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Gliding onto Stage
Years ago at the College of Marin, where I first got serious about learning harp, I took a Physical Education class from a teacher whose name I wish I could remember. She was talking about swimming when said that every activity has two parts: the effort and the...![Rockport Music Presents HipHarp at Shalin Liu](https://hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/tix_click_OFF_110p.jpg)
Rockport Music Presents HipHarp at Shalin Liu
=============== PRESS RELEASE – Run Through April 21, 2012 =============== Imagine a harp shrunk to the size of a crossbow. Brushed chrome, with 32 strings. A woman in a sleek black boustier straps it on, plugs it in like an electric guitar and pulls sounds from...![When Interviews Illuminate](https://hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/RWS-DHC-0262-ed-600x4642.jpg)
When Interviews Illuminate
I just read a press feature about this weekend’s show at Flagpole Radio Cafe in Newtown, CT, which came from an interview last week. Reading it, I marveled at how the writer, Susan Dunne of the Hartford Courant, was able to shape a 30-minute, wide-ranging...![We Want YOUR Harp Facts & Trivia!](https://hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/celtic-harp-shamrock-dhc-300x300.jpg)
We Want YOUR Harp Facts & Trivia!
This St. Patrick’s Day – March 17th – I’m playing a Celtic Celebration concert with the Southwest Michigan Symphony Orchestra. So, a couple weeks ago I was talking to Mayatu, the marketing director of the symphony and she said “You know what I’d love to do? A...![Maquettes – “Invention & Alchemy” in Miniature](https://hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/peter-and-dhc.jpg)
Maquettes – “Invention & Alchemy” in Miniature
It was a composer’s Cinderella story: a CD/DVD project with symphony orchestra and all my original music. 7 cameras, a director, designers, producer, Union negotiations, makeup artists … and did I mention the full symphony orchestra? The video would go...![BEARS in Boyertown!](https://hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/football-bear-boyertown-ss.jpg?w=194)
BEARS in Boyertown!
NOTES FROM TOUR: When I asked our host of last Tuesday’s Workshop, Betsy Chapman, what to expect in Boyertown, PA – and a little bit about Marianne, the owner of the beautiful Inn we’d be staying in, Betsy sent me this email. While I was there, I...![Lightning in your coffee?](https://hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/dhc-radio-betsy-chapman-text.jpg)
Lightning in your coffee?
I had a radio interview yesterday morning on WPAZ, Pennsylvania’s tiniest radio station (“with the biggest heart!”). The station had been struck by lightning the night before so they had to create an alternate tech set-up for my phone interview...![Why the HARP?](https://hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/danger-zone-no-mic-edit03083.jpg)
Why the HARP?
I got a set of questions from Betsy Chapman, who hosts “The Morning Show” on WPAZ, a tiny station (“with a big heart!”) in Pennsylvania. WPAZ is co-sponsoring my “Fireworks for the Creative Spirit” next week, so Betsy interviewed me...![StreetHarp – Morning Commute – May 3, 2011](https://hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/photo-jenfeller11-e1304443222547.jpg)