He has been called ”a gentle sound-painter,” a ”New Age Pied Piper.” Both seem fitting tags for Andreas Vollenweider, the Swiss harpist who is winning over American audiences with his mesmerizing mood ...
What does a harp sound like when it's being strummed atop a dormant volcano, at an altitude of 5,895 metres? "It sounds like heaven," Irish harpist Siobhan Brady said. Brady has just performed a ...
In a recession that shuttered longtime manufacturers, reshaped whole industries and sent millions of people looking for work, one might expect a company that makes $100,000 harps to be wobbling at the ...
If you think playing the harp is something only angels do, then you’ve never met Yolanda Kondonassis. She's in part the reason why the new harp concerto that Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Jennifer ...
[Johan] has slipped down the rabbit hole of making musical instruments. His poison? Laser harp MIDI controllers. Having never made one before, he thought he would start small and then iterate using ...
David Kortier doesn’t claim Irish heritage. But he makes authentic early Irish harps, the kind played by Ann Heymann, an Irish harp music scholar and performer who lives in Winthrop, in southern ...