It’s January, and many of you are still in for months of snow and ice. Yet just a few days ago, I noticed that the copper flowers had opened overnight on the witch hazel in the front garden. That, along with the sight of crocus leaves popping up through the mud, is certain evidence of [...]
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Well here is a rare opportunity to see several of the world’s best harpers perform. As you’ll see in my previous post, TG4, the Irish Language TV station, created a documentary on the legacy of the mysterious blind harper, Denis O’Hempsey, who was an old man back in 1792 when Edward Bunting noted down the [...]
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Thanks to the sharp eyes of friend and doctoral research student Karen Loomis, I understand that TG4, the Irish language TV station, has presented a program this evening showing a number of the participants in the November 2009 Belfast harp recital. The harpers include some of the luminaries, such as Ann Heymann and Alison Kinnaird. [...]
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