Apr 17, 2020 | Hidden from Blog, Nightingale |
I was moved this week when I stumbled on a Facebook Post by harpists Lacey Lee, playing my song “The NIghtingale” so gorgeously – and dedicating it to a friend who can’t have visitors right now. Not only was it a beautiful performance, but it...
Apr 2, 2020 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Harping & Harpists, Hip Harp Academy |
3 months ago, a harpist named Roselyn contacted me about lessons. Here in the U.S. from South Korea, she’s been studying classical harp at Eastman School of Music, but wants to forge her own path, and she wants to do it with the “DHC Harp.” If you don’t know what the...
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...
Sep 29, 2019 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Harping & Harpists, Hip Harp Academy, [Class-HHT] Hip Harp Toolkit, [HHT] Hip Harp Toolkit Class |
So there I am – I’m at my first big harp gig in a fancy hotel. I’m subbing for the regular harpist. I’m in my early 20’s – I’ve only been playing about a year and a half. I literally only know four pieces – and the gig is 4 hours long. So I play...
![Finding Creative Freedom – One Pluck at a Time [Harpists Margi Miller & Sally Walstrum speak out in words and music]](https://hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/sally-walstrum-concert-blue-dhc-harp-library.jpg)
Sep 26, 2019 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Harping & Harpists, Hip Harp Academy |
Harpist Sally Walstrum and Margi Miller both started taking classes at Hip Harp Academy, my year-long training program for harpists – more than 3 years ago. They each came to the harp in very different ways with very different skills. Sally started the harp as a...
Sep 24, 2019 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Creativity, Harps, Holidays, Music |
We don’t even know that we’ve put them on… Creative handcuffs close slowly. Unnoticeable until they’re tight on our hands. They’re invisible. They’re inside us. What does it take to unlock them? For me … it takes PLAY. But what does that mean? Well,...
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 3, 2019 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Hip Harp Academy, Online Courses |
“Summer Harp Jam” is my 6-Week virtual summer camp that’s exclusively for harp players – lever or pedal, from fledgling to professional – and gives you a treasure chest of jams, vamps and play-alongs that strengthen your improvisation and rhythm skills while you’re...
Jul 1, 2019 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Online Courses |
“Summer Harp Jam 2019” starts July 22nd, 2019! “Summer Harp Jam” is like a 6-Week virtual summer camp for harp players – lever or pedal, from fledgling to professional. It gives you a treasure-chest of jams, vamps and play-alongs that strengthen your...
Jun 6, 2019 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Hip Harp Academy |
If you’re like me … some days you can see you’re hitting your mark – we call that ‘progress’ or ‘success.’ And some days you don’t. You feel like you’re slogging or stuck — or stuck slogging – and you’ve lost the thread of action. You don’t know...
