Steve Eulberg: What's New?

"a piece of it all" ranked in the top 10 of local spins on KRFC fm 88.9, our local homegrown, community-powered radio station, Oct 20-26 and Oct 29-Nov 2, 2007. Available streaming on the internet.

"a piece of it all" has 5 songs in the top 40 of the Independent Country and Independent Inspirational Charts reported by The Music Review.

Here's the October update:

"war is sweet" which topped the Indie Country chart in September remained in the top 10 at #9, where it debuted in August.

"i miss america" entered in the top 20 charting at #18 in October.

"a ship may be safe" which entered at #19 in August, rose to #15 in September and now logs in at #39 for October.

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"rock on rock" entered the Top 40 Independent Inspirational Chart at #27 in August, climbing to #9 in September, stayed in the top ten at #3 for October.

"beauty in the world" entered the same chart at #36 in September, rising to #30 in October.

JamPlay.com, where I teach on-line video guitar lessons for Beginners, Bluegrass and Fingerstyle lessons, has passed 1,500 subscribers! Check it out!

Look for Holiday-Specific Lessons coming soon.

"a piece of it all" is on the 50th GRAMMY Ballot:

Field 14 Folk
Category 69 Best contemporary folk/americana album
Entry #050

Visit the "Listen to Music" to the left to listen and the "Buy Music" link to the left to purchase!

JamPlay.com, where I teach on-line video guitar lessons for Beginners, Bluegrass and Fingerstyle lessons, has passed 1,000 subscribers! Check it out!

The Music Review, reports that in September 2007, "War is Sweet" (from "a piece of it all") reached the #1 slot on their Independent Country Chart!

Eulberg's new CD, "a piece of it" all, is garnering radio airplay worldwide:

"War is Sweet" breaks into the Top 10! The Music Review's Top 40 Independent Country Songs August 2007 debuts Eulberg's song at #9. (His highest entry in this chart!)

Rein Wortelboer of OMROEP VENRAY in The Netherlands spun "Who am I?" and "Beauty in the World" in the first week of August.

Country Music Denmark on Radio Dandelion chose "Beauty in the World in July and "Rock on Rock" in August.

Music 4 You, also in Denmark spun "Careless Love" in August.

Bob's Country Show, Radio Eketahuna, New Zealand, closed their 8/3/07 show with Porch Swingin' and War is Sweet.

Friday late night show on Rockabilly Radio, Oamaru, New Zealand featured 4 tracks "Set Your Back (to the Setting Sun)", "Beauty in the World", "Porch Swingin'"and "A Ship May Be Safe".

Jean Castro of Radio Frequence Verte in Marmoutier, France featured a tri-fecta of "A Ship May Be Safe", "Careless Love" and "I Miss America" in the middle of its 8/10/07 show.

"War is Sweet" was played on Hootenany Power from Baton Rouge on 8/6/07.

The Colorado Sound on KRFC, Fort Collins Colorado included "a piece of it all" in its July report for year-to-date top spins for the month of July. Eulberg's new CD is one of 4 in second position (19 spins).

Contact your local radio station to request Steve Eulberg's music on your favorite show. If they don't have the CD, send us the DJ or program manager's name and station address and we can help you be a piece of it all, too!

Steve Eulberg has been cast as "Musician" in the Openstage Theater Production of Arabian Nights by Mary Zimmerman.

Eulberg will play santur (Persian hammered dulcimer) on stage with percussionists as musical accompaniment and sound effects for the 2-Act play.

The show, directed by Peter Anthony, will be performed on weekends throughout September at the Lincoln Center mini-theater in Fort Collins, Colorado.

"It is very exciting to be part of live theater again," Eulberg notes, "and wrapping my head around arabic maqamat is challenging and fun. The santur is likely the original version of the hammered dulcimer (which is played from right to left, unlike any other instrument in the Western world) so I get to connect with its ancestry as well!"

Visit the Openstage Theater Company's website for more details about showtimes and links to purchase tickets.

Steve Eulberg, a popular teacher at JamPlay.com, has added more Bluegrass Lessons (now totalling 8) and has begun to record Fingerstyle Guitar lessons for this on-line guitar resource.

