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Suspend Your Addiction to Learning
I opened my email inbox over the weekend and found this email from Susan Carol, a harpist who’d joined my new “3-Chord Magic” class – the first class in the “Sing & Play the Harp” Immersion Series at Hip Harp Academy. Susan and...![You Have a Voice](https://www.hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/youhaveavoice-screenshot-1080x675.jpg)
You Have a Voice
World Voice Day is April 16th. I originally wrote this show for the one-woman musical “What the Hell are you Doing in the Waiting Room for Heaven??” but now I sing it in concert and with harp ensembles as a spontaneous choral piece. In the musical, a little girl has...So Proud of the Half-Bakes
I was just texting to some colleagues in NYC and found myself writing: OMG – I’m so proud of the people in my Academy!!! They’re so brave and funny and committed, and willing and creative. And I just realized I should be sharing this is social media!!! I just...![It’s SPRING! So SING… with your Harp!](https://www.hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Alicia-Feel-supported-SPH-71859_1080x675.jpg)
It’s SPRING! So SING… with your Harp!
It’s Spring!!!! And I want to tell you what people are doing with my BRAND NEW “Sing & Play Harp” class called “3-Chord Magic”:- because it’s all about bringing new growth, a new sense of life, a lifting of the spirit that...![Danny Boy made me Waaaaay Insecure](https://hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/DannyBoy2019-Lever-Gumroad-Image-Square2.jpg)
Danny Boy made me Waaaaay Insecure
It started a few days before St. Patrick’s Day. I was co-working with my buddy, Mia (another creative entrepreneur) and I’d just gotten a copy of “Danny Boy” I’d arranged for an artist I mentor. I thought “I should share this with all harpists – not just my...![I’m so happy to see you!](https://www.hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/lurchi-salamander-you-are-cool-happy-1080x675.jpg)
I’m so happy to see you!
I was scrolling through LinkedIn, trying to be social when it hit me: I was seeing poses. Like animals, frozen in a pecking order, flaring out feathers, puffing out chests. And LinkedIn isn’t nearly as intense with that as other social media. And here’s me...![What’s the most powerful thing you learned as a child? Could you teach it?](https://www.hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/SPH-video-3CM-for-ezine-DHC_v2.jpg)
What’s the most powerful thing you learned as a child? Could you teach it?
What’s the one thing that opened the doorway to your life’s passion? Could you teach it to someone else? Sing & Play Harp - Learn More! You might have learned it in a few seconds, or a minute or ten minutes. The memory may be hazy. It may seem so...![sing and play – 3 chords is all it takes](https://www.hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/sing-and-play-on-street-onstage-notext-82693_1080x377.jpg)
sing and play – 3 chords is all it takes
It’s funny that in the past 5 years, as I’ve been creating an online Academy for harp players – specifically to teach arrangement and improv and creative expression – that I’ve never taught the art of singing and playing… Until this...![The Nightingale – Performances around the World](https://www.hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Screen-Shot-2019-03-01-at-4.24.33-PM.jpg)