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Rockport Music Presents HipHarp at Shalin Liu
=============== PRESS RELEASE – Run Through April 21, 2012 =============== Imagine a harp shrunk to the size of a crossbow. Brushed chrome, with 32 strings. A woman in a sleek black boustier straps it on, plugs it in like an electric guitar and pulls sounds from...
Rockin’ at Martin Luther King Elementary
This week I visited Martin Luther King Elementary in Benton Harbor, MI. When we got to MLK, I set my harp and gear up in the center circle of the basketball court. That’s what that circle is for, isn’t it — it’s the electric harp circle, right? We added lights and...
We Want YOUR Harp Facts & Trivia!
This St. Patrick’s Day – March 17th – I’m playing a Celtic Celebration concert with the Southwest Michigan Symphony Orchestra. So, a couple weeks ago I was talking to Mayatu, the marketing director of the symphony and she said “You know what I’d love to do? A...
Maquettes – “Invention & Alchemy” in Miniature
It was a composer’s Cinderella story: a CD/DVD project with symphony orchestra and all my original music. 7 cameras, a director, designers, producer, Union negotiations, makeup artists … and did I mention the full symphony orchestra? The video would go...
BEARS in Boyertown!
NOTES FROM TOUR: When I asked our host of last Tuesday’s Workshop, Betsy Chapman, what to expect in Boyertown, PA – and a little bit about Marianne, the owner of the beautiful Inn we’d be staying in, Betsy sent me this email. While I was there, I...
Lightning in your coffee?
I had a radio interview yesterday morning on WPAZ, Pennsylvania’s tiniest radio station (“with the biggest heart!”). The station had been struck by lightning the night before so they had to create an alternate tech set-up for my phone interview...
Why the HARP?
I got a set of questions from Betsy Chapman, who hosts “The Morning Show” on WPAZ, a tiny station (“with a big heart!”) in Pennsylvania. WPAZ is co-sponsoring my “Fireworks for the Creative Spirit” next week, so Betsy interviewed me...
Sideways in Paimpol
Bonjour mes amis! I’m writing from France – in a tiny hotel room, in a small harbor town called Paimpol, which is on the coast of Brittany — which is the Celtic region of France. Here’s a 2-minute video of my first day in Paimpol (not to be...
Up at the Barn: 5-Day August Intensive in Maine
In two weeks I’ll be “Up at the Barn” teaching my 5-Day “Performance for Musicians” Intensive. There’s only two slots left, so if you’re on the fence, come on over! Here’s a video I made about the workshop. And...