Visit http://www.jamplay.com and try them out!

"Coventry Carol" from Steve's 2003 release "'Twas in the Moon of Wintertime" was chosen for the 3rd Volume in the Masters of the Mountain Dulcimer series produced by Susan Trump.

The recording, which will be released this Fall, features seasonal Christmas tunes from mountain dulcimer players across the country.

Steve's "Noel Newvelet" from his 2001 release, "Soaring", was tapped for the Masters Vol. 2 collection.

"It is an incredible honor to be included with the stellar dulcimer players invited by Susan for these projects. I am touched and humbled," Steve remarked from Parkville, MO (Kansas City) where he is teaching Beginning Hammered Dulcimer and conducting the Mountain Dulcimer Orchestra for the Heritage Dulcimer Camp.

Like Volumes 1 & 2, this release will be mastered by Charlie Pinzer of Airshow Mastering.

"a piece of it all" is getting live-air and internet spins, report several DJs.

Jeff Koepke: KRFC 88.9 fm, Fort Collins, Colorado June 30th

Ron Drury: July1st "CONGRATULATIONS on the CD release today STEVE!!!
So GLAD to hear that it is already selling(o:) In the first hour i baited the listeners in the 1st hour with"We are an answer to Prayer" & "Dancing with Wu-Li"(both from Steve's 2005 release, I Celebrate Life).... and then in the NEW MUSIC FEATURE HOUR we played "Beauty in this world" and "Who Am I?!"!! We had the most positive response to "Who Am I?!"!! We will be playing more with all of this positive calls!"

Jim: Whole Wheat Radio (www.wholewheatradio.org), Talkeetna, Alaska, July 11th

Jennifer: July 11th "We received your cool CD today and just wanted to let you know that we've incorporated a couple of your fantastic tunes into our updated playlist. Ahhhh.....yes, I hear 'Sad' playing over the air right now as I write this note!

Also, we update our playlist every couple of weeks and will rotate your tracks at those times.

I'm proud to say that our growing audience is truly global with listeners coming from all over the world: US (of course), Canada, United Kingdom, Spain, Greece, China, Korea, Italy with listeners from numerous other countries tuning in on a regular basis. Needless to say, this is just what we were hoping for when we started our station up in April.

Thank you again Steve for sending the CD for our station - what lucky listeners we have!

Cordially,
Jennifer Ranger
Kattywompus Internet Radio
http://www.live365.com/stations/kattywompus
In addition, Steve will be hosted by Jo Ann Heddleston for KRFC's "Live @ Lunch" program from 12-1pm on Monday, July 16th. 88.9 fm or streaming on the internet: www.krfcfm.org
Contact your local radio station if you want to hear "a piece of it all" where you live!

"a piece of it all" is now released after completing the manufacturing process at www.discmakers.com!

A 13-song collection of original songs by Steve Eulberg, some of which have been simmering and steeping for 30 years, each piece of this recording explores a facet of the artist's soul.

Read about the recording process at Steve's blog: www.myspace.com/steveeulbergdulcimer

It's the cutting edge of disc-less music production! I've signed on with discrevolt.com (http://www.discrevolt.com) and have download cards for sale at my live performances.

What ARE these things? The size and shape of a credit card, each card has a unique serial number on it with which you are entitled to 15 downloads from the website. You are able to download 15 of my tunes (so far I've uploaded samples from each of my recordings) PLUS, you have access to the "featured songs" that all the artists on the website make available for all users.

Stop by discrevolt and check out the website and look for my page. (Steve Eulberg). I'm selling the cards for the introductory price of $12.00.

All the tracks are recorded and the mixing has begun at Pyramid Records in Toronto.

Steve has been journalling about this recording trip at his myspace blog http://www.myspace.com/steveeulbergdulcimer where he has posted a slide show (in addition to the photos to the left.)

Contact Steve seulberg@steveeulberg.com if you are interested in joining others who are sponsoring this recording.

Under the new management of Dan and Angie Landrum, the quarterly journal Dulcimer Player News has an added feature: a CD with cuts from the reviewed music section and each issue's articles.

