The Somerset Folk Harp Festival in Parsippany, N.J., has announced the presenters for its 2024 edition. The festival will take place in person and online July 18–21, with an additional weekend of online workshops July 27–28. The early-bird registration rate is...
The Somerset Folk Harp Festival in Parsippany, N.J., has announced the presenters and workshops for its 2023 edition. The festival will take place in person and online July 20–23, with an additional weekend of online workshops July 29–30. Add-on events, available in...
The Somerset Folk Harp Festival has presented its 2021 Lifetime Achievement Award to Ann Heymann, a pioneer in the wire-strung harp revival. Heymann also received the Historical Harp Society of Ireland's Lifetime Achievement Award this year for her research on the...
Kim Robertson has been selected as the recipient of the 2019 Somerset Folk Harp Festival Lifetime Achievement Award. Celebrated for forging her own path as a folk harpist, Robertson is a diverse performer, arranger, and recording artist. "It’s an honor to receive an...
Jay Witcher recently received the 2018 Somerset Lifetime Achievement Award. Considered a “master harp builder,” Witcher is known for his role in reviving the folk harp community in the United States and influencing lever harp makers around the world. Initially an...
Scottish folk musician William Jackson was recognized with a Lifetime Achievement Award at this year's Somerset Folk Harp Festival (July 21-24, 2016) for his far-reaching impact on Scottish traditional music. Jackson not only set an example for how Scottish...
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...
