Our Monday Melodies with Melody’s April 15 edition features Darhon Rees-Rohrbacher of Dragonflower Music. In her video, you’ll hear about Wales, the history of the dragon on the country’s flag, and more. The Welsh flag is outstanding, for sure. The Lively Bard (Jones) INTERMEDIATE, ALL HARPS  Twenty Up-Tempo Arrangements of Welsh Airs, based on collected tunes of Edward Jones, Harper to King George IV. For flute or violin with lever harp accompaniment. Guitar chords included. Old Welsh Airs INTERMEDIATE, ALL HARPS A collection of 15 Welsh folk airs for lev ..read more

  Webinar Reminder/Monday Melodies   Monday Melodies With Melody’s   April 1, 2024 Bonnie Goodrich plays today’s Monday Melodies with Melody’s. Enjoy “The Selkie” from Kim Robertson’s book Highland Heart Click HERE to find “Highland Heart” on the Melody’s Website (FolkHarp.com). The arrangements in this book include the complete tracks from the recording “Highland Heart” (GOURD), featuring classic Scottish and I ..read more

Join esteemed educators Robbin Gordon-Cartier and Anna Dunwoodie as they share favorite teaching pieces.  Hosted by Kimberly Snaufer DeRosa and Therese Honey, further contributions by Mary Radspinner. Interactive sharing during this webinar – we want to know your favorite teaching pieces!  Please also bring your ideas to share.  Register for this free event HERE.   Websites: Robbin Gordon-Cartier | Anna Dunwoodie | Kimberly Snaufer DeRosa  Therese Honey | Mary Radspinner The post Repertoire Favorites with Teaching Tips appeared first on Folk Ha ..read more

Join us for a talk about playing Bach’s music on the harp. Dr. Laura Sherman has been assembling a new collection that includes four pieces for beginner to intermediate. She will go over some excerpts and talk about how to approach them.  Register HERE The post Bach for Beginner and Intermediate Levels appeared first on Folk Harp ..read more

CHARLOTTE P. MIZENER Charlotte Mizener is a retired professor of music education at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas. She received the Bachelor of Music- Music Education degree and Master of Music in harp performance degree from the University of North Texas and the PhD in music education from the University of Texas at Austin. Charlotte started studying harp at the age of 11 and has had many fine teachers from whom to gather tips, tricks, and tools for developing playing technique. Throughout her public school and college teaching career, she has continued to perform and teach harp. Mar ..read more

Register for “Building a Harp Camp Program” HERE We are very happy and excited to announce the continuation of our educational webinars.  We’ve been offering practical meetings online for close to 4 years now.  Replays on most are available at this LINK. Even more special, we are honored to have Therese Honey and Kimberly Snaufer DeRosa host our meetings.  Therese Honey is an early music and Celtic music specialist who is equally comfortable on pedal harp, early harps, and Celtic/Irish harps.  She has many CDs to her name, and her website is https://www.therese-honey.com ..read more

“Discover the Blues: Harp Mastery Workshop” – 8 Weeks in February and March 2024 Workshop Facilitator:  Cymber Lily Quinn Unleash the soulful melodies of the blues on your harp with our exclusive “Discover the Blues: Harp Mastery Workshop.” This immersive course is your ticket to unlocking the secrets of this iconic musical genre. This course is inspired by the renowned book, “How to Play Blues on the Harp” by I. Mac Perry, celebrated by Melody’s Music/Afghan Press. Mary Radspinner at Afghan Press says: “Mr. Perry had a masters in divinity, wrote books, cooked, gardened (BS in Horticultu ..read more

All About Strings We have been supplying Bow Brand strings for many years at Melody’s. Located in Norfolk, England their motto is “The Sound of Tradition”. You may have noticed new packaging. Quoting from a recent brochure sent to us: “Today more than ever before the importance of looking after the world’s finite resources and reducing the footprint we leave behind is at the forefront of minds. To adhere to our social responsibilities, we have redesigned our packaging using recycled paper making our gut strings completely biodegradable – even the stickers we use to seal the envelopes are bio ..read more

This post was written by Mary Muckle, and placed into the blog by Mary Radspinner.  From Mary Muckle:  I grew up in a rural farming area outside of the then very small town of Whitby, Ontario, Canada. My first instrument was the piano, taught by Elaine Broughton the organist at our local church. Her passion, not unusual in an organist, was for the Baroque, so that from the beginning I had a firm foundation in contrapuntal music. Much later this foundation was useful to me in arranging ensembles for my harp students. In duets, especially, I wanted both harp parts to be melodically ..read more

Advent Music Advent is a time of expectation.  It’s really a magical time of year when the nights are long, there is a chill in the air, and people are looking forward to friendship and holiday celebrations.  The music of Advent, also, has a special feel to it.  We have discovered a treasure of Advent music arranged for the harp in one book: A Hymn a Day Volume IV This book is arranged by Hugh Callison, and is one of five volumes.  Volume IV contains hymns for  Thanksgiving, Advent, Christmas, Epiphany and Ordinary Time. In particular, the Advent Hymn titles are: Har ..read more