"Full Moon" from the recent DVD release, "Serenade to the Canada Goose" is included as cut #14 on this CD!

The website for the 4th Annual Colorado Dulcimer Festival is now up and open for registration. Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church will be the location for this year's festival Feb 2-3, 2007.

Host Steve Eulberg will be joined by Janita Baker (MD), Ken Kolodner (HD), Erin Rogers (MD), Bonnie Carol (MD&HD) and Tina Gugeler (HD) for teaching, performing and jamming.

Visit the festival website: www.owlmntnmusic.com/dulcfest.htm
Take a look at photos from this year's Festival at www.steveeulberg.com/photos.html and scroll down to 4th Annual Colorado Dulcimer Festival.

Steve has finally launched the ship of a new recording project, under the Production of Ken Whiteley (www.kenwhiteley.com) in Toronto, Canada.

The bedtracks were laid down Jan 2-7 in a climate that was warmer and minus the snow of Colorado, much to to puzzlement of this lower 48-er. Able engineer Nick captured performances from Steve, Ken (on mandolin, lead guitars and grand piano), George Koller (bass) and Brad Hart (drums and percussion). He heads back to finish it in March. Meet this cast of characters in the photo gallery (www.steveeulberg.com/photos.html) and scroll down to Toronto Sessions.

Sponsorship of this project is welcome! (special benefits apply to those who sponsor). Contact Steve at seulberg@steveeulberg.com

Steve was interviewed by Studio Magazine (an on-line Journal of Folk & International Music & Dance) for the January 2007 issue.
You can read it here: http://www.SoKattywompus.com/ and click on Read Studio Magazine.

Studio magazine is organized by Jennifer Ranger of SoKattywompus.com

A new on-line instructional resource, Jamplay.com, will be launched early in 2007. Steve is the Basic Guitar Instructor and has recorded nearly a dozen Beginner lessons, along with beginning Bluegrass skills.

Come back for the offical launch date!
www.jamplay.com

Neal Walters writes in the current issue of Dulcimer Players News, "Steve Eulberg has composed an original soundtrack to an excellent video, "A Serenade to the Canada Goose."...

On this particular video Steve plays mountain and hammered dulcimers, banjomer, Indian flute and guitar as a backdrop to some gorgeous footage of the Canada geese in the wild. The video is 27 minutes long and follwos the geese through winter, spring, and summer and into the fall, when they must migrate north again.

...The music is an integral part of the therapy and Steve does a great job of catching the playfulness as well as the majesty of these beautiful birds in the wild."

(Read the whole review in the press section to the left)

Steve's mountain dulcimer original solo, Seton Sands, (from "I Celebrate Life!") has reached the top 10 of Broadjam.com's South Central Region. You can listen (and purchase!) the tune here: http://www.broadjam.com/top10
Click on "Region" then "South Central" to find the correct page.

And thanks to all the listeners who have listened and chosen the tune!

Keith Baker (center) and Peggy Carter join Steve Eulberg for a wide-ranging concert of dulcimer music at the beautifully restored Rialto Theater in Loveland.

Featuring tunes from the traditional acoustic repertoire (England, France, Ireland, Canada, Scotland) as well as Colorado Dutch Hop and WC Handy's St. Louis Blues and Duke Ellington's Mood Indigo, to Rich Mullins' Creed and Calling Out Your Name.

Winfield--Steve Eulberg once again took 2nd place in the National Mountain Dulcimer Championship held in Winfield, Kansas, Sept. 15, 2006. Jeff Hames from Mississippi took home the National Champion prize and Joe Collins, from North Carolina, won 3rd place. Duane Porterfield and Tom Haver received placques for also reaching the final round.

Below is the Press Release from the festival:

For release on or after September 16, 2006
Walnut Valley Association
918 Main, Winfield, Kansas 67156
(620) 221-3250

Mountain Dulcimer Contest Completed

On Friday, morning September 15th the 35th Annual Walnut Valley Festival Mountain Dulcimer Contest got under way with 16 contestants. These individuals represented 11 different states and when the cut to five was made contestants from KS, CO (2), NC, and MS prevailed.

