Harp Lessons for Adults and Children - Online and at Dusty Strings, Seattle
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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.
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.
Get ready for a Pink Floyd reference; we’re going to the harp side of the moon. Harp Escape vol. 12 is “A Saucerful of Secrets” by Pink Floyd. I started Harp Escape videos in 2019, before the pandemic hit our world, because even then, I thought we need the space to heal ourselves. Times have Read more…
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…