Jamie Janover & Friends

A self-taught musician and photographer, Jamie Janover has developed numerous interests into a full-time creative career. He began playing music on the drums at age fourteen and has gone on to become a diverse instrumentalist, familiar and comfortable with many different styles of music. His greatest strength, however, lies in his ability to listen. He has done extensive exploration into the realm of improvisation and is especially recognized as a true innovator on the hammered dulcimer, He brings new direction to the ancient instrument by applying diverse percussive techniques drawn from the other instruments he plays: drumset, multi-percussion, tabla, udu, bongos, congas, timbales and didjeridoo. In September, 2002, Jamie won the 2002-2003 National Hammered Dulcimer Championships in Winfield, Kansas.