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Powerful Quirky
This is a short interview with DHC and Carolyn Deal, creator of the NC in late October. This happened very last-minute and all the workshops are sold out but you can buy tix to the Oct. 26th show in Asheville, NC. DHC’s next teaching opportunities are online...![When “totally satisfied” isn’t enough](https://hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/140907-webinar-stillshot-1-300x169.jpg)
When “totally satisfied” isn’t enough
The people who get my weekly ezine are split between those who’ve never touched a harp, but who see me in concert, listen to my albums, watch me YouTube, saw me on PBS or heard me on the radio. The other group may have done all that – and they also play the harp. So...![What’s Back to School for YOU?](https://hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Steinert-hall-800px-2012_SteinertHall_BoylstonSt_Boston_Massachusetts_4689.jpg)
What’s Back to School for YOU?
It was an act of desperation – heading back to the classroom last night. I rode my bike down to the train station around 5pm, pulled it into the bike stable, crammed the lock through my helmet and headed into Boston on the T. I never like leaving my helmet...![Darth Vader & Doctor Who – get Married this Weekend](https://hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/fairplay-shelley-3strands-dhc-redo.jpg)
Darth Vader & Doctor Who – get Married this Weekend
This weekend, Darth Vader, Doctor Who & James Bond walk down the aisle together in harpist Shelley Fairplay’s new concert-show “The Three Strands,” on the Great Glasshouse Stage at the National Botanical Garden of Wales. It’s the official premier of Shelley’s new...HipHarp Toolkit: Latin Style! (Summer 2014)
Class has started! “Hip Harp Toolkit Latin-Style” course for harp players starts this week. Register the passionate musician, to create a repertoire of inventive, fun solo arrangements – specifically for your skill level … because you create them...Kicking & Screaming to Clarity
Clarity is beauty. And it’s sooooo hard to get there. I just spent two hours rewriting a welcome script for students to my like me, have trouble intuiting the cryptic online templates my shopping cart gives me. I bought a special URL, “DHC-TV.com” so people could...![Wanted: Guinea Pigs with Harps](https://hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/fish-harpist-ed-square-600p.jpg)
Wanted: Guinea Pigs with Harps
(Yeah, I know this is a fish, and not a guinea pig … but you gotta make the best of what you got, right?) Scientists aren’t the only ones to collaborate with guinea pigs, lab rats and fruit flies. But me, I need harpists. When I create something new I’m usually...![2014 is the Year of Baroque Flamenco](https://hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/rasmussen-laurie-tryptich.jpg)
2014 is the Year of Baroque Flamenco
I’ve been writing music like a mad-woman since I was 12, and a lot of the projects I’m currently working on are projects I started decades ago (yes … decades). And in 2014 I’m releasing a bunch of them. Publishing them. Putting them into the hands –...![My Students Rock!](https://hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/5-part-form-HHT-M10.jpg)