We have a huge emphasis this year on Historic Harp, thanks in part to our collaboration with the Historical Harp Society of Ireland to host the first day of their Festival of Early Irish Harp as a Sunday Add-on. Whether you want to take a trip to China and learn Ancient Chinese Music with Tomoko Sugawara or go to Ireland to learn about Feminist Harpers of the 19th century with Nancy Hurrell, we're covering many facets of early music and early harp. We've even finally added a workshop on playing the lyre! Workshops that are part of the Festival of Early Irish Harp, a Sunday Add-on, are marked with HHSI.
The Historic Harp list below is sorted alphabetically by title and we've marked how the workshop is presented: whether it's Live on Zoom during festival weekend or whether it's a Video (from 2021) or in our Archive (2020). We'll have about 50 "Live" workshops and events during festival weekend so don't worry if you miss one or there are 2 workshops on at the same time that you want to go to. We're recording them and will post them on the workshop pages on Somerset Online, soon after the festival. All of the "live" workshops will be held on Zoom. All times are noted in Eastern Time. Adjust for your time zone. If the workshop is marked as "Archive" you have to have bought access to this content. You can add Archive access before the festival. You can also add the Festival of Early Irish Harp, either the Sunday or the entire 5-day festival at a discount, at any time.
Updated 3/4/21
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