Oct 15, 2014 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Harping & Harpists |
Sun. Oct. 19, 2014 • 1:00 – 3:00 pm Pacific Harps • Pasadena, CA 922 N. Craig Ave, Pasadena, CA 91104 Hands-On Workshop $50 (Use discount code “CAMAC” for $10 off!) Come for the workshop – then stay for the VIP Reception and Salon Concert! >>...
Oct 14, 2014 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Harping & Harpists, Online Courses |
My love affair with web-broadcasting started as soon as I new it was possible. Using my studio as a TV studio fulfills dreams I’ve had since I was a kid! Dreams of having a theater in my basement, a TV show right outside my kitchen! Broadcasting solo from my own...
Oct 5, 2014 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Harping & Harpists |
As I gear up for the next session of my online course “Hip Harp Toolkit” (starting Oct. 21st), I get a lot of questions via my “Ask a Question” link from people interested in the course. This particular course focuses on Holiday music as a way...
Oct 4, 2014 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Harping & Harpists |
As I gear up for the next session of my online course “Hip Harp Toolkit” which starts Oct. 21st, I’ve been getting a lot of questions — and decided to post some of them here. Here’s one I got this morning: Question I play for hospital...
Sep 30, 2014 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Interviews |
This is a short interview with DHC and Carolyn Deal, creator of the NC in late October. This happened very last-minute and all the workshops are sold out but you can buy tix to the Oct. 26th show in Asheville, NC. DHC’s next teaching opportunities are online...
Sep 24, 2014 | Baroque Flamenco, Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Composing, Creativity, Harping & Harpists, Harps |
I always get excited whenever someone says “I have a dumb question” and this one came from Faye, a student in my “Baroque Flamenco Bootcamp” online course where harp players learn to play a dramatic showpiece of mine called “Baroque Flamenco.” She wrote:...
Sep 21, 2014 | Random Thoughts |
I’ve been thinking lately that plaque, or dust, is a phenomenon that happens in many places: on furniture, on our teeth, in our arteries. I know I could learn how to avoid it or remove it or reduce it or manage it, but right now I’m interested in the fact...
Sep 9, 2014 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Online Courses |
The people who get my weekly ezine are split between those who’ve never touched a harp, but who see me in concert, listen to my albums, watch me YouTube, saw me on PBS or heard me on the radio. The other group may have done all that – and they also play the harp. So...
Sep 3, 2014 | Inside Look, Random Thoughts |
This post instigated by a 3-hour she has shiny boots.” My boots have become my hair. I didn’t realize that was happening. I thought that my hair was the only cool thing I would ever have, and when I cut it off, I thought my days of people walking up to me and...
Sep 3, 2014 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Creativity |
It was an act of desperation – heading back to the classroom last night. I rode my bike down to the train station around 5pm, pulled it into the bike stable, crammed the lock through my helmet and headed into Boston on the T. I never like leaving my helmet...
