Nov 5, 2020 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Hip Harp Academy, Uncategorized |
Play the harp? Wanna be more creative? Liberate yourself from the notes on the page? Think you might want to play HOLIDAY MUSIC any time in the next two months? I created HOLIDAY Lead Sheet Bootcamp for YOU! Join me Nov. 18-21 for six play-along Immersion...
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 5, 2020 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Hip Harp Academy, Online Courses, Uncategorized |
Recently, Marie emailed me that she was interested in joining Hip Harp Academy but she wanted to know what actually happens – like, WHEN are the live class session, WHAT exactly do you learn, HOW MUCH TIME does it take and how does it all WORK? So I shared...
Jul 20, 2020 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Events, Online Courses |
HARPISTS! Supercharge Your Playing
Lead Sheet Bootcamp This Full-Day Virtual Workshop with Deborah Henson-Conant was recorded at the Online Somerset Harp Festival 2020. This One-Day Workshop is now a 3-Day Retreat! Join the “Lead Sheet Bootcamp” RETREAT...
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,...
