About The Celtic Harp

I play traditional Celtic and medieval music, and also write original music for the harp, both instrumental tunes and songs. In the last year I have joined the non-profit organization, Healing Muses, which takes healing music into local hospitals for the benefit of patients.

I’ve love the sound of harp and wanted one with all my might since I first heard it when I was about 6 years old on an album was called Rusty in Orchestraville. I finally got a harp, a lap harp, in my mid-30s, though I’ve been playing with some regularity only in the last seven or eight years.

I now own and play a 36-string walnut and cherry lever harp built by Dusty Strings of Seattle. Unlike a concert harp, which has pedals, my folk harp has sharping levers to allow me to change keys. And my harp weighs a mere 27 pounds.

If you’d like to learn more about the folk harp tradition in North America, contact the International Society of Folk Harpers and Craftspeople. In the Bay-area where I now reside there are two chapters of ISFHC: the Bay Area Folk Harp Society of which I am a past president, and Harpers Hall which is home to harpers in the south bay area.

For more harpish ideas check my links page.