Spring Augusta Week
Novice/Beginning Autoharp
Christie Burns

Ask Christie Burns how she started playing the hammered dulcimer, and shell tell you it was love at first sight. The instrument drew her into the world of folk music, and led her to pursue her B.A. in Ethnomusicology at UCLA. During her senior year abroad in Ireland, Christie founded and directed the Cork Dulcimer Festival, and there began to network with musicians from all over the world. Christie has taken her music to Sweden, England, Scotland, Belgium, Hungary, Switzerland, and Germany, as well as festivals all over the United States, and has collected music in every place she's been. Christie has her M.A. in Folk Studies from Western Kentucky University, and has now made Chattanooga her home. Christie is a co-founding director of Chattanooga's Mountain Music Folk School, and between her administrative work, teaching, and playing, she maintains a music blog at www.christieburns.com.