Jan 12, 2021 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Hip Harp Academy |
The Hip Harp Academy students and I went on a Zoom Field Trip to the Celia Slattery Voice & Performance Studio. “A strong vocals 101 lesson with great warmups and education about where the voice comes from. Even with COPD, I could still sing and enjoy it. It...
Dec 17, 2020 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Final Beginning HHT Student Projects, Final Beginning Student Projects (All), Hip Harp Academy |
Welcome to the 2020 Hip Harp Academy Fall/Winter Video Projects! Check out the creativity and fun in all these video from harpists who just finished a class in arrangement and improv. Every one. ofthese players is committed to liberating themselves from the notes on...
Oct 9, 2020 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Final Beginning HHT Student Projects, Final Beginning Student Projects (All), Hip Harp Academy
I love sharing the amazing work of Hip Harp Academy students. In each class we follow a process of learning a structure, the skills that go with it, and then applying it to a project that you can actually use – like recording a video to celebrate a friend’s...
Oct 8, 2020 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Events, Online Courses
Today was so amazing! Hundreds of harpists are going through my brand new FREE Improv Challenge, and you can totally still get in. You don’t want to miss this! What people are saying… Sophie ~ “I loved going further in my attempts to play...
Oct 1, 2020 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Hip Harp Academy
I got so involved with planning the AMAZING Leadsheet Bootcamp, that I didn’t spend ANY time getting the word out that LAST WEEK was the first week of the Fall session at Hip Harp Academy! I do not want you to miss out on joining the Academy this Fall and I can...
Feb 4, 2020 | Events, Hip Harp Academy, Performing
So here’s what happened … Aside from playing to a completely full house on a Saturday night, and waking up to beautiful texts, emails and posts on Facebook about the show Sunday morning, I also got some wonderful photographs via text from a photographer...
Dec 17, 2019 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Final Beginning HHT Student Projects, Final Beginning Student Projects (All), Hip Harp Academy
Welcome to the Final-Beginning Projects from the 2019 “Hip Harp Toolkit” class at Hip Harp Academy. These are all Music Projects by students who just finished the 10-week class in arrangement and improv– harpists committed to liberating themselves from the...
Nov 1, 2019 | Birthdays, Harping & Harpists, Online Courses |
Every musician needs to know how to play “Happy Birthday.” What if you could play your OWN version without sheet music … and then SHARE it as a birthday greeting? My FREE “HaRpy Birthday” training shows you how to create your own version...
Sep 18, 2019 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Final Beginning Student Projects (All), Hip Harp Academy
I’m so happy to share some of the Final-Beginning Projects from this year’s “Summer Program” at Hip Harp Academy. These are all Music Projects by members of Hip Harp Academy – harpists committed to liberating themselves from the notes on the page and creating...
Jul 11, 2019 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Hip Harp Academy
You probably have something you do every day when you engage with the world, open to unexpected encounters. For some people it’s going to a coffee shop, a walk to work, a subway ride … For me – it’s running. I run nearly every day – and...
