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February 2021 Newsletter

Post Date: February 11, 2021
Dear friends of harp music,
I have been silent last month since my husband and I were still recovering from Covid in early January. We had the illness over Christmas and I wouldn’t wish it on anybody. My husband initially tested positive after a confirmed exposure, I followed a few days later. Our children remained negative, so we had to isolate from them in our own home. Our church really helped us by delivering meals at the time when I couldn’t cook. Our doctor and the health department were also amazing frequently checking on us. My husband had a strong course of illness with 10 days of high fevers and all the symptoms in the book, mine was lighter, but fatigue and headaches would sneak in even days later. My son eventually also tested positive just as we were coming out of isolation, the other two kids continued to remain negative. We recovered though and we are grateful for friends and family who helped us through.
I am back to performing and teaching and would like to share and invite you to the following events this month:
Tonight at 7.30pm I will playing therapeutic music for “A Peaceful Pause” It’s the first event in a series of three on February 11th, 18th and 25th on Zoom. Join us for 45 minutes of harp music, deep breathing and essential oils. This is a collaboration with Kindred Collective, each session will have a theme based on the 3 groups of essential oils. 2/11 Grounding (tree oil), 2/18 Soothing (floral oil), 2/25 Uplifting (citrus oil). Oil samples are included, if you are local you will get your oils delivered! It’s not too late to sign up! You can sign up for all 3 sessions for $60 or at $25 each
This Valentine’s Day I have different plans than ever before! Over the past 10 years I have enjoyed performing for variety of Valentine’s Day events in Columbia, STL or KC. This year, since gatherings are limited due to the pandemic, my friend Ruth Acuff and I decided to join forces and put on a virtual Valentine’s Day Concert on Facebook on February 14th at 6pm CST. It will last 45 min to an hour and we chose 6pm because it will allow our listeners to use it as a pre dinner entertainment or as background dinner music.
If you don’t know Ruth Acuff, you are in for a real treat – she is a signer/ songwriter/ harpist with ethereal voice, her music and lyrics evoke both earthy and celestial atmospheres. We will be taking turns performing from our own homes and perhaps have a conversation in the middle of the concert as well. I will be playing harp arrangements of some of my favorite romantic songs.  This is a free concert, but donations to both us for future musical projects and recordings will be accepted via Vemno, Paypal or CashApp.
More information here: https://fb.me/e/239rjEsIb
For those of you who tune to Harp and Healing every month, we didn’t have one in January as I was still recovering from Covid. We had one on February 2nd had an underlying theme that was “Anger and letting go”. The words that Pastor Terry Overfelt had for us spoke to me that day on so many levels.
Here is link to view February Harp and Healing:
Lastly, I would like to remind you of my Romantic Harp album that is a perfect dinner companion for this month. It can be found on Spotify, iTunes, Apple music, YouTube, Amazon music, Deezer or as a physical CD at the Music Suite on Providence. On it are harp arrangements of famous songs such as Think of me, Shadow of Your Smile, Unchained Melody, Scarborough Fair, I am Happy to Just Dance with You, All I Ask Of You and many more.
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