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Let’s do it AGAIN! (12 Reasons Students Renew Membership in Hip Harp Academy)
I am personally an online-course junkie. I almost always take classes at least twice and I always try to find an Action-Buddy to work through the class with me. Now that I have my OWN online Academy for harp players, and as we begin the SECOND year of the Academy,...
Yeah … what SHE said (Student Quotes from Hip Harp Academy)
If you DON’T play the harp – don’t read this. IF YOU DO play harp – and you want to claim your creative freedom and get the skills and inspiration you need … read it all! I’m a composer, performer and mentor — as a mentor...
A Big Beautiful Creation
I’m in the middle of a 30-day challenge to show up LIVE on Facebook every day – and to my delight, people email me their takeaways from those sessions. Thank you so much to the anonymous emailer who emailed me this one! It started when Clarice wrote in the...
FREE DHC! A Week of Free!
HARP PLAYERS! To get you warmed up for “Hip Harp Toolkit” we’ve created a WEEK of Freebies – from one-page blueprints to free video trainings … Each day we will share a new FREEBIE to celebrate the WEEK of FREE DHC! Here they are, and...
30-Days of Facebook Live
We’re all shy in different ways, even those of us who can seem bombastic. Me, I can go into a small panic attack when I haven’t posted on Facebook for a week and I know I need to. And I KNOW that the best way to get comfortable with something is to do it...
10,000 Fans on Facebook
Wooohooo! I just passed 10,000 Fans on Facebook. So, why is this important? Well, really anything we do that helps us see our connection with ourselves and with the world is important. And for me, putting a human face on something that can seem to be based on...
I should LOWER my expectations???
Right now, students in my “Baroque Flamenco Beyond the Page” class are about to submit their Final (Beginning) Projects. I call them “Final (Beginning)” projects because I like students to realize that they’re not the end of their...How to get a “Handel” on Arrangement
When I was first creating my foundational online program “Hip Harp Toolkit” I got an emergency arrangement question that confirmed just how important this class is for harp players! A harpist I’d never met emailed me in desperation. He had to play...
Do you read me?? What is readability?
After spending the last 3 years editing and updating my musical “The Golden Cage,” music director Tim Maurice and I are diving into the process of editing another musical of mine, “The Zero Club.” It’s a musical about a troupe of anti-nuclear guerrilla-theater...
