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Carol Walker -- Short Bio
Carol Walker’s formal training includes a degree in Music Education, with majors in piano, harp, and voice. For 32 years Carol was a high school choral teacher in northern NJ, with an active and successful program. In 2003 she was honored to receive the NJ Governor’s Teacher of the Year Award, and in 2008 retired after deciding it was time to let someone else have all the fun!
She branched out from her formal classical training after purchasing her first mountain dulcimer in 1999, and a folk harp in 2001. It wasn’t long before she found a way to combine her love of teaching with her new direction in folk music, and has been a popular workshop leader at festivals across the United States.
In 2014 she ventured for the first time to the famous Winfield Dulcimer Championship where her performance placed her as one of the Top Five Finalists. A second trip in 2016 resulted in another placement in the Top Five.
Carol has made two trips to the Isle of Man where she has done extensive research into traditional Manx music, producing two books of arrangements for mountain dulcimer (Tailless Tunes and Tailless Tunes 2) and a CD (Alas! The Horse is Gone), all exclusively devoted to this delightful Celtic-flavored music.
Carol has also written three other instructional dulcimer books (DNA* Dulcimer Ditties), each with accompanying CDs.
In 2015, Carol released her first instructional DVD (Exploring the Beauty of the Appalachian Dulcimer), produced by Happy Traum of Homespun Tapes.
Her long-awaited book of classical melodies appeared in 2017: Classical Dulcimer - Cwassical Favowites awwanged by Cawol Walker.
Since 2002 Carol has been performing with Wayfarers & Company, a Pennsylvania-based eclectic, old-time gospel folk group for which she adds vocals and also plays dulcimer, upright bass, piano, melodica, and harp.
Carol is married to world-class acoustic guitarist, Toby Walker, and occasionally joins him on stage as vocalist or bassist during his tours around the US and Canada, UK, Europe, and Cyprus.
Carol Walker’s formal training includes a degree in Music Education, with majors in piano, harp, and voice. For 32 years Carol was a high school choral teacher in northern NJ, with an active and successful program. In 2003 she was honored to receive the NJ Governor’s Teacher of the Year Award, and in 2008 retired after deciding it was time to let someone else have all the fun!
She branched out from her formal classical training after purchasing her first mountain dulcimer in 1999, and a folk harp in 2001. It wasn’t long before she found a way to combine her love of teaching with her new direction in folk music, and has been a popular workshop leader at festivals across the United States.
In 2014 she ventured for the first time to the famous Winfield Dulcimer Championship where her performance placed her as one of the Top Five Finalists. A second trip in 2016 resulted in another placement in the Top Five.
Carol has made two trips to the Isle of Man where she has done extensive research into traditional Manx music, producing two books of arrangements for mountain dulcimer (Tailless Tunes and Tailless Tunes 2) and a CD (Alas! The Horse is Gone), all exclusively devoted to this delightful Celtic-flavored music.
Carol has also written three other instructional dulcimer books (DNA* Dulcimer Ditties), each with accompanying CDs.
In 2015, Carol released her first instructional DVD (Exploring the Beauty of the Appalachian Dulcimer), produced by Happy Traum of Homespun Tapes.
Her long-awaited book of classical melodies appeared in 2017: Classical Dulcimer - Cwassical Favowites awwanged by Cawol Walker.
Since 2002 Carol has been performing with Wayfarers & Company, a Pennsylvania-based eclectic, old-time gospel folk group for which she adds vocals and also plays dulcimer, upright bass, piano, melodica, and harp.
Carol is married to world-class acoustic guitarist, Toby Walker, and occasionally joins him on stage as vocalist or bassist during his tours around the US and Canada, UK, Europe, and Cyprus.
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