Start your day early with a tai chi session. Chi king movements are very gentle slow moving exercises, which help create more chi (energy) and a smoother flow of chi with more blood flow in all the subtle connections within our body. While Western exercise helps to develop muscle and bone strength, Chi Kung aids tendons and ligaments in creating flexibility. Very useful for stress locked in the body, or patterns you are willing to help shift. Chi Kung helps by restoring wholeness, using as a daily discipline, more energy is achieved to create a harmony in your daily activities This is a mini-workshop running just 60 minutes.

Level: Any
Type: Hands-on
When: Fri & Sat. 8am
Where: Morris 6
Accessories:

The Taizé Community in the Burgundy region of France has produced a repertoire of simple, meditative worship music which transcends musical styles and has become popular in the United States. Explore the origins of the Community, its mission and worship practices, and take an in-depth look at the repertoire. Taizé music is ideal for use with the harp and other instruments and the current editions and arrangements will be examined.

Level: Any
Type: Hands-on
When: Sun. 9:00am
Where: Morris 2
Accessories: music stand

Disabilities can be obvious or not overtly visible. This seminar for harp teachers will focus on adapting a music plan to the student's needs and tailoring it to their strengths as a visual or aural learner. Determining the best harp and using notation methods including a No-C-Notes lesson demonstration and teaching by ear will all be discussed. Included in the handout will be references of supporting organizations.
Open to companions

Level: Any
Type: Lecture & Demo
When: Fri. 1:30pm 
Where: Morris 2

A therapeutic music “circle” where we can learn from each other by sharing the tunes that we play for our patients. This will be an extended workshop. Bring sheet music if you like. Target audience: therapeutic musicians (students and graduates of training programs).

Level: Any
Type: Hands-on
When: Fri. 3:30pm
Where: Symmes

At last year's festival Cynthia led the Historic Harp Track to the Library of Congress for a guided personalized tour of their early music collections. Join her for a recap in this year's "virtual" slideshow tour of these important works and their historical and musical context. This is an interactive addition to Cynthia's recent article on the tour for theFolk Harp Journal.
Open to companions.

Level: Any
Type: Lecture
When: Sun. 9:00am 
Where: Morris 3

Take the mystery and dread out of tuning. It shouldn't take forever to tune your harp. Ray will show you the efficient use of an electronic tuner to quickly get the best results. Tune quickly and accurately with a tuner, contact mike (which plugs into the tuner) and a music stand (if you've got one). This is for you if: 1) you have your very first harp; 2) have been playing for a while and now want to learn how to use an electronic device and to tune in E flat Major; 3) are teaching beginning students how to tune; or 4) have to tune your child's harp.You'll learn tuning in both C Major and E flat Major and find out which key works best for what purpose. You'll need to bring your own harp, an electronic tuning device, a contact microphone and a music stand.
Open to companions.

Level: Any
Type: Hands-on
When: Fri. 3:30pm
Where: Morris 11
Accessories: music stand, tuner with contact mike

If you are a therapeutic musician or harp therapist who likes to sing, but has not found a way to integrate your voice into your work with patients, Melinda will give you simple chants from different cultures in this workshop. Chants with meaningful lyrics that can provide a lovely vehicle for focusing your therapeutic intention, deepening intimacy and connection and facilitating healing. You'll learn how therapeutic singing differs from "performance" singing and how chants can be used to open up possibilities for improvisation on your instrument. Not a therapeutic musician yet? You can come to this workshop too.

Level: Any
Type: Hands-on
When: Sat. 9:30am
Where: Symmes

If you're playing in church or wanting to expand your church repertoire, you already know you'll need to play from lead sheets. Ray will step you through the process for learning to play hymns from a lead sheet and get you over the hump of what to do after you've played the first verse! Learn to go beyond the basic technique of simply doubling the chord inversions outlined by the melody. You'll get tips for adding more variety to verses with utility accompaniment patterns. This workshop is structured for experienced players who read music.

Level: Int-Adv
Type: Hands-on
When: Sat. 3:30pm
Where: Morris 3
Accessories: music stand

There are specific musical elements that give early music its distinctive sound and if you want to get that authentic sound, regardless of the type of harp you play, you'll attend this workshop with Cynthia and learn all about gapped or pentatonic scales. Find out how these scales influence the harmonic accompaniment too. Great workshop for lever-free harps and a must for beginning wire harpers.

Level: Any
Type: Hands-on
When: Sat. 9:30am 
Where: Morris 6

Whatever level you're harping at, rhythm is critical. Rhythm breathes life into our notes and is particularly crucial to an instrument such as the harp which has some harmonic limitations. Maeve will work on basic rhythm exercises and talk about techniques for practicing with the metranome. She will also go into syncopation, breaking it down and giving ideas of how to use syncopation to make arrangements and accompaniments more interesting.

Level: Any
Type: Hands-on
When: Fri. 9:30am
Where: Concert Hall

The traditional harp styles from Latin America are very rhythmic and exciting and use fun accompaniment patterns. You'll get the various unique rhythms, polyrhythms and syncopations of several countries and transform some well known melodies into habanera, salsa, cha-cha, meringue, conga, tango and more. Alfredo will teach you various ways of using octaves and chords for repetitive patterns while minimizing the effort to do it. Then you'll take these ideas to create your own rhythmic patterns for other music styles.
1 MHTP CEU

Level: Any
Type: Hands-on
When: Fri. 3:30pm
Where: Johnes
Accessories: your feet

So you want to be a wedding harpist! Margaret will cover the business of doing weddings--everything from A to Z. She'll cover ceremonies in churches and catering halls and what to expect for different denominations. Then there's cocktail hours, repertoire, sound systems and the list goes on. Be business savvy with marketing, contracts, retainers and insurance suggestions.
Open to companions

Level: Any
Type: Lecture
When: Fri. 3:30pm 
Where: Morris 10

Workshop descriptions and schedules are subject to change.
Changes are posted as soon as possible. This page updated 7/9/10