We’re now delighted to open the 15th Nordic Harp Meeting for registration! In order to register as a participant, please go to the registration portal.
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Finland 2022
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.
Venue: Konsan Kartano, Virusmäentie 9, Turku. The venue is 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. The bus line no. 1 runs there from both the ferry terminals and the airport about once every 10 -15 minutes daily, with the bus stop about 150 m from the venue. The no. 1 bus also runs past the Youth Hostel and the city centre.
First update, June 2022: REGISTRATION IS OPEN.
Second update, September 2022: Click here to see the list of workshops
Third update, October 2022: The official programme of the NHM 2022
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)