One week has already passed since the glorious Nordic Harp Meeting 2013 happened in Järna, and the chief organiser Erik Ask-Upmark has hopefully regenerated by now. A big THANK YOU to Erik and all who were there, the contributors and participants! Let’s hope that all of you returned home full of inspiration, new tunes, new musical ideas and the aftertaste of surströmming.
Stay tuned!
We proudly announce that Andy Lowings will give a punchy talk about Lyres around the world (in place of the Sunday morning cancelled one at 9 am.) It will be really great, funny, quirky and relevant. Click here to read more details.
This is most probably the last update before the NHM. Stay tuned and see you all in Järna!
The “early bird” registration deadline has expired, and all available mattresses have been reserved to those who have registered to the Nordic Harp Meeting 2013 so far.
It is still possible to make a late registration (costs: 700 SEK, food included). Note that no accomodation is included, so if you need a bed, you have to book yourself a hostel or make friends with the natives.
Single day tickets will be available at the entrance (no food nor accomodation included), for any visitors who do not want to stay the whole weekend. Click here for details.
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.