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Thread #116434   Message #2500603
Posted By: Will Fly
23-Nov-08 - 06:43 AM
Thread Name: Dulcimer player Roger Nicholson
Subject: Dulcimer player Roger Nicholson
I treasure a 1970s album from the English mountain dulcimer player Roger Nicholson. It's titled "Nonesuch for dulcimer" and Roger was accompanied by guitarist Robert Johnson (the "other" Robert Johnson), alias Bob Johnson who played with other folk outfits. As far as I'm aware, Roger didn't make any other dulcimer recordings - please correct me if there are others - and his playing, along with the dulcimer playing of Jean Ritchie and John Pearse, was a revelation to me at the time.

I was trying, on and off and in vain, to find out where Roger is or isn't, on the scene. With the recent, and kindly, help of Jean Ritche and Lorraine Hammond, I found out that Roger is frail after a severe heart attack, is not online, but is doing lots of reading, taking up the uke, and happy to communicate by snailmail with anyone who wishes to contact him.

I have his London address and can pass it on to other 'Catters (PMs, please) who remember Roger and who may wish to contact him.