Join us ONLINE, Sunday 22 September, 4–6 pm, Irish time for our Harpers' Gathering community social time, hosted by HHSI volunteer, Barbara Karlik. Come and enjoy harp-related talk, share your projects and progress, and try out tunes you want to play in front of a small, very supportive audience.
From 5–6 pm, enjoy an informal interview with this month's guest, Bill Taylor.
Bill is a teacher-in-residence with Ardival Harps, Strathpeffer, in the Highlands of Scotland. For many years he has taught at the Edinburgh International Harp Festival in the UK, and at the Amherst Early Music Festival in the US, and he is often invited to lead workshops, and to perform, in the British Isles, Europe and the United States. His teaching covers a wide range of subjects: arranging for small harps, using fingernail technique to play wire-strung harps, psalteries and bray harps, and exploring music from medieval, Renaissance and traditional sources. He continues to teach a series of courses on playing music in the historical Welsh harp manuscript of Robert ap Huw, and he is currently constructing a website to serve as a performing guide for playing that music’s tablature. He has made over thirty recordings as a soloist, and with several different ensembles.
Bill will be teaching two sessions of the new course: An introduction to historical tablatures for the autumn 2024 term of Acadamh na gCláirseach–Academy of Early Irish harp.
Follow this link to register for this FREE event:
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0vd-GspjojH9dkxFocdYaxyWPlh_NKuBB7
When you register, you will receive a personalized Zoom link to join.