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All that Jazz Harp
This is an archive post ~ originally published Nov. 29, 2010 and updated in 2018 The international Jazz-Harp organization in Holland sent me a questionnaire as part of research to find out if harpists and jazz musicians support the idea of a formal Bachelor program...
Jazz Standards: If Only I had the KEY!
This is an archive post ~ originally published Feb. 25, 2015 and updated in 2018 When I got my first gig playing lush hotel lobby music with the strolling violins of “Danny Yale and the Regency Strings” I did not personally have to stroll. Nope, my job was to play...
In this room Heaven bloomed
This is an archive post ~ originally published Apr. 2, 2012 and updated in 2018 In my late teens, I was visiting Edith, my grandmother, in the San Joaquin valley where I stayed with her for part of every summer. She gave me her pincushion and a few spools of thread...
Everybody has a Voice
From the April 7, 2018 weekly Ezine Do you wonder sometimes, like I do, about where your own creative voice fits? And sometimes whether it does at all? If so, I want to tell you that your voice – no matter what it sounds like – is part of the rich ensemble...
Thank You Tacoma!
Last week I got back from Tacoma, WA where I had the joy of playing with the passionate (and sometimes unexpectedly comedic) musicians in Symphony Tacoma and their great new conductor conductor Sarah Ioannides – and to introduce the “Tacoma...
You Have a Voice
A few days ago I got a video from my performance last summer at a great little harp festival called “Somerset.” When I say, “little festival,” there are actually hundreds of people who attend Somerset Folk Harp Festival each year – harp players, spouses – and a big...
Playing in a Different Key … Adapting music for New Shows
Every time I do a show, I feel like it’s a new beginning because every time I’m adding, tweaking, changing, discovering, expanding, challenging. For my April 22nd Symphony Tacoma show “Earth Songs from the Harp” (INFO & TIX HERE!) I developed...
What Does it Take to Get on Stage?
I’m playing with Symphony Tacoma this Sun. Apr. 22 in a special Earth Day concert in Seattle-Tacoma and I just landed in the beautiful Northwest. But yesterday … Yesterday it took only one minute for my Uber driver to get to my house — barely enough...
Meet the HARP-Breakers with Symphony TACOMA!
Meet the Nine HARPISTS who will join me onstage with SYMPHONY TACOMA Sun., Apr. 22, 2018 ~ 2:30 pm Stella DeSantis • Clara Fredrickson Grace Gallo • Jessica Gallo Meg Mann • Naomi Maxwell • Martina Preston Cassie Reinbolt Turner • Abigail Wooster In...
