Peggy Carter
 
 
After many years teaching school music Peggy is now teaching and performing music on the hammer dulcimer and Appalachian Mountain dulcimer across the USA and abroad. She has won both the Texas Hammer Dulcimer Championship and the Southern Regional Hammer Dulcimer Championship and several of her students participate in dulcimer competitions. One of them, Josh Messick recently won the National Hammer Dulcimer championship at the age of 18. For eight years Peggy, with Texas Bound, provided live music for the Country Peddler Craft Shows in Texas and Louisiana, and has performed at venues around Houston such as the Houston Rodeo, the Museum of Fine Arts, The George Library, many schools, churches and community events and at the Dickens-On-The-Strand Victorian Festival in Galveston Here are some of Peggy's accomplishments: 1) Won the 1994 Texas State Hammer Dulcimer Championship, and the 1996 Southern Regional Competition. 2) Selected for the touring roster of both the Texas Commission for the Arts and Young Audiences of Houston. 3) As a soloist or with her string band, Texas Bound, she brings audiences an exciting program of fiddle tunes, planxtys, jigs, reels, hornpipes, polkas, gospel and Classical Music. 4) She's Toured frequently since 1995, and performed across the USA and abroad. 5)She has been on the program at the Texas Music Educators Convention and the Florida Music Teachers Convention presenting workshops for music teachers on using the dulcimer in the General Music classroom. 6) She is frequently invited to perform and accompany at schools, craft shows and festivals in Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas, and has performed throughout Texas, Louisiana, North Carolina, California, Idaho and Florida. 7) In 2000 she made a performance tour to Ireland and since that time she has done over 100 performances every year at venues that include: • The Ozark Folk Center in Mt. View, AR • The Houston Rodeo • The Houston Summer Acoustic Music Festival (SAMFest) • The Texas Folk Life Festival in San Antonio • The Texas State Arts and Crafts Fair in Kerrville, TX • The Ranching Heritage Festivals in Kingsville, and Refugio, TX • The Dickens-On-The-Strand Victorian Christmas festival in Galveston • Shindig-On-The-Green in Asheville, NC • The Missouri Valley Old Time Music Festival in Iowa • Silver Dollar City in Branson, MO • The Mission Beach Galleria in San Diego, CA • The Bonner County Fair in Sandpoint, ID • The Hill Country Acoustic Music Camp in Kerrville, TX. • The Rialto Theater in Ft. Collins, CO • The Tennesse Fall Homecoming in Knoxville, TN • Carter Fold in Hiltons, VA The year 2007 is promising to be as busy as ever with the following events already scheduled: • Jan 5 - 7: Kentucky Winter Weekend, Bardstown, KY • Jan 26 - 28 : Houston Winter Workshop Weekend, Houston, TX • Feb. 24 : “Pot O’ Gold” Dulcimer Workshop, Houston, TX • March 3: Private Wedding • March 17: St. Patrick’s Day Concert, Houston TX • March 27 : Antique Show in Bellville, TX • April 27 - 28: Spring Fest @ Rebel State Historical Site, Marthaville, LA • May 11 - 13: Lone Star Dulcimer Festival in Glen Rose, TX • May 27: Fellowship Community Church, Norwalk, IA • June 9: Literacy Volunteers Fund Raiser, George Library, Richmond, TX • July 19 - 21: ODPC Dulcimer FunFest, Evart, MI • July 22 - 28: Heritage Dulcimer Camp, KC, MO ° Aug. 22 - 25: Bonner County Fair, Sandpoint, ID ° Sept. 15 - 16: Southern CA Dulcimer Heritage Festival, Dana Point, CA • Sept 22: “Winter White” Dulcimer Workshop, Houston, TX • Oct. 3: Antique and Craft Show, Bellville, TX ° Oct. 28 - Nov. 3: Alabama Folk School Music Week, Jasper, AL • Nov 7: Book Signing, Willow Creek Book Store • Dec. 1: Dickens-On-The-Strand Victorian Festival, Galveston, TX • Dec. 10: Museum Of Fine Arts Holiday Open House, Houston, TX Peggy has produced four CDs and numerous books and arrangements for hammer dulcimer, Mt. dulcimer and acoustic ensembles. Publicity B & W Pictures
The sounds of the dulcimer echo across the hills and back porches of  bygone days.
 
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Listen to samples of performances, School shows  and teaching workshops by Peggy
Dulcimer jam session
Peggy tells stories and plays music
at the Tennessee Fall
Homecoming  Festival
Listen to examples of performances by Peggy
Peggy with w. Strings & Things
Playing music of Early America
and the Texas Frontier
Peggy with with
The Merrie Waits Of Windsor
plays Celtic and British Isles Music
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