{"id":18587,"date":"2017-10-30T06:00:53","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T10:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harpcolumnmusic.com\/?p=18587"},"modified":"2017-11-01T09:29:29","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T13:29:29","slug":"holiday-harping-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harpcolumn.com\/music\/holiday-harping-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiday Harping Tips!"},"content":{"rendered":"

We asked HCM artist’s to share their best tips for getting through the busy days ahead.<\/h3>\n

Are you ready for the holidays? You’re a harpist so of course you are! But hey, we all know it can be hard to keep a positive outlook all season long. We asked HCM artists to give us their best tips for surviving the #holidayharping season. Plus, we know you’ll want to check out their great holiday arrangements to update your holiday rep.<\/p>\n\n\t

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<\/b>Stephanie Claussen<\/span><\/b><\/h3><\/div>\n

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“Portable Food! Every year, by\u00a0<\/span>Christmas Eve I never want to see another granola bar again. Last year I had the idea of assembling a stash of easy-to-grab and appetizing (non-granola bar) snacks to toss into my gig bag on my way out the door.<\/span> These included applesauce packs (the squeeze kind), trail mix, string cheese, Craisins, and Babybel cheese wheels. I also discovered I could leave my bench in the car the entire month, and use a similar bench in my practice room, thereby saving dozens of trips back and forth from the car.”<\/span><\/p>\n

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“I’m hoping that harpists searching for moody, intricate, ancient-sounding arrangements of Christmas carols will discover that this is precisely the book to spice up their Decembers,” says Stephanie.<\/p>\n

Check out Stephanie’s Light So Brilliant<\/a> collection, reviewed in the September-October issue of Harp Colum<\/em>n.”<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n