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Carol Walker -- Bio
Originally from Colorado, Carol Walker has lived in northern New Jersey since 1968. Her formal training includes a degree in Music Education, with majors in piano, harp, and voice. During her 32 years as a high school choral teacher, she was the recipient of the NJ Governor's Teacher of the Year Award. Now she is happily retired, and has been steadily pursuing all those free-lance performing, composing, and arranging projects that had been patiently simmering on the back burner.
As a professional piano accompanist she continues her association with various schools, churches, theater groups, and community choruses around the tri-state area, including the prestigious Masterwork Chorus of Morristown, NJ, where she is also the Assistant Director and leader of the Masterwork Women’s Chamber Ensemble.
Carol branched out from her formal classical training when she bought her first mountain dulcimer in 1999. This newly found avenue of folk music led her to connect with many other folk musicians, along with an invitation to join Wayfarers & Company, an eclectic old-time folk group based in Stroudsburg, PA. Carol was active with this group for over 15 years, adding vocal harmonies, and playing dulcimer, upright bass, piano, melodica, and harp. The Wayfarers have produced two CDs. www.WayfarersAndCo.net
She is a popular performer and workshop leader at national dulcimer festivals around the country, and has enjoyed traveling in her camper to these events in PA, CT, NY, VT, AL, KY, NC, LA, DE, OR, CO, NM, KS, and IN. In addition, she enjoys an active presence with several online festivals, including QuaranTUNE, North Georgia, and others. Her live solo dulcimer concerts have been presented at Willow Hall and Folk Project’s Troubadour concert series, both located in Morristown, NJ.
Carol is a three-time Top Five Finalist in the National Mountain Dulcimer Championship in Winfield, Kansas. She is an Endorsing Artist for Folkcraft Instruments, Woodburn, IN, and is the founder and director of the New York Dulcimer Orchestra, based in the Lower Hudson River Valley.
Carol published her 10th dulcimer instructional book in early 2023, and expects to release two more books by the end of the year; in addition she has produced three CDs, and one DVD with Homespun Music based in Woodstock, NY.
Originally from Colorado, Carol Walker has lived in northern New Jersey since 1968. Her formal training includes a degree in Music Education, with majors in piano, harp, and voice. During her 32 years as a high school choral teacher, she was the recipient of the NJ Governor's Teacher of the Year Award. Now she is happily retired, and has been steadily pursuing all those free-lance performing, composing, and arranging projects that had been patiently simmering on the back burner.
As a professional piano accompanist she continues her association with various schools, churches, theater groups, and community choruses around the tri-state area, including the prestigious Masterwork Chorus of Morristown, NJ, where she is also the Assistant Director and leader of the Masterwork Women’s Chamber Ensemble.
Carol branched out from her formal classical training when she bought her first mountain dulcimer in 1999. This newly found avenue of folk music led her to connect with many other folk musicians, along with an invitation to join Wayfarers & Company, an eclectic old-time folk group based in Stroudsburg, PA. Carol was active with this group for over 15 years, adding vocal harmonies, and playing dulcimer, upright bass, piano, melodica, and harp. The Wayfarers have produced two CDs. www.WayfarersAndCo.net
She is a popular performer and workshop leader at national dulcimer festivals around the country, and has enjoyed traveling in her camper to these events in PA, CT, NY, VT, AL, KY, NC, LA, DE, OR, CO, NM, KS, and IN. In addition, she enjoys an active presence with several online festivals, including QuaranTUNE, North Georgia, and others. Her live solo dulcimer concerts have been presented at Willow Hall and Folk Project’s Troubadour concert series, both located in Morristown, NJ.
Carol is a three-time Top Five Finalist in the National Mountain Dulcimer Championship in Winfield, Kansas. She is an Endorsing Artist for Folkcraft Instruments, Woodburn, IN, and is the founder and director of the New York Dulcimer Orchestra, based in the Lower Hudson River Valley.
Carol published her 10th dulcimer instructional book in early 2023, and expects to release two more books by the end of the year; in addition she has produced three CDs, and one DVD with Homespun Music based in Woodstock, NY.
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