Musician to feature dulcimer at Round Barn
ARCADIA — Mountain dulcimer artist Paul Bostick will perform from 10:30 a.m. to noon Saturday at the Arcadia Round Barn.
Bostick will bring several of his dulcimers and provide education about the instrument, which is a four-stringed variation of the zither. The mountain dulcimer was popular in the mid-to-late 1800s but fell out of favor until the 1960s when it was reintroduced by folk musicians, Bostick said.
Dressed in Civil Warera attire, Bostick often performs at battle reenactments and also plays the jaw harp, which he said children especially love to hear. People who visit the Round Barn on Saturday morning will be invited to examine and play the instruments he will have on display. Kids can help create a concert atmosphere by following along with one of Bostick’s lumberjack toys, a dancing toy popular in the late 1800s.
“It’s just fun, the whole history of folk music,” Bostick said.
Bostick is a retired police officer who works for the city of Stillwater’s code enforcement office. In addition to music from the Civil War era, he plays Celtic music, hymns and 1960s folk tunes.
The concert is part of the Arcadia Round Barn’s new Morning Music series launched by singer-songwriter Joe Baxter, who also produces the Round Barn Rendezvous on the second Sunday afternoon of the month. Ben and Alycia Goeke, of Edmond, will perform from 10:30 a.m. to noon May 4, and Kelsey Avants, of Duncan, is scheduled for May 5.
“And Then There Were Two,” a Tulsa band, will headline the May 13 Round Barn Rendezvous, which will start at noon in the barn loft.
The Round Barn is five miles east of Interstate 35 on Route 66 and is open daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is free, but donations are accepted for the maintenance of the barn, which is owned and operated as a museum and gift shop by the nonprofit Arcadia Historical and Preservation Society.