Dulcimer with Carol Walker @ Willow Hall (2022/23 Recital Series)

330 Speedwell Avenue,Morristown NJ 07960

20 November, 2022

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About this event Join us at historic Willow Hall for the first concert in our 2021-2022 Friends of Willow Hall Recital Series! Start off with a light reception before the concert and enjoy an intimate recital in our 1848 historic home. Doors open at 2:15, concert starts promptly at 3:00. Enjoy an inspiring and uplifting interactive recital with Carol Walker, who will share her unique collection of Appalachian mountain dulcimers as she performs Celtic, old-time, classical, and Americana folk favorites. And, as usual, a Carol Walker show always has few surprises along the way! Carol Walker’s formal training includes a degree in Music Education and for 32 years of work as a high school choral teacher in northern NJ, receiving the NJ Governor’s Teacher of the Year Award, and retiring in 2008. Carol soon found ways to combine her love of teaching with her new direction in folk music, and has been a popular workshop leader at dulcimer festivals across the United States. She has competed on three occasions at the famous Winfield (KS) Mountain Dulcimer Championship, where each time she placed in the Top Five Finalists. Carol has traveled twice to the Isle of Man where she has done extensive research into traditional Manx music, producing two books of arrangements for mountain dulcimer (Tailless Tunes and Tailless Tunes 2) and a CD (Alas! The Horse is Gone), all exclusively devoted to this delightful Celtic-flavored music. Carol has also written three other instructional dulcimer books, DNA* Dulcimer Ditties. In 2015, Carol released her first instructional DVD (Exploring the Beauty of the Appalachian Dulcimer), produced by Happy Traum of Homespun Tapes in Woodstock, NY. A book of classical melodies appeared in 2017: Classical Dulcimer - Cwassical Favowites awwanged by Cawol Walker. A book of favorite hymns, was released in 2019. Its title, Church in the Wildwood, was inspired by a visit to the Little Brown Church in Iowa. A book of arrangements for dulcimer ensembles, Many Hands, Many Dulcimers, was released in 2021, and is in wide use around the country by ensembles of all sizes, including her own New York Dulcimer Ensemble, founded in early 2022. In August 2022, Carol released a new book and CD featuring the haunting melodies from a remote, deserted island off the coast of Scotland -- Melodies of St. Kilda. This music was almost lost forever, but thanks to the memory of an elderly gentleman, Trevor Morrison, in an Edinburgh care home, along with an amazing chain of coincidences, the music has found its way from Trevor's piano to Carol's dulcimer. Several of the pieces from this new album will be included in the concert. For more information, please visit Carol's website: www.MusicLadyCarol.com FAQs What are my transportation/parking options for getting to and from the event? Willow Hall does have limited parking available on site at 330 Speedwell Avenue. More parking is available at the Columbian Club/Red Oaks School adjacent to Willow Hall and accessible off Ames Place. What can I bring into the event? Willow Hall is a historic structure. Although we do not have period furnishings, we ask that you do not bring your own food or drink to our events. The light reception before the recital will include wine/beer/soft drinks and light snacks. *Please contact us if you have any food allergies at [email protected]* Will there be tickets available at the door? Should there be tickets available at the end of ticket sales, we will be selling those at the door starting 30 minutes before the recital. Unfortunately we are limited with space and can only offer 30 tickets for the entire event. We cannot promise that tickets will be available at the door. We can only accept cash for tickets sold at the door. What's the refund policy? Friends of Willow Hall and the Passaic River Coalition is a non-profit, volunteer run organization and we apologize but we cannot offer refunds on tickets purchased through Eventbrite. If you cannot attend the event and would like to convert your ticket into a tax-deductible donation (for the full ticket price, not including the Eventbrite fee) please contact us at [email protected]. Do I have to bring my printed ticket to the event? We will have a list of ticketholders prior to the event but we do ask that you bring your printed ticket to make processing as easy as possible. How can I contact the organizer with any questions? You can contact us through email at [email protected]. Can I update my registration information? Please email us at [email protected] with any changes to registration.