The next Nordic Harp Meeting will take place in Turku, Finland, 20-23 October 2022, and it will be organised by Antti Saarinen, Helka Ermala and Yrjänä Ermala.
That week is the school autumn holiday week in Turku, which will help us in many ways with planning the event. The venue will most probably be an old manor house in the area called Raunistula near Turku Bus station. It`s a lovely area with lots of old wooden architecture, within walking distance from the centre of Turku.
Stay tuned for future updates!
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Seventh update 2021
Here comes a last-minute update about both lectures which have been announced earlier:
The lecture by Lisbeth Ahlgren Jensen (about Hortense Panum, Denmark’s first professional musicologist who wrote about harps and lyres in Northern Europe and tried to propagate the langeleg in Danmark) is unfortunately cancelled.
The lecture by Vincent Laine (Reconstructing an extinct musical style) will be streamed online from Finland.
Sixth update 2021
Finally, the programme is available for download (PDF).
Fifth update 2021
ONE-WOMAN-SHOW WITH LYRES & HARP
Harpens kraft ( Øyonn Groven Myhren)
WORKSHOPS:
- Getting the groove (Adriano Sangineto)
- Lithuanian sutartinės (Modesta Pakalnytė)
- Tagelharpa from the Swedish perspective (Per Runberg)
- Kantele, all levels (Eeva-Kaisa Kohonen)
- Långharpe / Langeleg / Langeleik / Langspil / Hummel / Dulcimer:
Fretted zither seminar with several contributors - Hurdy-gurdy workshop, all levels welcome (Nicolas Koch Simms)
- Singing and playing plucked drones (Miriam Andersén)
- Harp airs and dances from Edward Jones’ famous collection “Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh bards” (1784). (Helen Davies)
- Traditional Norwegian songs for Children with transfer to harp and langeleik (Stein Villa & Marit Steinsrud)
- Filthy Folksongs From Finland – for any instruments & voices (Yrjänä Ermala)
- Icelandic folk music with focus on rímur, tvísöng and hymn traditions (Bára Grímsdóttir & Chris Foster)
- How to use the kantele and gusli (and other “harps”) in monodic medieval music 11-14th century (Agnethe Christensen)
- Danish folk music from the Bast & Rasmus Storm collections (Niss Stricker)
- Musical playground (any instrument, any level) (Anouk Platenkamp)
- Harp for beginners (Anouk Platenkamp)
- Tunes on the Swedish nyckelharpa (Anna Rynefors)
- Tunes on the Appalachian dulcimer (Elizabeth Gaver)
- Mini workshop for busy people (with one harp tune only) (Erik Ask-Upmark)
Fourth update 2021
Please respect that Denmark has its own currency which you may need in case you get thirsty. There will be delicious local beverages for sale, but for Danish cash only, no credit cards, no digital nonsense. Since the organisers are not bankers, it is your own responsibility to localise a Danish cash machine to withdraw the amount of local currency which you intend to to spend.