Latin American Autoharp: 31 Latin Favorites Arranged for Autoharp Melody and Accompaniment

Carol Stober is a multi-instrumental musician, entertainer, teacher, and recording artist. Her music

covers a broad range of styles including bluegrass, country, folk, mountain music, traditional, and gospel.

She has taught autoharp workshops, judged autoharp competitions at major festivals, performed at

festivals, museums, churches, country music theaters, and theme parks. She is an Alabama solo arts

council artist, conducting residencies in public schools. She was on the staff of The Old Town School of Folk

Music in Chicago, Illinois, from 1980 to 1983, before relocating to Alabama where she has continued

teaching private students.

Carol graduated from the University of Maryland in 1972 with a Bachelor of Science degree in

secondary education. She served on the advisory board of The Autoharpoholic Magazine and contributed

articles for publication in it, as well as contributing to The Autoharp Quarterly and The Autoharp

Clearinghouse Publications.

Carol has recorded three albums with autoharp, including: Patchwork, Country Sampler, and

Rebekah, Down Home Family Band. They have been reissued on CD. Her instructional titles include a

book-tape Autoharp Instruction Set published by Workshop Records of Austin, Texas, and two autoharp

instruction videos: Melodic Autoharp (94965VX) and Easy Autoharp for Beginners (95087VX) published by

Texas Music and Video Co., Levelland, Texas, and distributed by Mel Bay Publications. She has authored

the books Appalachian Autoharp (95472) with a companion cassette, Cowboy Songs for Autoharp (97739),

Love Songs for Autoharp (99907), and co-authored Autoharping the Gospels (95473) with Steve Kaufman.