Apr 17, 2025 | Composer, Composing, Concerts, Events, People I Meet, Performance, Performer, Performing, Tour Diaries, Travel |
From Paris to Wales From Paris, I’m heading to Wales which means a train under the Strait of Dover via the Eurotunnel – one of my favorite legs of the journey. But it means arriving in St. Pancras station and transferring to Paddington Station. Where...
Apr 10, 2025 | Composer, Composing, Concerts, Events, Hidden from Blog, People I Meet, Performance, Performer, Performing, Tour Diaries, Travel |
And I made it to Edinburgh!! The last leg of my Europe Tour is in Edinburgh. As one of the performers and presenters of the Edinburgh International Harp Festival, I’m so thrilled to have gone back to this beautiful hilly capital of Scotland. I took this selfie...
Apr 7, 2025 | Composer, Composing, Concerts, Events, People I Meet, Performance, Performer, Performing, Tour Diaries, Travel |
Private Paris Retreat … with the MIDI harp I got to Paris near midnight on Sunday night and made my way to the apartment where the MIDI harp was staying. Monday morning I met with Jakez and the Jean-Philippe to set the harp up with my computer – a replay...
Sep 5, 2019 | Concerts, Tour Diaries |
I had an eventful time up in Belfast, Maine for my show at the Crosby Center last month. The history of the center itself is fascinating – it was once a High School (it even appeared in the 1957 movie “Peyton Place” as the local High School). In 1996 it was...
May 8, 2018 | Composer, Concerts, Events, Tour Diaries, Weekly Ezine |
From the April 7, 2018 weekly Ezine Do you wonder sometimes, like I do, about where your own creative voice fits? And sometimes whether it does at all? If so, I want to tell you that your voice – no matter what it sounds like – is part of the rich ensemble...
May 4, 2018 | Composer, Events, Harping & Harpists, Tour Diaries |
Last week I got back from Tacoma, WA where I had the joy of playing with the passionate (and sometimes unexpectedly comedic) musicians in Symphony Tacoma and their great new conductor conductor Sarah Ioannides – and to introduce the “Tacoma...
Jul 26, 2017 | Collaboration, harp, Harping & Harpists, Harps, Instrument (My Instrument), Tour Diaries |
It’s a fascinating community: the international harp community – and it’s NOT just harp players. When we get together anywhere in the world – like in Hong Kong earlier this month – the events connect players, builders, composer,...
Jul 14, 2017 | harp, Harping & Harpists, Harps, Performance, Tour Diaries |
July 14, 2017 For many years I dreamed of stress-less trips to the airport with my harp – being able to hand the instrument over to luggage carriers, easy, turbulent-free flights – but I’d never ever dreamed of playing a concert at the airport. I’d NEVER...
Jul 13, 2017 | harp, Harping & Harpists, Harps, Performance, Tour Diaries |
Dateline: July 13, 2017 – Durian Adventure Hong Kong – Wan Chai – Hong Kong, China I don’t quite know how we do it, but whenever U.K. harpist ,Shelley Fairplay and I are together, we seem to get in some kind of trouble. I think it must be her...
Jul 12, 2017 | harp, Harping & Harpists, Harps, Performance, Tour Diaries |
July 12, 2017 – Hong Kong – World Harp Congress As harp players, we spend a lot of time thinking about transport. Stuffing harps into elevators, taxis, trunks, vans, station wagons. This particular elevator was a tiny one, a slow 14 floors, and it was the...
