Jun 14, 2017 | Holidays |
About five years before he died, I asked my Dad if he’d make a recording for me of the songs I heard him sing when I was a kid. Did he just make a recording? No. He sat down and filled two sides of a cassette with the story of his life and all the songs in it. It...
Jun 7, 2017 | Tour Diaries, Travel |
Every time I get on a plane with my harp, suitcase and carryon, it’s a technological triumph for me. When I started touring over 20 years ago, I struggled to find ways to get an electric concert harp where I needed it to go. I tried borrowing concert harps...
May 26, 2017 | Events, Performance, Tour Diaries, Travel |
I arrived in Norfolk late Wednesday night and spent the day yesterday practicing, foraging for food, fixing my harp harness and exploring Norfolk. I like arriving a day early before shows so I can get a sense of a town, meet people, find a health food store...
May 12, 2017 | Events, Harping & Harpists, Interviews |
The 2017 International Harp Festival (IHF) will once again be held at the beautiful San Damiano Retreat Center with the mission to educate, inspire, and connect harpists from around the globe. Along with many workshops for harpists, there will also be nightly concerts...
May 10, 2017 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Final Beginning Blues Harpstyle Student Projects (BHS3), Final Beginning Student Projects (All), Harping & Harpists |
At the end of my online course for harpists, “Blues HarpStyle” I invite everyone in the course to share a Final “Beginning” project – their own Blues on harp. In 2015, 21 of the 50 people in the course created Blues videos to complete the...
May 10, 2017 | Events, Performance |
The 2017 International Harp Festival (IHF) will once again be held at the beautiful San Damiano Retreat Center with the mission to educate, inspire, and connect harpists from around the globe. Along with many workshops for harpists, there will also be nightly...
May 9, 2017 | Composing, harp, Harping & Harpists, Harps |
Composer’s Spotlight Series: Agna Eglite’s Kokle Ensemble plays ‘New Blues’ More and more these days, Google Alerts drops a video gift into my inbox of someone performing one of my pieces. Today I was floored by an arrangement of my “New Blues” the...
May 6, 2017 | Blues, harp, Harping & Harpists, Harps |
This is an archive post ~ originally published May. 6, 2017 and updated in 2018 What if there was a language you could learn that let you speak – and listen – fluently with anyone in the world, regardless of their language? “Lingua Franca ~ ˌliNGɡwə...
