It is fun to learn music from different cultures. I've just been hired to perform a Jewish wedding. I met with a Rabbi to get the music and had fun just getting to know him.
The music is very rhythmic, mysterious and beautiful and I am having fun learning and arranging it.
Don't you find, harp players, that there is always one string thats ready to pop of your harp. You don't really want to change it before it pops but guess what it always pops right in the middle of a song or just before the bride walks down the aisle, or at some other inopportune time.
Yeah, that's what happened to me at the Renaissance Festival, in MN. Right when I was performing a new musical idea for somebody my top e - string popped. It had been going flat for a couple of weeks before and I knew it was going to break, but changing strings is my nemsis on the harp and I just thought I'd wait it out.
Then while working with a student, very unexpectedly my bottom E wire (31 - string Gothic) popped. I am presently working on breaking in Sunny, my California harp. It (she) needs some new hardware. I am tempted to sand her completely down and refinish her.
She is the harp that my dad built in California for me for when I [...]
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I thought some of you might be as interested in this as I was.
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The Importance of Glutathione in Protecting Against Chronic Illness
Glutathione is critical for one simple reason: It recycles antioxidants. You see, dealing with free radicals is like handing off a hot potato. They get passed around from vitamin C to vitamin E to lipoic acid and then finally to glutathione which cools off the free radicals and recycles other antioxidants. After this happens, the body can "reduce" or regenerate another protective glutathione molecule and we are back in business.
However, problems occur when we are overwhelmed with too much oxidative stress or too many toxins. Then the glutathione becomes depleted [...]
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gosh, I just took a brief vacation to California to pick up a van that my brother is giving to me. Me and my son Trevor have been just boys on a road trip, we saw the Grand Canyon fished in the ocean and a lake here and there visited relatives slept in the car acted silly and just had a fun time.
Because my stress level went down by the 4th day of not being at work I could see without my glasses. It was very nice, I can see up close even.
Its amazing what stress will do to your body. Don't forget to take a vacation and see different sights or plan time to just let your hair down. Or in my case since my hair seems to be falling out, I just let my skin droop!
Today I spent the afternoon getting to know the intricacies of North St. Paul. My assignment was to perform for a voluteer banquet at a Senior Care center.
Shouldn't be a problem right? Just follow directions drive up to the front door, unload the harp and play for the event.
Wrong!!!
On this afternoon a huge funeral to honor a St. Paul Policeman shot in the line of duty, snarled traffic with hundreds of police cars coming from downtown St. Paul to file in parade past his former work place which was a few blocks down the street from my destination.
Everything was blocked off none of the driveways or entrances were available so I ended up driving over hill and dale parking in a distant parking lot down a steep grade and hiking with my harp to the the appointed place.
Whew! I'm glad I brought my Renaissance Harp Gothic 31. I made it a little bit late and still managed to play the gig to the satisfaction of the Volunteer banquet planners.
This [...]
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