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Don Pedi
Close to Home
Saturday nights 8 to 10 on BPR Classic

Traditional, old-time, and classic folk music with Don Pedi.

Since 1985 local dulcimer player Don Pedi has served as an on air host at WCQS. Close to Home features traditional, old-time, and classic folk music.

For over thirty years Don has amazed and delighted audiences with his unique "fiddle-pick" style of playing the dulcimer. Drawing on decades of association with many of the best musicians in the southern mountains, as well as his deep commitment to preserving the old music, Don carries on the tradition in an exciting and innovative fashion unrivaled on the Mountain Dulcimer.

Don won first place in the first contest he ever entered at the 1974 Fiddler's Grove Festival, in Union Grove, North Carolina. Before retiring from festival competitions in 1982, he had won over thirty first place trophies and awards.

In 2003 Don represented Appalachia at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Don and his music appear in the motion pictures: "Songcatcher" and "The Journey of August King."

Read more about Don and his music at his web site.