Jul 5, 2018 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Holidays |
If you’re in the USA today’s the day after Independence Day. The fireworks and the Barbecues are over – but 240+ years ago, today was still just the beginning. The day we call “Independence Day” was more than a year after the first shots...
Jul 5, 2018 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning |
Sun. July 8th I have a free Webinar for Harp Players called “Play with Freedom” Register for FREE here (Registration includes a replay link) We often think of creative freedom as complete independence, marching to our own drummer (who is, supposedly, us?)....
Jul 4, 2018 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning |
Have you been thinking about freedom? I have. It’s what my July 8th online event for harp players, “Play with Freedom” is all about and it’s what I think about a lot. I’ve been thinking about what it takes to ‘be free’ and how...
Jul 3, 2018 | Events, Hip Harp Academy, Online Courses
Recorded Sun. July 8 at 2:30 pm EDT Register NOW for the FREE WEBINAR! Register For Instant Replay Now Registration includes a replay link if you can’t make it there live What if you discovered that FOUR SIMPLE CHORDS could set you free? What if they were your...
Jun 8, 2018 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Online Courses
Is Jazz a STYLE of music? A WAY of playing? A way of thinking? An analogy for life? That’s part of what I talk about in a free webinar called “What is Jazz? (and why play it on a harp??).” You can click the link to watch the replay! “What is Jazz” is a...
May 29, 2018 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Online Courses
If you play the harp, I want you to know about Jazz for Harps. If you don’t play the harp, you might be interested in reading about how jazz works. “Jazz for Harps” is a brand new program – and before I tell you exactly what’s in the program...
May 17, 2018 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Jazz Harp, Performance |
This is an archive post ~ originally published Nov. 29, 2010 and updated in 2018 The international Jazz-Harp organization in Holland sent me a questionnaire as part of research to find out if harpists and jazz musicians support the idea of a formal Bachelor program...
May 15, 2018 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Jazz Harp |
This is an archive post ~ originally published Feb. 25, 2015 and updated in 2018 When I got my first gig playing lush hotel lobby music with the strolling violins of “Danny Yale and the Regency Strings” I did not personally have to stroll. Nope, my job was to play...
May 11, 2018 | Mom, Recordings |
This is an archive post ~ originally published Apr. 2, 2012 and updated in 2018 In my late teens, I was visiting Edith, my grandmother, in the San Joaquin valley where I stayed with her for part of every summer. She gave me her pincushion and a few spools of thread...
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...
