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November 2019

Nov. 2019 Newsletter

Dear Friends of harp music, As we leave yet another month behind us and another birthday for me, I would like to invite you to November events that I am taking part of. Harp and Healing, Tuesday November 5th, 5.30PM at the Loft of Broadway Christian Church. Join us for 45 minutes of therapeutic live harp music intertwined with reflective words of Pastor Terry Overfelt. This service is meant for those who are in need of healing, be it physical, spiritual, emotional. Free and open for all. More information: click here On November 17th, I will be the featured musician at the Olivet Christian Church during their Arts Sunday services. Celebration of all things artistic and live painting will be taking place in this special church at 8.30 and 11AM. The Missouri Theatre will be very noisy on November 21st because of the Missouri Symphony's annual 3th grade program called "How to Build an orchestra". If you have a child or grandchild in third grade enrolled in CPS, they will be there either at 10AM or 12PM. Please ask them about this special experience! On November 22nd and 23th I will be accompanying Johnny Mathis along with the Springfield Symphony in two concerts at the Mansion Theatre in Branson. It is not a long trip and his concerts are amazing. What a treat to play with such a legend. If you love his music, consider coming to this early Christmas Concert. I look forward to this every year! There is a lot of websites selling Branson tickets, just look up Johnny Mathis, Mansion theatre, Branson , 2019. My new Christmas Album called Christmas Harp is coming out in November! I...

November 1, 2019

October 2019

Oct. 2019 Newsletter

Dear friends of the harp, I hope you had a good month of September, I certainly enjoyed plenty of performing opportunities and a nice weather and time spent with my family. Some of my favorite events included wedding ceremonies in beautiful new locations around Missouri, playing for the Super Sam Gala and the Springfield Symphony 85th season opening concert. Looking at October, I would like to invite you to concerts and events that I am involved in! Today, Tuesday October 1st - first Tuesday of the month, 5.30pm - Harp and Healing service at Broadway Christian Church - the Loft. In it's 7th season, the Harp and Healing service continues to attract people in need of healing - be it physical, spiritual, emotional, relational. Therapeutic harp music is intertwined with inspirational word. 45 minutes in length, free and open for all. Facebook event link: https://www.facebook.com/events/2243532132443192/?ti=icl On October 7th, I will join the MU Wind Ensemble in concert in the Missouri Theatre at 7pm. It's always interesting to be the only string instrument added to the band of woodwinds, brass and percussion! Other than that, the rest of this month is filled with private events, I will be providing music for wedding ceremonies in Alton,IL on October 5th, Quincy, IL on October 12th, Jefferson City on the 19th and both Columbia and Saint Louis on the 26th! I will also be playing for the Employee recognition dinner for 3M this month. I continue working on my Christmas CD, at this point it's working on final edits with LinderVox Sound and on CD cover design with Maura Mudd....

October 1, 2019

September 2019

Sept. 2019 Newsletter

Dear friends of harp music, I hope you had a great and restful summer! I was busy playing for the Hot Summer Nights festival in June through mid July, but took a nice break in August to spend time with my kids. We had some nice family trips to Colorado, Branson and Buffalo National River in Arkansas. I am refreshed and ready for another season of performances and teaching. Pastor Terry Overfelt and I are excited to start the 9th season of Harp and Healing services on Tuesday September 3th. This is a 45 minutes long ministry of classical and therapeutic harp music intermingled with inspirational and thoughtful readings. The service was created as a space/time/gift for those who are heartbroken. For those who lost a loved one, gone through divorce or are coping with an illness. The atmosphere is very meditative and non intrusive. Whether you are experiencing these things or you just want to join us for the relaxing music, you are welcome! Free and open for all, 5.30pm at Broadway Christian Church. We were invited to talk about H&H at Radio friends with Paul Pepper, here is a link to that interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K99sSdcFoQU&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR1NK1tyWargVz2P_Qr9H_8aaRjv6y_dhMZnioPTcmz0pOqlHgm2jNb7G4E And they surprised me with a super sweet behind the scenes video called Harp Delivery, it's very cute, here is a link to that: https://www.facebook.com/223148557714142/posts/2738822516146721/ On September 17th we will have a special Harp and Healing as part of Partners in Ministry Retreat, this will be an hour long event and will include communion. It will take place at Broadway Christian Church...

