I send out a monthly email with details on whatever public gigs we’re playing. If you’d like to be on the email list, zap me an email!  mick@nwdulcimer. 

We also play private gigs which won’t be listed here (you can hire us!) — the public gigs are listed below.

Sunday, May 3, 5-7pm — Oakshire Beer Hall Patio —  Spud Siegel and I welcome our super-sub Annie Staninec to play our long standing First Sunday gig. (Steve will be back in June!) Always a good time, and hey, they have beer, cider and other beverages, pizza, salad, and you can bring food from other local eateries. 5013 NE 42ND AVE, PORTLAND, OR

Thursday, May 14 through Sunday May 17 — The Hammer Dulcimer Rendezvous — I’ll be busy directing this wee dulcimer festival in Sandy, Oregon for a long weekend of hammerbox workshops, discussions, special sessions, and fun for hammerheads traveling here from Florida, Alaska & Hawaii, not to mention many players from Washington, California, and yep, Oregon. If you ever want to play the hammer dulcimer, get in touch!

Sunday, May 24, 6-8pm — Mark Verhencamp and I welcome super-sub Lauren Sheehan to play a couple all-acoustic (nary a microphone in sight!) sets at the Goose Hollow Inn. (Spud’s off doing his boat skipper gig, counting fish or doing riverbed cores for dioxins.) Good beer & wine list, and the Best Ruben on the Planet! (The Ruben is mighty good, and comes traditional or with turkey or in a meatless cheese version, which I don’t understand the point but it must be good, ‘cuz it’s Rachel’s Ruben.) 1927 SW Jefferson St., Portland, OR

June 4-7 — The Virtual Dulcimer Festival — If you’re interested in hammer dulcimer, mountain dulcimer, autoharp, and many other folks intstruments, this is a fun an affordable way to both take workshops (Friday and Saturday) and check out performers from across the country and overseas in 5 concerts over 4 days. In one of the concerts, my set followed a mountain dulcimer player in Paris, and I was followed by a hackbrett player in Munich! Last time around I heard a wonderful yanchin player from her home studio in Taiwan. (Hackbrett and yanchin are the German Chinese versions of what we call the hammer dulcimer.)

Sunday, June 7, 5-7pm — Oakshire Beer Hall Patio —  Steve Einhorn will be back to play with Spud and me for our First Sunday gig! Always a good time, and hey, they have beer, cider and other beverages, pizza, salad, and you can bring food from other local eateries. 5013 NE 42ND AVE, PORTLAND, OR

Thursday, June 11, 6-8pm — Double Mountain Tap Room — Spud Siegel, are joined by our fine fiddling friend George Penk for a couple sets of fun songs and tunes in this fun public house in the Woodstock neighborhood.

Sunday, June 28, 6-8pm — Spud Siegel and Mark Verhencamp will play a couple all-acoustic (nary a microphone in sight!) sets at the Goose Hollow Inn. (I’ll be away that week to visit family.) The Goose has a good beer & wine list, and the Best Ruben on the Planet! (The Ruben is mighty good, and comes traditional or with turkey or in a meatless cheese version, which I don’t understand the point but it must be good, ‘cuz it’s Rachel’s Ruben.) 1927 SW Jefferson St., Portland, OR

Sunday, July 7, 5-7pm — Oakshire Beer Hall Patio —  Spud Siegel, Steve Einhorn and I play our First Sunday gig! Always a good time, and hey, they have beer, cider and other beverages, pizza, salad, and you can bring food from other local eateries. 5013 NE 42ND AVE, PORTLAND, OR

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…recent different sortsa gigs…….

The Trail Sextet are former members of the Trail Band. We were also guests in last year’s program and it was lovely — a lot of great singers and arrangements, as well as the top singers from schools in the Salem area in a youth choir. We play a set of instrumentals, as well as accompany the chorus on several other pieces, some of which will are arranged by Phil and Cal. (video by Deb Chase)

Below see the Snakeskinners: