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Happy Song Tests
This was a little experiment I did playing around with a new song I’m working on and some funky video I happened to capture when I was recording it. The video was definitely ‘not ready for primetime’ so I started playing around with it, seeing what...
Geppetto & the Real Piano
I’ve wanted a grand piano for over 40 years. So last August I created one for myself out of an old table, two scarves, a couple music stands and an electronic keyboard. This week it turned into a real grand piano. More on how that happened in a later post, but...
Why is Hip HARP not Hip HOP or …What Happens when a Publicist makes a typo
My friend Lisa Lynne asked me to answer some questions for her upcoming where I live, is a hotbed of hip HOP. If I advertised myself in Boston as a Hip Hop artist, I’d be jeered off the stage. And rightly so. But I figured maybe the radio announcer just read the ad...
She’s Just TOO Wild! Or … What Was Your Worst Gig Ever … and WHY?
My friend Lisa Lynne is writing a by answering a series of questions including – what’s was your worst gig ever? What’s your worst gig ever? There’s really only one show I ever felt bad about – but it was pretty intense. I was booked as a...
What was your favorite marketing collaboration?
Hint: it included a herd of harpists crashing a symphony performance … but let’s go back to the beginning. My collaboration with the Tacoma Symphony a few years ago comes immediately to mind when someone asks me about best experiences collaborating. This...
How do you make the MOST of a Tech Disaster?
In Germany, in the early 90’s, I was road-testing a new electro-acoustic concert harp during a 6-week tour with my trio – Wolfgang Diekmann on bass and Davey Tulloch on percussion (it’s not the harp you see in this picture, by the way). It was a fabulous...
No Garden is Safe from Theatrical Transformation
One of my favorite things about being a performer is the act and experience of transformation – and as much as I love playing state-of-the-art theaters, I also love it when people transform a non-performance space into a performance space. I got to experience...
