Monica Schley, Harp Escape
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Monica Schley is Seattle’s most versatile harpist. She has performed with Secret Chiefs 3, Butch Morris, Evan Flory-Barnes, Jherek Bischoff, Eyvand Kang, Masada, Mackelmore & Ryan Lewis, Jim Knapp, Hey Marsailles, Ahamefule J. Oluo, and many other artists.

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Monica is available for virtual events, private & corporate engagements, weddings, recording, live performance, funerals, and harp instruction. As a Certified Clinical Musician, she plays for hospitals and hospice.

Harp Lessons and Music Media

As a teacher, she has a home studio and teaches at Dusty Strings Music, in Seattle. Monica has an informative and entertaining YouTube channel, and has published sheet music with Mel Bay, “Songs of Hildegard von Bingen for Harp“.

Wedding Harpist

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Hildegard von Bingen for Harp

The book is out! Songs of Hildegard von Bingen for Harp is now available from Mel Bay Publications. This collection of sheet music includes fifteen of Hildegard’s song arranged for the harp. Regarded as a mystic, herbalist and healer, Hildegard von Bingen lived from 1098-1179. She was proficient in many areas, including composition, and also wrote several books about religion, art, politics, philosophy, and science. Find Songs of Hildegard von Bingen for Harp on YouTube! Sign up for newsletter updates here.

 

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Songs of Hildegard von Bingen, arranged for harp.

In Concert

Thur. Mar 5
Songs of Hildegard von Bingen
album release
all/most streaming platforms
anytime

Fri. Mar 13
with Some’tet
at at Underbelly
119 1st Ave S, (Pioneer Sq.) Seattle, WA 98104
6:00-8:00pm

Sat. Mar 21
solo lounge harp
at at Wine Shop Vashon
17205 Vashon Hwy SW A-1, Vashon, WA 98070
6:00-8:00pm

Sat. Apr 18
solo lounge harp
at at Wine Shop Vashon
17205 Vashon Hwy SW A-1, Vashon, WA 98070
6:00-8:00pm

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Harp Blog

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Sing Back Into the Places You Love

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I was listening to Ada Limon, our nation’s former poet laureate, being interviewed on NPR’s Fresh Air. My ear caught a phrase she said, “sing back into the places you love.” By chance, I have been reading her book, You Are Here, which is a culmination of a larger project, a collection of poems on Read more…