Just in time for St. Patrick’s Day, we are thrilled to welcome two new Celtic-inspired lever-harp artists to Harp Column Music! Both need no introduction, but we’re going to tell you a little bit about them anyway…<\/p>\n
First up\u2014coming to you straight from County Mayo in the West of Ireland\u2014is Gr\u00e1inne Hambly<\/a>, a specialist in Irish traditional music.\u00a0Gr\u00e1inne started on the tin whistle before moving on to the concertina and then the harp. She encourages aspiring Irish harpers to learn in the traditional aural tradition of playing by ear, so you might be wondering why we’re selling her sheet music here. The music “provides an example of how these tunes could be played and arranged,” she says. “It’s intended as a support for learning in the Irish aural tradition.” We are thrilled to let you know that Gr\u00e1inne is a master teacher at Harp Column Academy<\/a>, where she explains and performs different traditional Irish techniques and repertoire so you\u00a0can\u00a0<\/em>learn in the aural tradition! We’ll be adding all these tunes and more to Gr\u00e1inne’s Harp Column Academy studio<\/a> in the coming weeks. Here’s a snippet of what you can expect:<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n\t Listen to a snippet of Gr\u00e1inne\u2019s lesson on \u201cA Fig for a Kiss\u201d from her studio at Harp Column Academy<\/p>\n“A Fig for a Kiss” excerpt<\/h3>\n