Jim Phillips has a passion for creating beautiful wood projects. He was born to Carl and Beatrice Phillips in Richlands, Virginia, in the heart of Appalachian coal country. His parents moved to the ...

The Blue Ridge Institute and Museum in Ferrum premiered an exhibition in 2011 that provided a sweeping history of the dulcimer across three centuries. That show, “The Virginia Dulcimer: 200 Years of ...

That person Styles tracked down was Joellen Lapidus, the woman who sold Mitchell her first dulcimer — a long, stringed instrument that was once used by Tibetan monks as well as musicians entertaining ...

The strains of “Amazing Grace” filled the air in a rural southern Virginia Beach church one recent cold night as six mountain dulcimer players gathered to play a few traditional favorites. To make ...