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Music, Dance, Opera, Harp & the Pig-Heaven of Collaboration on my Own Music
I’ve toured as a performing composer for years, but I’m always happiest when when I’m a guest artist in residence – for at least a few days so I get to really connect with other artists and performers. So my trip last week to Charlotte, NC, and...
Jamming Bluegrass with the Blue Ridge Xpress
When I was a kid, my mom played the ukulele and sang. My dad played the banjo … and sang. Don’t get me wrong – it wasn’t idyllic. They were divorced – I never saw them play music together – but playing and singing was a natural...
My bio for the Sensoria Festival program
On April 11th I’m performing at Sensoria: A Celebration of Literature & the Arts. I’m excited about this performance because of all the collaboration that’s developed around it. Why do I love that? It provides me a chance to collaborate, to engage with the...
Rollerskating to Championship with Baroque Flamenco
I absolutely love when I see people use my music in new and unusual ways. So I was thrilled to find this video on YouTube of Italian Roller-skating champion Paula Franschini winning a world competition in 2014 with her passionate roller-skate version of my...
Baroque Flamenco Extravaganza in Geneva
I love hearing about musicians using my music in creative ways – and Blandine Pigaglio, a harpist and teacher at the Conservatoire Populaire in Geneva has created an extravaganza around my “Baroque Flamenco” that she’s premiering next week....
How do you want to show up?
In a recent conversation with one of my coaches, she asked me: How do you want to show up? In the world. In your own life. How are you NOT showing up yet that you’d like to change? What’s are the REAL reasons you find that difficult? I was surprised at...Final BEGINNING Projects for Blues HarpStyle 2016
My Winter 2016 online course for harpists, “Blues HarpStyle” recently ended. In this session of Blues HarpStyle, 11 of the students in the course created Blues videos to complete the course. There is a link each of these student videos at the bottom of...
NEW! Jazz Harp Masterclass Intensive
This weekend, my studio will resound with multi-harp Jazz, as 3 advanced harp players arrive for my first jazz-harp masterclass intensive – direct from my studio. Two of the students, Shelley Fairplay and Nicole Mueller, both from Europe, are in my year-long...
What Jazz IS to me…
Harpists have been asking me to teach jazz harp for years. But every time I took students, I realized they were missing some fundamentals about music. [FREE Jazzy Stuff & other useful Links at the bottom of the page!] For me, jazz is built on those fundamentals,...
