Details about further workshops and lectures have been uploaded in the programme of the NHM 2013. You can read more by clicking the following links:
– Anouk Platenkamp (Netherlands): Harp therapy (workshop)
– Bo Lawergren (Sweden/USA): Earliest harps of Eurasia (lecture)
– Lise Enochsson (Sweden): Mind your spine – physiotherapy for harpists
– Mark Harmer (England): Improvisation and composition (workshop)
– Tomoko Sugawara (Japan/USA): Earliest harps of Eurasia (concert)

A more detailed schedule has been uploaded in the programme of the NHM 2013.
You can read more details about some workshops and lectures by clicking the following links:
– FUNI (Iceland): Icelandic songs  (workshop for voices, but instruments are welcome too)
– Kirsten Holm (Denmark/Sweden): 5-string kantele instruments and the Finnskogen
– Tristan LeGovic (Brittany/Sweden): Breton music for modern Celtic harp (intermediate to advanced level workshop)
– Vincent Michaud (Brittany/Finland): Relationship between dance and music through the medium of gavotte bigoudenn (part 1: dance workshop; part 2: music, taught in ancient style on the wire-strung harp but open for all other instruments)

You can also read an interview (in Swedish) with Mikuláš Bryan (Bohemia) about recent European Bal Folk Dances which he will be teaching at the NHM together with Thomas Claus (Belgium).
Parts of this interview have recently been published in Hembygden 3/2013.

Glada nyheter för alla som gillar fika – glad news for all who enjoy “collective coffee together with cakes in a friendly atmosphere of smalltalk” (note how many English words are necessary to express the meaning of the simple Swedish word “fika”…):

Erik announces that pupils of the Solvik school (who will be hosting the Nordic Harp Meeting 2013 at Järna) will run a café on Friday and Saturday, infusing us with the necessary caffeine to keep us awake during sessions and concerts. Rejoice!

If you want to make sure to get food and accomodation, you should register in advance.  Click here for registration.
Primitive accomodation on the floor is included if you bring your own sleeping bag and are among the first 50 who register. (There is a limited number of 50 mattresses in the venue – first registers, first serves.) no longer available.

Single day tickets will be available at the entrance, but these won’t include food.

All those who have wondered how to get to the NHM 2013 can now read How to find Järna with descriptions and maps.