September 1, 2019

June 2019

June & July 2019 Newsletter

Dear friends of harp music,my June and July is filled with the Missouri Symphony concerts during Hot Summer Nights festival. I hope you can attend some of the following concerts. This newsletter is coming a few days into the festival, so 3 concerts are already gone, but there is one right this evening! For information and tickets go to: https://themosy.org/hot-summer-nights-2019/A Grand Night for Singing! June 8th, 8pm, Missouri Theatre The Missouri Symphony and Columbia Chorale welcomes Columbia’s own Melissa Bohon and friends in a semi-staged evening showcasing the best of Rodgers and Hammerstein. Including iconic moments from Oklahoma, Carousel, The Sound of Music and more. Great songs, choruses and dancing- it will truly be “Some Enchanted Evening!”Strike Up the Band! Take 2, June 9, 2019 at 7:00 pm, Lake Ozarks AmphitheaterJoin MSO for Take 2 of the ‘Strike Up the Band’ Community Concert at the beautiful Lake of the OzarksChamber Recital – June 10, June 10, 2019 at 7:00 pm, Broadway Christian Church Missouri Symphony Orchestra musicians perform in small groups with a wide range of repertoire from the baroque to the very newest works. While enjoying the superb acoustics of the Broadway Christian Church, the audience has a unique opportunity to get close to the musicians and meet with them after the concerts. Buster Keaton in: The General, June 12, 2019 at 7:00 pm, Missouri TheatreWhen Union spies steal an engineer’s beloved locomotive, he pursues it single-handedly and straight through enemy lines. Enjoy Buster Keaton’s 1926 American silent film comedy accompanied by the...

June 1, 2019

May 2019

May 2019 Newsletter

Dear friends of harp music, I would love to invite you to the following events in May. Tomorrow, Friday May 2nd - Odyssey Chamber Music Series concert at 7pm at First Baptist Church downtown. I have been practicing for about a month now to polish the harp part for this special concert, I will be playing Cantilena and Scherzo by Gian Carlo Menotti for harp and string quartet with the Esterhazy string quartet. It has so many pedal changes it's unreal, but that stays hidden from your view! If you can, please join me! More information: https://www.odysseymissouri.org/ On Sunday May 5th at 7pm in the Missouri Theatre we have the final Missouri Symphony Conservatory Concert. This is a culmination of the semester's worth work for Junior Sinfonia, Young Artists Philharmonic and Chamber Players. Two of my talented harp students will be performing with the orchestra. More information: http://www.springfieldmosymphony.org/ Tuesday, May 7th at 5.30pm at Broadway Christian Church - Sanctuary we will hold the final Harp and Healing of this season before we break for the summer. We decided to call it Spring renewal as everything around us in the nature is sprouting and giving us hope. To make it even more special, we will have a local artist Jenny McGee to live paint during the service and my husband Kirk will join me on a couple of pieces on cello. Pastor Terry Overfelt will have selected poetry and inspirational readings. More information: https://www.facebook.com/events/346748006200248/ Then next weekend I will be in Springfield playing with the Springfield Symphony. The concert is entirely...

May 1, 2019

April 2019

April 2019 Newsletter

Dear friends of harp music, I would like to invite you to the following events this month, although I will be playing more in Springfield than in Columbia! On April 2nd we hold Harp and Healing at 5.30 pm at the Loft of Broadway Christian Church. This is a monthly service, free and open for all. Whether you are in need of any kind of healing, be it physical, spiritual, relational or just want to listen to relaxing live harp music and inspirational word by pastor Terry Overfelt - join is tonight! Tomorrow I am going back to Springfield for the rest of the week of rehearsals leading to the performance of Bernstein's opera Candide this Friday night with the Springfield Regional Opera. More info: https://www.sropera.org/ I will also be back there playing with the Springfield Symphony the following weekend, in concert on April 13th, Copland's Appalachian Spring on the program. More info: https://www.springfieldmosymphony.org/concerts/april/will-you-marry-me On April 17th at 6PM, my students and I are presenting our annual harp concert at Lenoir Woods, if you know any residents there, let them know! On April 28th, both my harp students and my husband's cello students will perform in a Studio recital at 3PM in the Sanctuary of Broadway Christian Church. This is for families mainly, but feel free to join us if you like! Taking a peak into May, I will be performing a chamber music piece on Odyssey Concert Series on May 3th More info: https://www.odysseymissouri.org/programs.html And we will have a final Harp and Healing of this season on Tuesday May 7th at 5.30PM. The...

April 1, 2019

March 2019

March 2019 Newsletter

Dear friends of harp music, It's March and we still have snow on the ground around us. As much as I enjoyed this winter, I am ready for beautiful spring and looking forward to Spring Break at the end of this month. But before I head out of town late this month, there are several events and concerts I would like to invite you to. Tonight at 5.30pm, Loft of Broadway Christian Church - Harp and Healing, monthly service of live therapeutic harp music and inspirational words by Pastor Terry Overfelt. Free and open for all in need of healing, be it physical, emotional, relational, healing from grief. More information: https://www.facebook.com/events/1111291372384383/?ti=icl I just had the privilege to present the harp and talk about Harp and Healing this morning to the Tuesday Club ( General Federation of Women's Clubs) What a wonderful group of ladies doing so many great things in our community! This coming Sunday, March 10th, 7.30pm at First Baptist Church I will join the Columbia Civic Orchestra in their Missouri Composers Project. The Columbia Chamber Choir joins the CCO to perform new works by Missouri composers,which are selected by a competitive process, during the seventh annual Missouri Composers Project. More information: http://cco.missouri.org/2018-2019-season.html On March 11th, I will join the Missouri Symphony to play 3th Grade concerts. This is the third year the Missouri Symphony has partnered with CPS and is providing 2 concerts in the morning and every third grader enrolled in CPS attends as part of the curriculum. While this is not open to...

