I’m so proud to share this beautiful video of Cathy Hornby sharing her experience at Hip Harp Academy Kickstart Week.

The Hip Harp Academy Summer Quarter is all about The Power of Pattern where the members develop the skill of infinite creative expansion from a single consistent structure. The kickstart week started 25th July and the “Power of Pattern” starts July 31.

Here’s what she said:

“By being able to express my own arrangement. But with more reliable, relaxed hands. And that’s what I got from the academy actually. And after the sessions that we have, I always find that I can play all the other stuff that I want to play in a much more relaxed way.

It is the approach that is much more of your mantra of connection not perfection really helps me. The snippets and the patterns, and getting different shapes into my hands, that’s been incredibly helpful.

And the feedback and support of the community, and just the fun of playing is yeah I really look forward to the sessions. Because I do actually now understand more about the form of music than I do at the start of it.

So yeah on lots of levels, a greater confidence to just trust my hands, trust my ears, relax my playing. And that has freed up being able to sing with the harp which is what I always wanted to do anyway.

So yeah, all good.“

– Cathy Hornby

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