Sam Edelston

Sam Edelston is on a quest to bring mountain dulcimers into widespread use in popular music. His videos have been viewed more than 1,000,000 times, embracing much of the rock and pop spectrum, plus bluegrass, bossa nova, Sousa, opera, and more. On acoustic and electric dulcimer, he often makes his three strings sound like more than one instrument, and has gained a reputation as an innovative arranger. Sam has performed and taught at a variety of festivals and other venues around the Northeast, and is becoming a popular performer in other parts of the country, having appeared in places like Louisiana, Minnesota, Colorado, and Kentucky Music Week. Sam was fortunate enough to be the featured artist at the very first online dulcimer festival (Berkeley Dulcimer Gathering, May 2020), and altogether has taught and performed at a dozen virtual festivals. He is chair of the Nutmeg Dulcimer Festival in Connecticut (online the past two years). In addition, he now teaches courses and private lessons on Zoom. One workshop student commented, "As zany as Sam is, he is a patient, knowledgeable, caring teacher. Also experienced, smart, creative, etc." And as a preschooler once told her mother, "Rosie's daddy came in and sang to us today. He was so much fun. Can he be my daddy, too?" He is honored to be a part of QuaranTUNE again.

www.SamTheMusicMan.com