Harps North West
COVID -19 UPDATE. We hope you are all keeping safe and well in these strange times. Due to the ongoing situation and government guidelines on social distancing, our events and meetings are currently postponed. We shall keep you informed as things develop, but for now you can keep up to date with us online, keep visiting our website for new content and check out our huge range of online learning material in the form of the JaNEWary Challenges,
to learn some beaufitul new music in this down time. We also invited you all to join us in our 'Harps for Harmony' project by submitting a video of yourself playing some or all of Pachelbel's Canon, which we have pieced together to make a global collaboration video. For more information click here.
Apart but together,
With love and best wishes,
Harps North West.
We Are Harps North West
Harps North West is a registered charity whose main aim is to promote playing, teaching and appreciation of the harp.
We offer lots of exciting opportunities for people in North West England to learn more about this beautiful and fascinating instrument.
We aim to enable more people to enjoy the harp in its various forms: from the inexpensive "cardboard" lap-harp to the glorious concert harp and everything in between, but especially the lever harp which is also known as the folk harp or clarsach.
Most of our members, teachers and players live in
Cumbria, Lancashire and North Yorkshire, where we organise workshops, playing groups, skills sessions and our Summer Harp Festivals.
We hope that you enjoy your visit to our site, and that the harp will capture your imagination as it did ours!
'Harps For Harmony'
It's here!! Our global collaboration featuring109 harpist from all over the world playing together.
Find out more about the project here
Online Learning
Learn new music with our online lessons here. Links to helpful online harping tutorials.
Edinburgh's Virtual Harp Festival willstay on line for the forseeable, check it out...lots of great workshops to enjoy from the comfort of your own home!
We kicked off our Online Workshop Serries with guest tutor Lauren Scott.
Click here and scroll down to past events to see the beautiful music we learnt and find out more about how it went. Keep and eye on our calendar for our next online event, we are planning more!
Notice Board
Our role as a charity
Harps North West serves the general public in these ways:
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- We introduce absolute beginners of all ages to playing the harp at tutor-led Beginner Workshops.
- We promote and organise tutor-led Player Workshops and courses for harp players across a range of abilities. These workshops and courses primarily are open to our subscribing members but some are also open to non-members.
- We promote and provide harp playing performances, as informal recitals and as formal concert events open to the general public.
- We provide information to the public to promote the work of Harps North West.
News and Updates
Find out what we have been up to as a society and as individual harpists and all the exciting goings on in our harping community.
Workshops and Events.
Find out what exciting workshops and events we have coming up over the next year.
Becoming a Member
For our subscribing members our management committee promotes harp playing opportunities and social activities
Benefits of becoming a member:
- Free Monthly Workshops
- Playing groups
- Info & support in all things harp
- Access to Harp Hire
- Monthly News Letters
- Priority booking on Guest tutor workshops.
Online Leaning and Resources
Our JaNEWary Challenges will remain online for you to keep revisiting and learning, with expert guidance from one of our tutors Mary you can learn lots of new music with us.
We also have a section dedicated to links to all things harp, from suppliers to festivals and all things inbetween. You can find alsorts in our Harping Directory.
Charity No. 1093441. Contact convenor@harpsnorthwest.org.uk
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