Carol Stober

Carol Stober is a multi-instrumental musician, entertainer, teacher, and recording artist. Her musiccovers 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 atfestivals, museums, churches, country music theaters, and theme parks. She is an Alabama solo artscouncil artist, conducting residencies in public schools. She was on the staff of The Old Town School of FolkMusic in Chicago, Illinois, from 1980 to 1983, before relocating to Alabama where she has continuedteaching private students.Carol graduated from the University of Maryland in 1972 with a Bachelor of Science degree insecondary education. She served on the advisory board of The Autoharpoholic Magazine and contributedarticles for publication in it, as well as contributing to The Autoharp Quarterly and The AutoharpClearinghouse Publications.Carol has recorded three albums with autoharp, including: Patchwork, Country Sampler, andRebekah, Down Home Family Band. They have been reissued on CD. Her instructional titles include abook-tape Autoharp Instruction Set published by Workshop Records of Austin, Texas, and two autoharpinstruction videos: Melodic Autoharp (94965VX) and Easy Autoharp for Beginners (95087VX) published byTexas Music and Video Co., Levelland, Texas, and distributed by Mel Bay Publications. She has authoredthe 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.