OHR Presents: Dulcimer Jamboree 2025!

This week, here comes Dulcimer Jamboree once again! Each year, dulcimer players from all over come to the Ozark Folk Center State Park in Mountain View, Arkansas for a weekend of learning, listening, and loving all things dulcimer. Each evening of the event features concerts by world renowned dulcimer teachers and performers. We’ll enjoy highlights recorded from these live performances featuring both mountain dulcimers and the more ancient hammered dulcimers.
Artists performing this year include: Renowned mountain dulcimer players and educators Stephen Seifert, Kara Barnard, and Margaret Wright; hammered dulcimer masters and educators Katie Moritz, Deedee Tibbits, & Rick Thum; and world famous hammered dulcimer Jedi and internet sensation Colin Beasley. Also, a performance from the 2025 Ozark Folk Center Mountain Dulcimer Contest Champion Allison O’Shea from Brown County, Indiana.
In this week’s “From the Vault” segment, OHR producer Jeff Glover offers a 1986 archival recording of Ozark originals The Leatherwoods, featuring Jean Jennings & Kay Thomas on mountain dulcimers performing the classic hymn “Amazing Grace,” from the Ozark Folk Center State Park archives.
In his segment “Back in the Hills,” writer, professor and historian Dr. Brooks Blevins recounts the story of Mountain View, Arkansas’ infamous 1929 Connie Franklin murder trial from his book “Ghost of the Ozarks.”