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, 2019 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, harp, Harping & Harpists |
(Dec. 2020 – A note from DHC – Some of these programs may be limited due to Covid. Please reach out if you’d like more details through the ask-a-question from HERE) Many years ago – before I had created my online “Hip Harp Academy” and my...
Apr 15, 2019 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Hip Harp Academy, Online Courses |
“People have to sing.” That’s what my grandmother Edith said. “They have to eat their vegetables. They have to know they’re useful. And they have to sing. And someone’s got to keep them together. That’s me. That’s why I...
Apr 9, 2019 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Hip Harp Academy, Online Courses |
I opened my email inbox over the weekend and found this email from Susan Carol, a harpist who’d joined my new “3-Chord Magic” class – the first class in the “Sing & Play the Harp” Immersion Series at Hip Harp Academy. Susan and...
Jan 20, 2019 | Creativity, Online Courses, [Class-SOP] Strings of Passion |
This is an archive post ~ originally published Feb. 2, 2017 and updated in 2019 My 10-week program about creative expression, “Strings of Passion,” just started and still open for 2019 registration! I find myself so moved by what the members share about...
Apr 11, 2018 | Blues, Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Harping & Harpists |
This is an archive post ~ originally published Jan. 3, 2016 and updated in 2018 Would you read every word from a script if you were pouring your heart out to your best friend? No? Then why read every single note when you’re trying to express yourself on the harp? As a...
Oct 25, 2017 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning |
I am personally an online-course junkie. I almost always take classes at least twice and I always try to find an Action-Buddy to work through the class with me. Now that I have my OWN online Academy for harp players, and as we begin the SECOND year of the Academy,...
Oct 25, 2017 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Composing, Events, Uncategorized |
I’m in the middle of a 30-day challenge to show up LIVE on Facebook every day – and to my delight, people email me their takeaways from those sessions. Thank you so much to the anonymous emailer who emailed me this one! It started when Clarice wrote in the...
Feb 24, 2017 | Guest Blogger |
Katya Herman was one of the first harpists in my “Harness Your Muse” program – before the program had a name, back when it was more like a 1-on-1 artistic apprenticeship. Katya simply flew to Boston and lived in a room off my studio for 6 months,...
Dec 24, 2016 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Final Beginning HHT Student Projects, Final Beginning Student Projects (All), Harping & Harpists, Online Courses |
Enjoy this special holiday gift from my students and me. This is Meredith’s “Final-Beginning” project from Fall 2016 Hip Harp Toolkit course at http://www.HipHarpAcademy.com. The project was to create a Holiday Greeting with Harp – and the goal was...