First place was awarded to Jeff Hames, an 18-year old high school student of Madison, MS. This was Jeff’s second time to enter this contest. He placed 3rd in 2005. Jeff started playing this instrument at the tender age of 10 and he also plays the clarinet and guitar. He placed in the New Songs Showcase in 2005. His grandfather gave him his first Mountain Dulcimer; in fact his grandfather built this one for him. At Madison Central High School, Jeff plays in the band. Jeff believes he has a first in history; his band director asked him to play mountain dulcimer in the marching band and when they played for the first time with Jeff playing his Mt. Dulcimer, the marching band stopped playing and it was up to him to carry on. He was thinking, “don’t stop now!” Jeff’s comment on the Festival is “it’s the best place to go for music.” The 1st Place Trophy, $150, and a KOA Custom Mountain Dulcimer model 4FHKK by McSpadden Dulcimers of Mountain View, AR were awarded to Jeff for his efforts.

A veteran of this competition, Steve Eulberg of Ft. Collins, CO placed 2nd in this contest. He has entered this contest 14 times and has placed 2nd three times and 3rd two times. Steve is a professional musician by trade and also a music educator who teaches at three separate music schools. He plays many instruments among them of course is the mountain dulcimer, the hammer dulcimer, the mandolin, the guitar and the didjeri doo. He enters two contests in addition to this one; the hammer dulcimer and the finger-pick guitar. He bought a Folkroots mt. dulcimer kit after being told this instrument was impossible to play. As it turns out this was not true because he has been playing this instrument for the past 26 years. Steve calls the Walnut Valley Festival “an amazing celebration of Americana and the International Family of Music.” When dot playing music he enjoys his wife, his children, his dog, his reading and his writing; and they are in that order, too. A Cherry/Redwood Special, model 6FHCRB Mt. Dulcimer by McSpadden Dulcimers of Mountain View, AR, the 2nd Place Trophy and $125 were the prizes he earned.

The third place trophy, $100 and a Ginger Cherry/Spruce model 4FGC5 Mt. Dulcimer by McSpadden Dulcimers of Mountain View, AR, went to Joe Collins of Shelby, NC. Joe too is a veteran of this contest. In 2003 and 2004 he placed third in this contest. Joe has been playing this instrument for 28 years. His first Mt. Dulcimer was a Father’s Day present from his family. Joe is a multi-talented individual; he is a pastor, he has his Doctorate in Education and he currently teaches religion at Gardner-Webb University of Boiling Springs, NC. Joe considers teaching Sunday School one of his favorite hobbies. And yes, he thinks he’ll be back again to compete in this contest.
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JimJim & the FatBoys will host the 7th Annual Second Set Concert at their campsite in the Pecan Grove at 7:30 pm on Friday, Sept 15, 2006.

All Mountain Dulcimer contestants at the National Championship are expected to prepare (4) four tunes for performance in the contest. Only the Finalists (the top 5) are given the chance to play all 4. Because contestants number in the 20s, that is a lot of "orphan tunes" that have been lovingly prepared but don't get their hearing.

While the winning contestants are always honored and welcome, each contestant is invited to play his or her "second set" of tunes for the gathered assembly as the featured sets of this concert!

Then JimJim & the FatBoys (Steve Eulberg, Jim Pierce, Jeff Lilley and Jim Babcock) host a round-robin jam for a fitting conclusion to the National Championship Day at Winfield.

The JJFB Campsite can be found along the south side of the first road in the Pecan Grove, just west of the fire road, across the street from the firewood concession. The tan canopy is topped with the Scottish (St. Andrew's) flag and a JimJim & the FatBoys banner. Beautiful ie-dye from the Rogers family in Concordia, Kansas provides a festive backdrop for the evenings celebration.

Broadjam.com hosts a song-rating service (which is also used as an on-line avenue for submissions to the Taxi listings).

Two cuts from my latest recording, "I Celebrate Life!" have reached the top ten! "Seton Sands" and "O Virgin-ee-i-a" are in the Colorado top ten which can be reached at: http://www.broadjam.com/topten then follow the links at region to Colorado. "Seton Sands" is also in the top ten for the category: Production: other tempo.

Individual tunes can also be purchased at broadjam which is host to a wide variety of genres.