcimer)

Val Cortoni (France) (Hammered Dulcimer)

Jessica Comeau (USA) (Mountain Dulcimer)

Judy House (USA) (Mountain Dulcimer)

The tutors will be performing in a concert on Tuesday evening. Entry is included for course participants, but external tickets will also available.

Arrival & Departure

Unless otherwise specified, our midweek courses check-in from 4pm on a Monday and check out by 10am on Friday, and our weekend courses check in from 4pm on a Friday and depart on Sunday by 4pm. Dinner on the first night is usually at 6.30pm, and in general, no formal teaching or introductory sessions take place until after this.

Bring a friend

You can book on a course at Halsway and bring a friend who can explore the area while using Halsway as a base for meals and accommodation. Halsway Manor is in the Quantock Hills (England’s first designated National Landscape (formally AONB). We’re just minutes away from the West Somerset Railway (Britain's longest steam railway), a short drive or bus ride from Somerset’s Jurassic coast (ideal for fossil hunting), and surrounded by dramatic scenery and changing landscapes, from the wild hills of Exmoor to the flat expanse of the Somerset Levels.

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