As a child, it is not surprising how much of the learning process focuses on a particular sense. My youngest daughter takes part in a weekly science online class, (the brilliant Little Steamers STEM class with Laura), and she always begins by warming up her senses; ‘feeling fingers’, etc....
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‘It is a truth universally acknowledged that’ the harp has always been associated, symbolically with angels and higher realms, (King David in the Bible for example.) However, recently, It has come to my attention how the film and television industry actually provides us with subtle metaphoric language just by...
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Traipsing in to the Trinity College practice rooms, in the beautiful and inspiring Naval College on the bank of the Thames, wearing my coolest pair of brown suede, platform boots, eyebrows were raised and I found myself consequently taking in a spare pair of heeled shoes for harp lessons....
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There is no doubt that when you are a harpist, you get to visit and play in some beautiful and, more often than not, historic buildings and grounds. As I sat playing for a midweek wedding today at the intimate and somewhat secret venue, The Reading Rooms in Alby,...
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As the rain ‘pitter-pattered’ down, and the wind played with everybody’s hair and hats around me, I joined the undeterred harpists of the World, as I wrestled my harp, (Arabella), out of the boot of my car, on to the trolley and wheeled it into the huge church of...
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After two two years of Covid restrictions and having babies ,(obviously they are both already showing a love of music, and the harp!), I am delighted to start up again my SugarBeats ensemble. Although it may be slightly a smaller group to begin with, our aim is to post...
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When my two young daughter’s received a book as a gift from friends, I was delighted to be introduced to Dan Brown’s musical talents. Wild Symphony was written by the author of The Da Vinci Code, and is quite frankly, beautiful and extremely different to his adult fiction! As...
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