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Alex Lubet At a Place Far Away

Hi All, I suspect this is pretty unusual, as is everything I do on mountain dulcimer.  It's a fantasy on a Chinese folk song that I composed...
@Alex_Lubet started 3 weeks ago - replies: 4

Waves by Iris Shiraishi

This piece was composed for me by my wife Iris Shiraishi, who joins me on percussion.  The percussion is optional, but the piece is much better...
@Alex_Lubet started 2 weeks ago - replies: 2

Gunung Singgalang

Hi All, This piece was written for me by one of my former students, Jay Afrisando, who's from Indonesia and uses folk music from his country....
@Alex_Lubet started 3 weeks ago - replies: 2

An accomplished guitar player on my homemade dulcimer

I had no idea one could get such sounds from this plank. Rocking
@Terry Jaye started 2 months ago - replies: 0

Not normally a rock song, but...

Here's a song I just posted that actually comes from the folk world, but my performance of it deviates more toward rock. It's "Garbage!" - written...
@Sam Edelston started 2 months ago - replies: 5

Cyndi Lauper to R&R Hall of Fame! So, True Colors

I didn't plan to post another video so soon, but Sunday night they announced this year's inductees for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, and they...
@Sam Edelston started 2 months ago - replies: 1

Close to You with a Dulcimer

Hi friends - Do we have any Carpenters of Burt Bacharach/Hal David fans here? Here's a new video of "Close to You," one of the beautiful love...
@Sam Edelston started 3 months ago - replies: 5

Confident with a Dulcimer

Here's a hit song from about 10 years ago by Demi Lovato. It's called "Confident," and though I play it as an instrumental, it's a song about...
@Sam Edelston started 5 months ago - replies: 2

Space Oddity - live - on electric dulcimer

I performed this at the wonderful Colorado Dulcimer Festival earlier this month. David Bowie's glam rock classic, "Space Oddity," with an electric...
@Sam Edelston started last year - replies: 1

You've Got a Friend

An attempt of the feel of the original, when played on dulcimer. Folkcraft dulcimer.
@Janene Millen started last year - replies: 2

Psychedelic dulcimer: White Rabbit

It's been way too long since I posted a new video. Here's one. I was teaching a rock dulcimer class recently, talking about music from...
@Sam Edelston started 3 years ago - replies: 4

The Canadian Railroad Trilogy (Gordon Lightfoot cover)

The Canadian Railroad Trilogy dulcimer cover - YouTube
@Gordon Hardy started 2 years ago - replies: 8

Waiting for a Train (Jimmie Rodgers cover)

The classic tune by the Blue Yodeler.
@Dusty Turtle started 2 years ago - replies: 0

Kentucky Waltz (Bill Monroe cover)

Bill Monroe is rightly known as the father of bluegrass, but he also wrote a number of excellent tunes.  Here is my 3-stringed attempt at...
@Dusty Turtle started 2 years ago - replies: 0

"Lucy in the Beatles Festival with Effect Pedals"

In July, I performed in a big Beatles festival in Charlotte, NC, called FabFest. Among their special guest performers were Micky Dolenz (of the...
@Sam Edelston started 3 years ago - replies: 4

All is Found from Disney's FROZEN 2

Haven't seen it but stumbled upon this interesting lullaby from the movie
@Janene Millen started 3 years ago - replies: 0

The Cars on dulcimer - "Just What I Needed"

When I demonstrate dulcimers to people, I like to ask them, "What kind of music do you love?" One day, I was giving a demo and lesson to a...
@Sam Edelston started 5 years ago - replies: 8

New World Symphony

I recently played an online concert set, and I wanted to include something slow and beautiful. This is what I came up with. (The video here was...
@Sam Edelston started 4 years ago - replies: 3

Fascinating Rhythm

This song works on a standard dulcimer in DAD, key of D.  The Gershwins' classic, Fascinating Rhythm. First verse is instrumental, melody over...
@Sam Edelston started 4 years ago - replies: 0

"The Zoo"

Cover of a 1980 song by The Scorpions, a German hard rock group. The song is about the band's first visit to New York City and checking out the...
@Sam Edelston started 4 years ago - replies: 4