Feb 27, 2018 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Composer, Composing, Harness Your Muse, Harping & Harpists, [Mentorship-HYMM] Harness Your Muse |
Are you DONE? What does DONE even mean??? After decades of creating and performing my own music, my definition of ‘done’ means ‘in sharable form.’ My whole life I’ve been a composing-perfomer and ’til now, “Done” meant...
Dec 28, 2016 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Harness Your Muse, Harping & Harpists, Hip Harp Academy, [Mentorship-HYMM] Harness Your Muse |
What is the “Harness Your Muse” Mentorship? “Harness Your Muse” is a 12-Month Group Program, to support and complete your next creative project, whether that’s an album, a concert, a one-person show — or a program for your local...
Oct 13, 2016 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Harping & Harpists, [Mentorship-HYMM] Harness Your Muse |
Kathy King is a member of my Hip Harp Academy. I started noticing something unusual about her final projects: she was always dressing up in costume. She didn’t stop there. In her 2nd or 3rd online course with me, she turned in a final project called...
Sep 24, 2016 | Harping & Harpists, [Mentorship-HYMM] Harness Your Muse |
You may think a librarian’s job is boring – but librarians share their world with the greatest stories of all time. One of my favorite kinds of stories is the story of a lost passion that’s rediscovered — and finally lived to its fullest. #Librarians share their...
Sep 14, 2016 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Harping & Harpists, [Mentorship-HYMM] Harness Your Muse |
It’s something I’m just not good at: teaching beginners how to play an instrument. My coaching is all for advanced beginners to professionals. But I know someone who’s REALLY good at teaching beginners … Her name is Shelley Fairplay, and...
Aug 12, 2016 | Collaboration, Creativity, Harping & Harpists, Performing, [Mentorship-HYMM] Harness Your Muse |
Have you ever wondered what it’s like to be in the creative laboratory of an artist’s mind? The Pluck Harp Cabaret is a series of mini-showcases live on stage and remote via video in which the performers in my “Harness Your Muse” mentorship share their yearlong...
Jul 20, 2016 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Collaboration, Events, Harping & Harpists, Musical Theater, Performance, Press Release, [Mentorship-HYMM] Harness Your Muse |
TICKETS ON SALE NOW! Four Shows: Aug. 10 – 13 at the Regent Underground in Arlington, MA 7 Medford Street ~ Arlington, MA CLICK HERE to buy LIVE Ticket NOW! No time to buy now but want to get reminders? Click here to get on the First-to-Know List CLICK HERE to...
Jun 20, 2016 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Creativity, [Mentorship-HYMM] Harness Your Muse |
Two weeks ago, a new Grand Piano came into my life, and sits in the room that was always waiting for The Grand Piano (see this post about how that happened). A week ago, my house cleaner came for the first time post-new-piano and we were talking about it in our...
Jun 17, 2016 | Composing, [Mentorship-HYMM] Harness Your Muse |
For more than 40 years I’ve wanted a grand piano. I wanted it so keenly that I made a illusionary grand piano, like Gepetto made an illusionary boy named Pinnochio … and last week my illusionary piano magically transformed into a real one (see this blog...
Jun 17, 2016 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Inside Look, [Mentorship-HYMM] Harness Your Muse |
One of my greatest luxuries is taking a hot bath and reading a book. I know it’s decadent, but there, I’ve admitted it. I’ve managed complex arrangements in hotel rooms to create impromptu reading stands just out of splash-range because my #1 rule of...
