The Edinburgh International Harp Festival will take place April 1–6, 2016. The annual harp event, now in its 35th year, takes place at Merchiston Castle School, in Edinburgh, and is sponsored by the The Clarsach Society. The full program will be announced in January....
The Boston Harp Festival has announced the lineup for their 2015 festival, which takes place September 25–27, 2015. The festival is hosted by The Boston Conservatory harp department—where Ina Zdorovetchi serves as Coordinator of Harp Program—and includes three days of...
Singer/songwriter/harpist Joanna Newsom, who we featured in 2007, has announced the release of her new album Divers on October 23. It has been five years since the release of Newsom's last recording, Have One on Me. The music on Divers is described as "a wheeling...
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,...
Lyon & Healy Harps has announced the appointment of Janet Harrell as Chief Executive Officer. Harrell returns to the company where from 1984 to 1999 she served as Controller, Vice President, and ultimately for 10 years, President. She has spent the last 15 years...
The World Harp Congress has chosen Cardiff as its 2020 international congress location. "The artistic committee looks forward to working together, with harpists from across the UK, to present a successful and inspiring Congress," said organizers on their Facebook...
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...
If you think Harp Column is just for pedal harpists, think again! This week we're at the Somerset Folk Harp Festival, in Parsippany, N.J., and when we realized how many former Harp Column cover models were here, we knew we just had to get them all together for a...
The USA International Harp Competition (IHC) has announced the dates for its 10th contest. The famed competition will take place a month earlier than usual, slated for June 8-18, 2016 in Bloomington, Ind. The USA IHC is held every three years on the campus of Indiana...
Anne Denholm is the new Royal Harpist to HRH the Prince of Wales. Denholm recently graduated with her master's degree from the Royal Academy of Music in London. She is the fifth harpist to be appointed to the post since it was reinstated in 2000. Prior to that the...
