Here's a great opportunity to prepare for your exams, or just improve the fun and learning at your instrument. Brenda is a wonderful teacher - classes are in Mill Bay. Here is what she sent me:

Go beyond the…

The Lanterns for Peace event, hosted by the Nanaimo chapter of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, was held Tuesday night at Maffeo Sutton Park. Our own Eleanor Sinclair played harp for the event, and her "soundtrack" was…

Adam Cole is a musician and teacher of both music and feldenkrais lessons. He was interviewed for a "thrive global" series about mental health earlier this month. He said, in part of the interview:

"Musicians, whether they have a…

Trying to gather up all the tuning videos in one place. Most of these are most applicable to new harpists, or those with new harps, but the troubleshooting one may be of interest - well, I hope in all of…

nice article about Lyon and Healy and the making of their pedal harp

http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/May-2019/The-Chicago-Harp-That-Rules-the-World/shttp://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/May-2019/The-Chicago-Harp-That-Rules-the-World/

July 11 - 13th for two sets of lessons, one for adults (mornings) and one for teens and youth (afternoons). Here's what she says about the classes. Registration is on the workshops page where you can register as well…

Happily we shall have Tristan Le Govic here on his way to Wells in August. He will play a concert at 7 pm, St. Peter Anglican Church, Wednesday August 14th. Tickets are on the calendar listing - $20 each Bring…

Yes, crazy as it is, I'm prepping for the fall. As I may have told you, I resolved to make this a Christmas year, and do a big concert on Dec. 22 with all the adult harpers and some…

harp and guitar

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corda celesti mvt 2

there apparently is more - I'm on the you tube trail

There is a nice article I just read from a small paper in San Diego near where Phyllis Robinson lives.  She and her husband were hugely important in getting the California harp scene happening in the 70's and she still…

since I didn't see you on the day, here is my poem for this year:

Jazz (A Variation) 

by Lorie Miseck 

A minor key swings open the blue door 
of the heart.  Brassed and unhinged 
sound unwinds.…

What a great week  - here we are thinking about the skeleton and how it relates to support through the feet for playing or singing. More lessons coming in July - stayed tuned, watch you newsletter for more info. If…

Of course she is no stranger to those who've stayed at the Hub Motel in Wells while they've attended the harp school, but she is anonymous in this story from CBC a couple of weeks ago:

CBC Radio…

This has knocked me off my feet. A video from Paris compiled from footage shot from 1896 - 1900 by the Lumiere brothers who were by and large the inventors of the moving picture (and their last names WERE Lumiere!)…

WORKSHOP FOR MUSICIANS 2019 

“Improvement of talented people comes through their awareness of themselves in action. Their talent arises from their freedom to choose their modes of action.” (Moshé Feldenkrais) 

An Introduction to Feldenkrais for Musicians 

I'm…

Waly is Scottish for Wail, and the long history of this song would make most scholars wail! But Jürgen Kloss, a folklorist from Bonn, Germany has really done it here: http://www.justanothertune.com/html/wateriswide.html

It's a loooooong read, and mostly about the…

As many of you know I'm pretty obsessed with the search for a great tuner. For a while I very happily recommended the Intelli MT500 which is the main tuner I use, having bought up all the ones left in…

info and tickets www.westcoastharpsociety.org

2019 - hard to believe... but we've made it more or less intact and I hope you're all ready to launch back into lessons or whatever your harp direction takes you. 

Coming up this spring: Sivan Magen in Vancouver…