Updates: Virtual and In Person Lessons, Performing, Celticharper Page

Harp and piano lessons are now available both online and in person as of 2020! I’m happy to use the platform of your choice, although I prefer Zoom due to the ability to fine-tune the sound quality for musicians. I’m also playing regularly again both solo and with various other musicians, so feel free to contact me if you have an upcoming event that would be enhanced by live music, either private or public. I’m also happy to lead workshops or group classes, provide musical tutoring, and help with arranging. I gained a lot of experience when I had students in the Kawartha Youth Orchestra tweaking orchestra parts for Celtic harp! I’ve also had decades of experience arranging music for large and small ensembles, from Classical to Celtic to pop and early/medieval music.

My ultimate goal is to gradually move all of the old celticharper.com pages to this site, but as you can likely tell from the last blog entry, life has a habit of getting in the way. In the meantime, just be aware that the celticharper.com site is a collection of archived pages at the moment, and not currently being updated, unless someone contacts me specifically to have a link removed.

Hope everyone is enjoying the last bright beautiful days of summer! Make music freely with abandon wherever you are, and remember, it’s never too late to regain your love of music, or learn a new instrument.

Polorum Regina: Testing out new recording set-up

Hello lonely blog! Wow, it’s really been nearly a year? Hopefully this is the first of many regular posts to come, in my quest to revive and update all things Celticharper during this time of being confined to home base. Been meaning to get myself in gear to properly start recording stuff for ages. This is a small test of the new system, as I (slowly) learn the ropes of how to use Audacity and all my various bits of recording equipment. Also still learning the ins and outs of Soundcloud and various other digital and interwebby things, so bear with me if something doesn’t work right, and please let me know in the comments if you notice a glitch! Polorum Regina is from the Medieval collection, the Llibre Vermell, and one of my favourite pieces to relax to.

Hardwood Cat at the Twisted Wheel on June 7th

On June 7th 2019, as part of the First Friday Art Crawl, Hardwood Cat will be joining other local musicians in celebrating the Women’s Quarterly Music Night, from 7-9pm.

We’ll be showcasing our unique mix of traditional Celtic, folk and original music, with Tanah Haney on harp, Jessica Lindeman on cello, Karina Bates on drum & recorder and Leigh Symonds on flute.

We’ll be sharing the stage with such notable local talents as Kerry McMaster, Hilary Dumoulin, Little Fire and guests. It should be a fabulous evening! To RSVP and for more details, you can visit the official Facebook event page.