Instructors for 2026 will be announced soon.

Now based in North Carolina, Ken Bloom has been a professional musician all his life and has had experience playing in a wide range of circumstances.  Traditional music from this country as well as many other parts of the world has been a keen interest of Ken’s for decades.  He was trained in woodwork by his father from an early age, and Ken now devotes much of his time to building bowed dulcimers as well as several other instruments.  He developed the bowed dulcimers he is now building from the older traditional ones, some dating back centuries.  Performing has also been a very important part of Ken’s musical life, and he has done so in several countries and at many festivals all over North America.