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July 29-Aug. 1, 2010

Parsippany, NJ

What's Happening:
	Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
Concerts
Workshops
Thursday Specials
	Lever Harp Teacher's Symposium
	Creative Marketing Strategies
	Celtic kick-off
Workshop Listings

	By title: A-D By title: E-K By title: L-O By title: P-S By title: T-Z
Workshop Focus Areas
Accompaniment & Arranging Beginners Body & Harp Business of Harping Celtic CEUs for MHTP Church Music Ensemble Historic Harp & Early Music Lectures Paraguayan Harp & Latin Music Skills & Technique Teaching Harp Therapeutic Harp
Schedule downloads (updated 7/21/10)
	Excel file
	PDF file

Other Great Stuff
	Astral Harp Experience
	The Carolan Marathon
	Harp Corral
	Harp Pool Loaner Program
	Harp Regulation
	Jams
	Friday Renaissance Ball
	Saturday Banquet
	Private Lessons?

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Workshops

We have over 80 workshops and classes from 27 presenters and our goal is to help you Narrow Your Focus or Expand Your Horizon.

Workshop Space: We're using all of the Morris rooms and Johnes. See the floorplan/ layout.

Workshop Times: Most of the workshops are 90 minutes. We have 3 main workshop periods on Friday and Saturday: 9:30-11am, 1:30-3pm and 3:30-5pm. (On Sunday the morning workshop starts at 9am.) There are mini-workshops scheduled in the 11am-1pm lunch break when we do things like the Harp Tastings and Do It Yourself Harp Maintenance.

How you get into a workshop: Except for theThursday workshops which require advance sign-up on the registration form, you can drop into any of the other workshops. We estimate how much space we need for each presenter and workshop and most of the time it all works out and there are seats and enough room for everybody. In consideration of others, please try to get to your workshop a few minutes early to give yourself time to get a seat and get settled.

HOW TO FIND WHAT YOU WANT: Peruse the navigation bar on the left to see how all this information is organized. Workshops are listed in alphabetical order by Title with their presenter and description. If you are looking for workshops by a particular presenter, choose Performers & Presenters on the top row navigation bar and look up the presenter. Their workshops will be listed under their bio.

Other tools: Under the Daily Schedule (on the left) we have a variety of downloadable tools to help you put your Somerset itinerary together. You can download an Excel file and then sort and sift this file any way you like: by day/time, by presenter, by workshop title. You choose. The PDF file is a static snapshot of our spreadsheet file that you can print, read, highlight offline. These files will be updated almost weekly as we hone in on the actual schedule and finetune the workshop selections.

Focus Areas: We aggregate some of the workshops into some topic-specific Focus Area pages. If you wanted to Narrow Your Focus on certain topics, we'll make it easy for you to find all the workshops related to Celtic, Historic, Paraguayan, Teaching and Business, plus many others. You'll find the Focus Areas on the left navigation bar under this Workshops tab. If you have Excel, the spreadsheet version of the workshop schedule will have columns for these topics so you can sort and filter by topic.

Workshop Guidelines

Levels: these are suggestions, not edicts. The presenter may have a target audience in mind but that doesn't mean you can't get in over your head. Likewise, something may be targeted to a Beginner, but if it's new to you and you're interested, take it!
Hands-on: this means you should bring a harp! If you don't have a harp, you can still sit in on the workshop and learn something.
Lectures/Musical lectures/Demos: no harp is needed. All lectures are open to registered non-harping companions.
Accessories: these are optional and suggestions from the presenter. Recording devices are permitted as noted, but these recordings are for your own personal use (in other words, don't post on the internet).
Etiquette: Turn off your cell phone or put it in vibrate mode. Do not talk on cell phones at all during the workshop. Arrive on time and be in tune. If you arrive late, come in quietly and without fanfare. If it's a hands-on workshop in progress, please take your harp out of the case outside of the workshop room to be less of a distraction.

Thursday Special Workshops! Reaching out to Teachers & Professionals
TEACHER'S SYMPOSIUM Check out the agenda for this all-day workshop. Thinking about teaching harp? Do you need some fresh ideas? Come & Learn what you need to know & do.	We know that it's not always possible if you're a teacher or a professional harpist to devote an entire weekend to a festival such as ours. So for the second consecutive year we have the Lever Harp Teacher's Symposium and a business seminar called Creative Marketing Strategies. Think of this as career enhancement! We're making it easy for you to take the day off. If you're coming for just the one day, use the single-day option on the registration form.	New in 2010: Business Seminar for Professional and Want-to-be Professional Harpists Creative Marketing Strategies

Getting Private Lessons

Many of our attendees would like to get in some private lesson time with their favorite presenters while they are at the festival. The cost is $65/hour and is paid directly to the artist at the time of the lesson. Lesson time/availability is strictly at the discretion of the artist. Put in a request by emailing Kathy with the name of the presenter and she will forward all requests.

Harp pool loaner program

If you are flying or coming by train to the festival and can't bring a harp, we will have a small pool of loaner harps available, which can be signed out for the day at the Registration Desk. Check the sign-out list at the Registration Desk by 9am. Email us so we know of your intentions to use the harp pool and can make plans to have enough harps available.

Want to make a harp available? If you would like to share your harp with a harp-less attendee, come to the Registration Desk and let us know what workshop period you won't need your harp and we'll arrange a hand-off time.

Harp Corral

What's this? You can temporarily park your harp in our Harp Corral, located next to the Registration Desk, while you have a meal or go shopping in the Vendor Mall. Space is limited so if you are a hotel guest and don't need your harp for an extended period of time, please park your harp in your hotel room. We do have harpers coming for the day who don't have that option. Harp Corral hours: 9am-9pm (no overnights!) You must pick up your harp at the end of the evening concert.

Workshop descriptions and schedules are subject to change.
Changes are posted as soon as possible. This page updated 6/17/10