Dec 31, 2024 | Golden Cage Musical |
THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! To everyone who has supported this project, I can’t tell you how excited I am that we’re getting closer and closer to having a new LIVE performance score by arranger Tim Maurice. If you haven’t had a chance to donate...
Dec 30, 2024 | Collaboration, Composer, Harping & Harpists, Kindness, Projects |
BREAKING NEWS! Thanks to the Legacy Bridge Project and sponsor Dan Beach – “Baroque Flamenco” had its Ukranian Premiere — and its World Premiere on Bandura, a traditional Ukranian folk instrument. The soloist Iryna Lytvynenko adapted...
Dec 30, 2024 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning |
Last Monday I created a meditation as a year-end gift for members of Hip Harp Academy. My goal was to use music from “The Nightingale” with a text I wrote – and to play it in a way that would let them play along, not by ‘knowing’ what I...
Dec 19, 2024 | Events, Hip Harp Academy, Online Courses, Webinar Sign-Up Pages
“MEET YOUR MUSE” Register Now for the INSTANT REPLAY The LIVE training is over but you can get the replay HERE Register NOW to watch the Replay! Includes “Meet Your Muse” Guided Meditation Do you wish you had a MUSE? Someone who fills you with...
Dec 18, 2024 | Christmas-Hanuka-Kwanzaa |
The Holidays are upon us! I wish I could be with you around the table, or the fire, or the candles or the tree. But since I can’t, below are ways we CAN be together: my holiday collection of blogposts and some special offers for Harp players… Each year I...
Dec 18, 2024 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Creativity, Holidays |
In 2020, I admitted something to my students in Hip Harp Academy that I’ve never really liked the tune Silent Night. But I also told them that you could learn to love a song by really exploring it, and I started bragging that if I wanted to, I could make a...
Dec 18, 2024 | Holidays, Recordings
There are certain songs that bloom only in December, like my 15-year old Christmas Cactus plant does. You could play them in spring or summer, but you’d likely sound as out-of-season as a wool hat in a Florida July – except for “What Child is This?” which lives a...
Dec 18, 2024 | Christmas-Hanuka-Kwanzaa, I Remember..., Random Thoughts |
When I was 12 and living in North Carolina, I wanted to send my grandparents a Hannukah card. I’d never celebrated the holiday, since only half my family was Jewish and that half – my mother – was a big Christmas decoration fan. But I’d decided...
Dec 18, 2024 | Christmas-Hanuka-Kwanzaa, Composing |
I was talking with one of the artists I coach a few years ago, when she asked me if I’d ever considered playing a holiday program and I said sure, that I’d written two holiday suites I really love – for harp and string orchestra, called “Season...
Dec 18, 2024 | Christmas-Hanuka-Kwanzaa, Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, harp, Harping & Harpists |
Many years ago – before I had created my online “Hip Harp Academy” and my “Harness Your Muse” mentorship, the only way for people to study with me was to come live in my studio. It was a transformational mentorship experience with harpists from all around the world,...
