SIX DAYS HARP MAKING WORKSHOP 2025
​with SYLVESTRE CHARBIN(from Brittany)

Details:
WEDNESDAY 22ND OCTOBER TO MONDAY 27TH OCTOBER 2025
(6 consecutive days) 10:00 to 17:00, Lunch break 1 hour
MODEL: TUGDUAL 27 STRING LAP HARP (No levers)

VENUE: DEPARTMENT,  29 - 30 Cross Street - RYDE PO33 2AA, ISLE OF WIGHT

Come and Try the Harp
with FRAN BARSBY (from England)

This special session offered a wonderful opportunity for people of all ages to try their hand at the harp. Led by Fran, it was a fun and welcoming experience where participants learned basic techniques, played some simple tunes, and discovered more about continuing their harp journey. The harps, kindly provided by some of our wonderful exhibitors, made the event even more special. Thank you to everyone who took part and helped make it such a memorable experience.

Breton
​with MYRDHIN (from Brittany)

An opportunity to explore various Breton styles and rhythms, mostly or circle dances.
Dancing, singing with self-accompaniment, improvisation.
Teaching by ear with written music available at the end of the course.

LEVEL: Intermediate and Advanced

Medieval-Renaissance Ballads
from all over Europe
ELISA NICOTRA (from Brittany)

Description:
Elisa proposes some samples of European ballad heritage (North Italian, Scandinavian and French), each with their recurrent melodic patterns and proposes different interpretations for each and ornamentation according to the origin of the ballad.

Subtle Energy Dimensions of The Harp
DANIEL PERRET (from France)

Description:
Exploring Distance healing with the harp. The energy fields of the harp and the harpist, developing feelings and intuition in harp playing.
Tuning into sources of inspiration (mental, astral, spiritual). Musical structures hindering our intuitive flow. Musical paths into free improvisation e.g. the five elements.
How distance healing with the harp operates on subtle energy levels.
What can be achieved with distance healing. Healing for humans, animals, nature and spiritual entities.
Cooperation with non-physical beings. Overcoming inner obstacles.

Voice of the Harp, Voices of the Heart
MARIANNE GUBRI (Breton/Italy)

Description:
Explore the emotional power of modal improvisation to create evocative soundscapes, tell stories and guide meditative journeys.
Learn how to speak, sing and play from the heart, weaving myths, poems and inner visions into music that resonates with soul and meaning.

Harpscapes
RAOUL MORETTI (from Italy)

Description:
Introducing the use of electronics supporting the harp as adding colours to the instruments.
Creating with acoustic harps, using easy patterns, unconventional techniques and improvisation, some soundscapes of different moods.