Fiddles, mountain music play at Harkin Store

Button box

jamboree

next Sunday

By FRITZ BUSCH

Journal Staff Writer

WEST NEWTON TOWNSHIP -- A good-sized crowd of onlookers brought their lawn chairs to enjoy a music Sunday at the Harkin Store.

Ken and Diane Stoll of Mankato played mountain music. He played guitar and she used a Hammered Dulcimer, an ancient trapezoidal instrument with several string courses.

Dulcimers originated in the Middle East and have many names in many lands. Stoll's dulcimer sounded like a harp.

Doug Howard and Dick Ness of the New Ulm String and Ensemble played show and light classical music on their violins.

On Sunday, Sept. 26, the Harkin Store, on Nicollet County Road 21, several miles northwest of New Ulm, will host a Buttonbox Jamboree from 1 to 4 p.m.

The store will be open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday, Saturday and Sunday on the first and second weekends of October.