All the Strings to My Bow: An Interview with Harpist and Historian Nancy Hurrell
My guest this week on HarpSong™️ is harpist and self described “Harp Detective” Nancy Hurrell. We had such a fun time talking about the harp, inspiration, and bringing history to life.
Nancy is the author of the definitive biography on nineteenth-century Irish harp maker John Egan, The Egan Irish Harps: Tradition, patrons and players. She has taught early harp classes at the Boston Conservatory, Brandeis University, Benslow Music (England), and workshops at The Somerset Folk Harp Festival, the Historical Harp Society and the American Harp Society. With academic degrees in harp performance and fine art, Nancy presents lecture-demonstrations on rare harps in museum collections.
Join me over on Patreon for an extended interview with Nancy as we talk about inspiring student harpists and the next book she has in the works among other fun harp related topics.
I also have signups starting for Harp Music for Beginners and Beyond.
This will be a hybrid of pre-recorded online harp lessons where you can learn the basics of the harp, learn new tunes (Irish/Scottish/World Music), get more comfortable with improvisation, learn how to improvise for meditation, basics of recording & editing, and more. You will also have the opportunity for one on one and group classes.
LINKS
Nancy’s Website: hurrellharp.com
Somerset Folk Harp Festival’s Historical Harp Area: www.somersetharpfest.com/historical.shtml
Museum of Fine Arts Boston: www.mfa.org
Historical Harp Society of Ireland: irishharp.org
