Irma Reeder
Irma Reeder, comes from generations of Ozark mountain musicians, including several fiddle makers. Singing melody and harmony with her sisters long before grade school, her mother taught her to play an open-G guitar using a pencil as a noter before her hand could reach around a guitar neck.
Irma has directed vocal and instrumental ensembles, worked as church music administrator and choir director for more than 35 years, and has taught music privately, and in school and church settings. She studied vocal performance for over 3 decades, as well as conducting, and various instruments. She has been a vocal soloist with symphony and theater groups, and performed with chorales, opera and light opera companies. She teaches voice, guitar, Celtic harp, and mountain dulcimer and plays a wide variety of other instruments. Irma enjoys teaching and performing and is passionate about sharing her love for the mountain dulcimer.
Irma came to the dulcimer in 2005, and is the 2009 Colorado State, 2011 Texas State, and 2016 Southern Regional Mountain Dulcimer Champion, a national finalist in 2018, and placed 3rd in the national mountain dulcimer contest in Winfield, KS in 2021. She has been a finalist in the New Mexico Music Awards in 2018, 2019, and 2020. Irma is a workshop leader, manager, and past Board member of the Albuquerque Folk Festival, and has enjoyed teaching at a number of dulcimer festivals. She co-founded the New Mexico Dulcimer Festival in 2010 where she is Association President, Festival Director, and an instructor/performer. Irma has 3 CDs, Lady Mary, Midwinter’s Promise, and Possibilities. She recently completed a dulcimer TAB book, The Gift of Snow, in 2021.
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