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Folk singer Rob Lackey is helping organize a benefit concert in Hindman, Kentucky -- a small town with less than 1,000 residents impacted by the July flooding.

FAIRMONT — When West Virginia experienced catastrophic flooding in 2016, Kentuckians were some of the first to help, now some mountaineers are returning the favor.

FAIRMONT — When West Virginia experienced catastrophic flooding in 2016, Kentuckians were some of the first to help, now some mountaineers are returning the favor.

You might be familiar with a traditional instrument called the mountain or lap dulcimer. But there’s another, lesser-known dulcimer in Appalachia called the hammer dulcimer. It’s a bigger, stationary instrument that isn’t related to the lap dulcimer at all. In fact, it’s a relative of a Ukrainian instrument called the tsymbaly.