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Special Events Make This Year's Festival a Blast
by Kathy DeAngelo, Festival Director
I tend to think the whole festival is pretty special but if you're looking for even more reasons to justify the trek to Parsippany this summer, then consider all the special events we have planned. If a choice of 80-plus workshops isn't enough to thrill you or a major concert each day or visiting the Exhbitor and Vendor Mall between workshops for the best harp shopping you'll find anywhere, then consider some of the special events I'm listing on this page. |
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 Astral Harp Experience with Janet & Kevin Witman
Friday at 3:30pm.They'll give you the moon and the stars! Join harp ensemble director Janet Witman and her planetarium director husband Kevin for a concert and light show.. Kevin's galactic images with Janet's stellar playing of thematic music. Location: Morris 10
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 Renaissance Ball on Friday night
Friday at 9:30 p.m.
Join Nancy Hurrell, Ellen Tepper, and Cynthia Cathcart Friday night post-concert and learn branles, a pavane, canario and English country dances, all set to the live pick-up band. Spouses with other insturments are welcomed to join in. If you have a Renaissance costume, bring it. No problem if you don't. Don't want to dance? Just to enjoy the music and the fun. Location: Morris 11 |
 Angular harp in ancient and modern music
Saturday at 1:30pm. Tomoko Sugawara will play music spanning the last millennia on the ancient kugo as well as pieces recently composed. Bo Lawergren will give the historical of the instrument and the music. Location: Concert Hall |
 Historical Harp Listening Room
Saturday at 3:30pm. An unplugged concert with Cynthia Cathcart, Nancy Hurrell and Ellen Tepper are featured in this afternoon coffeehouse with music on wire harp, arpa doppia, Spanish harp and bray harp. Location: Morris 3 |
 Saturday Night Banquet
5:30-7pm.
Reserve your seat today for the Saturday Night Banquet with live harp music from Joanna Mell.
Your hosts for this evening will be Harper Tasche, Sunita Staneslow, and Nicolas Carter, who will each host a table of 7 attendees. Sit with them and enjoy conversation and a scrumptious meal. Tickets are $50 each and include taxes and gratuity. If you already signed up for the festival and didn't get a ticket, call Kathy at 856-795-7637 to add it to your order. In the Atrium. |
 The Carolan Marathon
Saturday at 9:30 p.m. Almost 200 pieces composed or attributed to the legendary blind harper bard Carolan survived. We won't get to play them all but we'll hit as many as we can! Gráinne Hambly will anchor this post-concert event on Saturday night. If you love the music of Carolan, come to this themed harpers' round-robin and join in. Many of the festival's presenters will be there. Come with sheet music or play by ear. Don't know any Carolan? Come to listen. Location: Morris 11
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Looped
Performance Art Event at the Sunday Concert
Marta Cook refuses to be contained, either literally or by genre or cultural expectation In this performance piece. Using found objects all around her (chairs, walls, and whatever is available), Marta takes her harp and and conjures up a child's curiosity of testing boundaries by climbing, dancing and exploring -- both physically and through her music. Performing for the sheer joy of performing. Marta will defy conventional notions about harp performances with her dazzling play. You won't want to miss this fun and unusual piece! Location: Concert Hall |
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Let's expand the harp community
Harp Groups and Harp Circles can lead a jam
If you're a member of a harp group or harp circle and you want to reach out to potentially new members while you're at Somerset, we're going to make it easier to connect. Contact Kathy to lead a "meet & greet" harp circle one of the evenings after the concert. We have plenty of space available for late-night jams and we'll get your group's jam listed in the daily schedule of events. We'd like to have the friendly and experienced players among you coax along the shy and less experienced harpers or newbies wanting to connect up with people from their area.
You Gotta Have Harp: Harp Pool Loaner Program Again
 Traveling by Plane or Train?
We have a number of generous vendors who are making a small number of small harps available at no cost for the temporarily harpless. So if you're coming to the festival by plane or train and can't bring your harp with you, we will have a harp pool available. Come to the registration desk and sign out a harp for the day.
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