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![Strings of Passion LIVE Webshow: June 29, 2014](https://www.hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Jeila-Christina-BU-MythicWomen-Harp-Strings1.jpg)
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Why do we Show?
Why do we want to SHOW people what we do, what we love, what we create? Why do I want you to come to my show Saturday night in Rockport, MA? (Someone invented this building I’ll be playing in Saturday night. Someone made the blueprints. Someone hammered in the...![Why did it take so long?? A New Album unfolds.](https://imgssl.constantcontact.com/ui/images1/s.gif)
Why did it take so long?? A New Album unfolds.
I’m thrilled, excited, scared, nervous … I’m DOING it … And YOU’RE invited! Why did it take so long?? My last album was the work of a lifetime, a live album of my original works with symphony orchestra. It got a Grammy nomination for...![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 –...![The LAST Sale (and Signings!)](https://hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/kitchen-store-merch-table.jpg)
The LAST Sale (and Signings!)
For years my lovely assistant, Beatriz, has come to the office every week where she’s filled CD orders literally out of the office kitchen in the old house where our office lives … … and when people asked me to sign CDs or sheet music, here’s...![Louisiana Harp-Break with Strings of Passion](https://hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/strings-of-passion-new-orleans.jpg)
Louisiana Harp-Break with Strings of Passion
Hit it, boys! Let’s have a little Blues in C: I’m gonna Loooseeana, just to play my harp Oh, I’m gonna Loooooooseeana, just to play my old harp Gonna court my muse, gonna teach some Blues Loooseana here I come I’m headed to New Orleans for a tiny little festival...![The Moment I Became a Musician](https://hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/memoire-blog-image1-242x300.jpg)
The Moment I Became a Musician
There was a moment when I made the transition in my life from person-who’s-passionate-about-music to professional musician. It sits in a picture frame in my mind, the moment of realization. I lived, then, just north of Pt. Reyes Station, California – in an old...![How I learned the Physical Zoom](https://hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/facebook-comment-livestream2.jpg)