12th Stamford International Harp Festival
28th-29th
August 2010
Took place at Stamford & Northborough, Peterborough
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Photographs from Sunday's concert
The 12th Harp Festival this year was larger than in recent years.
Supported by:
With
the help of Stamford Town Council,
Pilgrim Harps,
Cllr.
Peter Hiller of North Peterborough Ward,
and the Austrian Cultural
Forum, London
we managed to create two days of concerts and workshops
and to broadcast some of it LIVE to the world.
A real first for the harp!
Thanks
to LIVESTREAM.com in New York,
with Mark Harmer of Dance of Delight,
our UK Technical Manager.
Friday
began with a Church Concert in
MORTON, Lincolnshire, with solo harpists
Mark Harmer and David Watkins.
On
Saturday at St George's Church, STAMFORD,
the festival organised
a workshop on
"Austrian Harp music" and a
"Master Class with
David Watkins".
The
evening concert was with the
Austrian harp duo
Genoveva Kirchweger
and Angela Reithuber
from Molln in Upper Austria,
joined by
David Watkins.
On
Sunday the event was attended once again by
Diego Laverde Rochas from
Colombia
who also gave a workshop.
Harpist
Tara Jaff
and daf player Adalet Gamiani
from Kurdistan in
Iraq
David Watkins,
who played a cameo suite for the packed audience in
St Andrew`s Church, NORTHBOROUGH.
Both
evening concerts were filmed by Mark Harmer
and film crew with camera
operators
in contact via headsets and
controlled by an internet mixing
desk.
Sunday`s
concert went out LIVE on the internet and was watched throughout the world,
with comments arriving as the concert took place.
Over 1,000 people watched the STAMFORD INTERNATIONAL HARP FESTIVAL at some point over the weekend! ..
Thanks for making this available to everyone! Anon. Maryland USA
Recorded
interviews and specially-recorded harp pieces were inserted into the programmes
and these gave a real television feel to what is now called
THE
HARP CHANNEL
Thank you to those who contributed.
We
want to continue to broadcast such harp events which create a real harpists' community
feeling……worldwide.
The broadcasts continue to be available even now.
www.livestream.com/harp
Pilgrim Harps* was our sole, designated, maker-supplier during the weekend and John Hoare was on standby to give hands-on attention for anyone interested in taking up the harp.
*Pilgrim
Harps Interview:
http://www.livestream.com/harp/video?clipId=flv_7c4a7910-eaa7-42cf-a0fa-6ce44b9b77f0&utm_source=lslibrary&utm_medium=ui-thumb
We wish to thank all players, attendees, organisers, and venue owners. Especially, in addition, for the extra financial support from those organisations that helped make it possible.
We are now looking for ideas for the 13th Stamford International Harp Festival that fit with our ethos of being: varied in harp style, quirky and original, yet of the highest standard of playing.
Please
contact us at any time.