Hailed by Pete Seeger as “the best hammered dulcimer player I’ve heard in my life,” Tina Bergmann has been performing concerts, and teaching workshops and private lessons from an early age. A fourth-generation musician, Bergmann began playing music at age eight, learning the mountain dulcimer from her mother in the aural tradition and learning the hammered dulcimer at the knee of West Virginia-native builder and performer Loy Swiger. Demonstrating gifts for both performance and teaching, she has been a featured performer across the United States, performing solo; as a duo with her husband, bassist Bryan Thomas; with her stringband Hu$hmoney; and both nationally and internationally as a member of Apollo’s Fire, Cleveland’s world renowned Baroque Orchestra.
Photo by Deborah-Lynn Hook
Selected Performances
“And to my ears, there can never be enough of Tina Bergmann, the hammered dulcimer player who makes ecstatic gold of everything she touches.”
— Daniel Rosenberg, Plain Dealer
The UU Dome, Tampa FL
Center for Fine & Performing Arts, Bozeman MT
Cranberry Dulcimer Festival, Binghamton NY
31st Annual Kent State Folk Festival, Kent OH
Southwest Acoustic Music Festival, Tucson AZ with Bryan Thomas
Tour of England and Ireland (with Apollo's Fire)
Countryside concert series (since 1994 with Apollo's Fire,) Hunting Valley, OH
Severance Hall Key Concerts, Cleveland OH
The Memphis Dulcimer Festival, Memphis TN
Winter Festival of Acoustic Music, Irving, TX
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC (Tina with Apollo's Fire)
Upper Potomac Music Festival, Shepherdstown VA
The Housatonic Festival in New Milford, CT
Fort New Salem Music Festival, Salem WV
The 58th Annual Ojai Music Festival (Tina with Apollo's Fire) Ojai, CA