Nearly every harpist knows the name “Sylvia Woods,” either from playing her arrangements or ordering harp gear from the Sylvia Woods Harp Center. We featured Sylvia on the cover of Harp Column back in 1998, and more recently she wrote a fascinating Sounding Board...
Scottish harp and fiddle duo Catriona McKay and Chris Stout have won a Herald Angel award at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival. McKay and Stout, who have worked together as a duo for almost 20 years and also appear together in the Shetland band Fiddlers’ Bid, won...
The Somerset Folk Harp Festival awarded Sam Milligan their third Lifetime Achievement Award on July 31. The honor was bestowed in recognition of "his efforts to expand the harp world with his pioneering harp books, his role as the first editor of the American Harp...
Mary Lattimore has been named a 2014 Pew Fellow by the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, an organization that awards grants in support of Philadelphia's arts and cultural community. She is one of 12 individuals chosen to receive a $60,000 2014 fellowship award. "I...
The Canada Council for the Arts announced Caroline Cole as the winner of its prestigious Virginia Parker Prize of $25,000. The prize—established in 1982—is awarded annually to a Canadian classical musician under the age of 32 who demonstrates outstanding talent and...
