Ricko Donovan- Hammered Dulcimer Virtuoso

Ricko Donovan

Thursday, August 20, 2009

6pm

$15+ donation requested

Call 970-243-4958 to reserve your seat, children 12+ welcome.

A virtuoso hammered dulcimer player of folk music from all over the world! Mainly Irish traditional. Ricko has a Nashville trio called Ricko Donovan and The Lost&Found, with Jennifer Halenar on violin and Dave "Move Over" Stover on the big double bass. He is also an accomplished songwriter and guitarist who has lived and performed all over Europe.

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“He renders ballads with the greatest sensitivity and the rest with the reckless abandon of a steamrolling train with no brakes…”–The Clare Champion***

"A skillfull master of a unique and beautiful instrument."-Cormac MacConnell, Clare FM Radio Ireland***

Ricko's Devil At My Door won Nashville's Spree Song Contest in the Alt/Country category in 1998. Two Irish releases received critical acclaim in Ireland Belgium and Germany. The Kilmoon Road is a fine folk album of Ricko's songs which featured some great West Clare musicians. It has sold over 2000 copies at shows and in select stores! The Hidden Well, a hammered dulcimer record of Irish tunes garnered regular airplay on Clare FM in Ireland. It has sold over 1000 copies worldwide. Ricko was the featured musician at Gregan's Castle Hotel in the Burren, County Clare from 2003-2005, delighting audiences regularly with his extensive Irish repertoire. Playing regularly alongside such legendary Irish musicians as Christy Barry and Charlie Piggot of De Danaan, he honed his craft at the hammered dulcimer. The result can be heard on The Laughing Silver String, a new CD of traditional Irish music featuring the hammered dulcimer with other traditional instruments. He has busked on the streets of Amsterdam, Munich, Berlin. Madrid, Brussels, Barcelona, Dublin, London, Birmingham, Edinbugh and loves Europe! The Hot Press in Ireland described Ricko's live performance as "a steamroller of a show, he gracefully rendered Irish songs. His own songs were engaging and captivating..." Now a Nashville-based regularly touring artist who has a new release pending for 2009.

Booking: Janes World Entertainment, Phone: 813.263.4807
E-Mail: janesworld@comporium.net

www.myspace.com/hammerdulcimer

Steve Eulberg

Steve Eulberg

www.steveeulberg.com

Steve played music from his newest album, just released this month...

"A Piece of It All" and more!

An Award-winning multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter, Steve Eulberg weaves mountain and hammered dulcimers
with a variety of unusual instruments to create thought-provoking, smile-inducing, toe-tapping acoustic experiences.

He has sung and composed for religious communities, union halls, picket lines, inter-faith retreats, mountain-top youth camps,
as well as the more familiar venues: clubs, coffeehouses, bookstores, festivals, charity benefits and showcase concerts.

Born and raised in the German-heritage town of Pemberville, Ohio, Steve was exposed to a variety of music in his home.
Early piano lessons were followed by trumpet in school band, and he became self-taught on ukelele and guitar and harmonica.
Mandolin was added at Capital University where, while majoring in History, he studied Ear Training,
Voice and took Arranging lessons from the Conservatory of Music.

While at college, he first heard hammered and mountain dulcimers, building his first mountain dulcimer just before his final year.
Seminary training took him the west side of Denver where he built his first hammered dulcimer.
With these instruments, he was able to give voice to the Scottish, English and Irish traditions to which he is also heir.

Following marriage in 1985 to Connie Winter-Eulberg he settled in Kansas City, Missouri. There he worked cross-culturally in a church of African-Americans,
Latinos and European Americans, with music being a primary organizing tool. He moved with his family in 1997 to be nestled beside the Rocky Mountains in Fort Coillins, Colorado.

Founder of Owl Mountain Music, Inc. he teaches and performs extensively in Colorado and Wyoming with tours across the US and the UK.
He delights in introducing the “sweet music” of dulcimers to people in diverse settings and in addition to his own recordings,
has included dulcimers in a variety of session work for other musicians.

In 2000 he was commissioned to create a choral composition featuring dulcimers for the Rainbow Chorus in Fort Collins.
It was recorded in the same year (BEGINNINGS). He is currently at work on a commissioned symphony that will feature hammered dulcimer and Australian didjeridu.

Eulberg passionately believes that music crosses cultural and language barriers because music builds community.
Influenced by a variety of ethnic styles, his music weaves vital lyric with rap, rock, folk, gospel and blues.
Audiences of all ages respond well to his presentation and to his warm sense of humor.

Steve is a member of Local 1000 (AFM), The Folk Alliance, BMI and BWAAG (Better World Artists and Activist’s Guild).