We couldn't help but notice singer/harpist Jeneve Rose Mitchell featured on this week's episode of "American Idol." Although the focus was clearly on Mitchell's voice and not her laid-back accompaniment, we still have to give her props for putting harp in the...
Harp Column wishes our harp friends around the world who celebrate a very Merry Christmas. Many thanks to Nicole Mueller for sharing her lovely arrangement of the classic Christmas song.
Joanna Newsom put the harp front and center during her Dec. 8 performance on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. Newsom performed "Leaving the City," a track from her new Divers album. Look for our review of the recording in the January-February 2016 issue of Harp...
You've never heard Bach like this—harpist Bridget Kibbey and mandolinist Avi Avital join creative forces to reimagine Bach's Sonata in E-Flat major in their new music video. We might be a little biased, but we think if old Johann Sebastian had heard the sound of this...
Lara Somogyi is back on YouTube with her new video Elastic Heart by Sia, part of her" Big Blue Sessions" project using Camac's Big Blue electroacoustic harp. You may recognize Lara from our See and Be Seen feature article the July-August issue of Harp Column, where we...
If we had known about Emilie Kahn a few month's ago, we surely would have included her in our July-August feature article See and Be Seen, about harpists who have become hits on YouTube. Since posting her YouTube performance covering Taylor Swift's "Style" on July 27,...
Today we're listening to Emmanuel Ceysson play Grandjany's "The Colorado Trail," in a Jan. 25 live performance in collaboration with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Ceysson is performing on his new signature red Lyon & Healy Salzedo model harp. Read more about it on...
For your St. Patrick's Day listening pleasure, the Irish Harp Orchestra performing in a concert from March, 2014. Enjoy!
Today on Harp Column—new video by Jana Bouskova! The Czech harpist has just uploaded her recent performance of the third movment (Rondo—Allegro agitato) from Boieldieu's Concert for Harp in C Major, performed with the Philharmonic Orchestra ZlÃn conducted by LeoÅ¡...
Elizabeth Hainen has unearthed this video of her 2007 performance of Caroline Lizotte's Raga with Judy Loman. The live concert took place at the Curtis Institute of Music as a benefit for Hainen's Lyra Society, and I had the pleasure of being in the audience! This was...
