When hammered dulcimer player Joshua Messick first heard the percussion instrument, he was 4. Before he was 20, he had arranged and composed music and had been named the 2003 National Hammered ...
Asheville musician-composer Joshua Messick proves that Christmas music doesn’t always need vocals to spread cheer and wonder. Messick released his “Hammered Dulcimer Christmas, Vol II” on Nov. 12 and ...
Press release from White Horse Black Mountain: Joshua Messick arrived in Western North Carolina a few years ago knowing no one except Black Mountain’s master hammered dulcimer builder Jerry Reed Smith ...