March 1, 2019

January 2019

January 2019 Newsletter

Dear friends of Harp music, Happy New Year! Hope this finds you well and rested after the Holidays. We had a wonderful time off with the kids, took time off from teaching and performing over Christmas and new Year with the exception of playing New Year's Eve dinner music at MU Club. December went by fast, Harp and Healing on December 4th saw about 150 people when artist Vesna Delevska created a beautiful painting during this hour of slow and soothing Christmas Carols. We had a anonymous donor come forward and buy the painting for BBC. So it will be on display for future Harp and Healing services! That said, we plan to have Harp and Healing tomorrow at 5.30pm at the Loft of Broadway Christian Church. It's a service filled with hope, healing and breath and at the same time place and time for sorrow, tears and prayers. Join us in this quiet nondenominational service, come light a candle for your concern or for your loved ones. Pastor Terry Overfelt makes us feel at peace each and every month and I try my best to contribute to that by therapeutic and sacred harp music. Other than that January is generally pretty quiet month for me. My husband's and my students will be performing at our studio cello and harp recital on Saturday the 26th at 3PM at Broadway Christian Church, in case you are interested. I will be performing out of town with the MU Wind Ensemble this month in Saint Louis on the January 18th and...

January 1, 2019

December 2018

December 2018 Newsletter

Dear friends of harp music, with beginning of December, I would love to invite you to public events and concerts I am playing this month. On December 1st and 2nd the harps of local harpists and my students will sound at Holiday Home Tour. Featuring 4 beautiful Columbia Homes decorated for the Holidays - The Missouri Symphony League Fundraiser. Harps will be sounding live at the Tina and Mark Workman house. More info: https://mosymphonysociety.z2systems.com/np/clients/mosymphonysociety/event.jsp?event=158& Harp and Healing special - Blue Christmas on December 4th at 5.30 PM, Broadway Christian Church Sanctuary. December can be a wonderful month, filled with the excitement and expectation of Christmas. For some people though it might bring back memories of loss, illness or hardship. Perhaps you lost your loved one just recently and are not ready for the joyous festivities. Harp and Healing special- Blue Christmas is here for you. We will join you in your journey of sorrow and healing with live peaceful Harp music, inspirational words, candle light and live painting. I am so delighted that two special guests agreed to join Pastor Terry Overfelt and myself. Artist Vesna Delevska creating a work of art and singer/songwriter/ harpist Ruth Acuff performing her new Holiday single “Peace”. This Christmas special will be held in the Sanctuary of Broadway Christian Church. We hope you will join us for an evening of healing through beauty of music, art and poetry. Free and open to all. Facebook event page https://www.facebook.com/events/1703071933138474/?ti=icl If you want to learn more about this event you can listen to our segment with Paul Pepper. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgevzF9f1hg Or...

December 1, 2018

November 2018

2018 November Harp Concerts and Healing Harp

Hello friends of harp music, I apologize for this late night email, but I got way behind over this weekend and the kids being off school today (and tomorrow). Anyway, I hope it's not too late to invite you to Harp and Healing tonight Tuesday November 6th at 5.30PM at the Loft of Broadway Christian Church. Despite election tomorrow, we will go ahead with H&H as planned. For those who are interested, this is a monthly service, where I provide 45 minutes of soothing relaxing live harp music and our minister Terry Overfelt provides readings or poems and prayers on the subject of healing. This service is meant for people going through life's difficult situations such as loss of a loved one, illness, recovery, divorce etc. So if you are going through any of these situations, please join us, also feel free to forward our invitation to anybody who could benefit from it. Free and open to everyone. More information: https://www.facebook.com/events/295473704625777/?ti=icl On Wednesday, November 7th, I will be presenting harp to the Boonslick Kiwanis Club at 7.30AM! If you are a member, I am looking forward to seeing you at Rock Bridge HyVee! ( I am looking forward to it, except the early morning part of it ; -) More info: https://boonslick.kiwanis.missouri.org/(X(1)S(hbljsv2u3gydlk5aw554bcq3))/Page/13479 On Sunday November 11th The Missouri Symphony Conservatory Orchestras will present their Fall concert. These are very talented young instrumentalists from all over Columbia, JC, Moberly and Lake who rehearse once every week under the direction of my husband Kirk Trevor. One of my harp students plays harp...

November 1, 2018