Sep 25, 2021 | Hip Harp Academy |
Once upon a time, during one of the severe pandemics in the 21st century, when all people were forced to stay at home and could not meet and play music together … … an international community of DARING harp players met each week in a Virtual Academy to...
Sep 24, 2021 | Hip Harp Academy |
Not all harpists live a life of luxury, waltzing around in long flowing gowns. This harpist spends her day mucking out the manure … but on this day, she brought her harp with her. So … do animals get the Blues? Well … yes, if they’re lucky...
Sep 23, 2021 | Hip Harp Academy |
When do you have to choose between money and music? Last month I got an email from a student who’s learning improv and performance in my Hip Harp Academy. She was asking how to make the best use of her 4th year of membership – and how to rationalize the...
Sep 22, 2021 | Hip Harp Academy |
Early this year, Charlene Elderkin came to a Hip Harp Academy chat and said she had committed to putting on an outdoor concert in Viroqua, Wisconsin, using everything she’d learned in Hip Harp Academy. Not just a solo concert, but a concert with friends –...
Sep 22, 2021 | Uncategorized |
My online Academy for harpists is all about learning ways to use the skills of improv, arrangement and performance to express yourSELF – and it’s incredibly inspiring to me I see people use these skills. My goal in the Academy is to free each individual...
Aug 1, 2021 | Uncategorized |
3 mornings a week I meet my friend Neil at 8:15, we go through our day, look for where we’re likely to stumble, what we can put in place to avoid that, and at the end, we each share three affirmations. Now I’m turning those into music in a personal challenge called...
Jul 14, 2021 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Hip Harp Academy, Online Courses |
“Summer Harp Jam” is my 8-Week Playalong Improv Adventure that’s exclusively for harp players – lever or pedal, from fledgling to professional – and gives you a treasure chest of jams, vamps and play-alongs that strengthen your improvisation and rhythm skills while...
Jul 7, 2021 | Holidays, I Remember... |
Now that I’m dating … or at least visiting a couple dating apps daily, I have a whole new area of discomfort to enjoy in my life. Today I shared my dating photos with a new member of my team, Nyx. In the interest of making myself even more uncomfortable,...
Jun 19, 2021 | Holidays, I Remember... |
I share this photo and rewrite this blogpost every Father’s Day. It’s one of the only pictures I have of me and my Dad, and it’s on the day of his second wedding. Decades later, I would accompany my father as he sang at his own funeral – and...
Jun 19, 2021 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, harp, Harping & Harpists, Harps, Hip Harp Academy |
The doors are NOW OPEN for “Hands on Harmony” – my foundational class for harpists where you learn the basics of harmony with your HANDS (and your mind, of course) – at your own pace! “Hands on Harmony” is program for harpists that...
