Washington Area Folk Harp Society


The Washington Area Folk Harp Society

Annual Harper's Ferry Getaway

October 31 - November 2, 2008



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WAFHS is pleased to announce that the guest teachers for this year's WAFHS Harper's Ferry Getaway are Sue Hoadley and Cheyenne Brown.

Sue Hoadley
  Cheyenne Brown
Sue Hoadley

  Cheyenne Brown

Sue Hoadley is known for her improvisational music played on lever harp and often accompanying herself simultaneously on the Native American flute. Sue is a Certified Music Practitioner with over eight years' experience playing therapeutic music on staff of hospitals for critically and chronically ill patients.

Sue has performed and taught workshops for several years at HarpCon, Somerset Harp Festival, Sylvia Woods, and various other venues. She has released three recordings, which are improvised, original music. Sue is from a family of four generations of harpers, though she herself did not became interested in playing the harp until 1995. Sue is committed to continual learning and helping others develop their own creative "voice" on the harp through improvisation.

  Cheyenne is from Bird Creek Alaska, travelled to Scotland on a full Associated Board scholarship in 2002 to study traditional music at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. She was first inspired to play Scottish music at festivals in the US, where she has since returned as a tutor. She released an album with the harp duo, Wild Thyme, in 2001 and has performed in Thomas Zoellers Homebound concerts and toured Scandinavia with HARPA, a group of leading North American folk harpers.

Her playing style is characteristically free and creative, making much use of improvisation and contrasting textures. She is currently based in Craigmaddie, just outside Milngavie, where she works as a freelance musician.


Contact Judi Schwartz for more information.

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