May 6, 2017 | Blues, harp, Harping & Harpists, Harps |
This is an archive post ~ originally published May. 6, 2017 and updated in 2018 What if there was a language you could learn that let you speak – and listen – fluently with anyone in the world, regardless of their language? “Lingua Franca ~ ˌliNGɡwə...
Apr 26, 2017 | Blues, Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, harp, Harping & Harpists, Harps |
As I get ready to start my Blues HarpStyle 2017 online class with over 100 harpists from all around the world I’m thinking deeply about what the Blues IS and what it gives us. At it’s heart it’s such a simple form – 12 bars long, with infinite...
Apr 26, 2017 | Blues, Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Harping & Harpists, Harps |
I always wanted to do a little project like this: A 6 day series where harp players get one short riff each day and an MP3 Blues so they can play their HARPS out!! And this is it! Read more about Blues Harp “Riff-of-the-Day” project here. I created the...
Apr 14, 2016 | Blues, Collaboration, Harping & Harpists |
When I was a kid, my mom played the ukulele and sang. My dad played the banjo … and sang. Don’t get me wrong – it wasn’t idyllic. They were divorced – I never saw them play music together – but playing and singing was a natural...
Jan 15, 2016 | Blues, Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Harping & Harpists, Online Courses |
One of the things I do every time I give a new online course is to offer a free Webinar so potential students get a sense of what it’s like to work with me in one of my online programs, and get a taste of the course itself. Then I add it to the course itself as a...
Jan 14, 2016 | Blues, Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Collaboration |
My online Blues course for harp players starts today … and I first learned to play the ‘Swingin’ Shepherd Blues’ on the harp 30 years ago, I thought it was the coolest thing I’d ever played on the concert harp. 25 years later, Blues has become a huge part of my...
Jan 12, 2016 | Blues, Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning |
A message from Kathy DeAngelo of the Somerset Harp Festival on a cool new collaboration we cooked up today!! Would you handcuff yourself to your instrument when you play? No? Then why handcuff yourself to the notes on the page? When you feel like you’re holding on to...
Dec 23, 2015 | Blues, Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Harping & Harpists |
My new online course just for harp players just opened for registration! It starts January 14th – and if you haven’t gotten a gift for your favorite harp player (which may be YOU) – then get over to use the Early-Bird discount code...
Nov 1, 2015 | Blues, Events, Press Release |
=============== PRESS RELEASE – Run Through Jan. 9, 2016 • Live Show in the Boston-Area: BUY TICKETS for Sat. Jan 9 at Center for Arts in Natick (TCAN) • Livestream from your Livingroom: Get on the artist’s Livestream Guestlist =============== On Sat. Jan. 9 at...
