Washington Area Folk Harp Society


The Washington Area Folk Harp Society
Annual Harpers Getaway
November 1 - 3, 2024


Registrar's Letter
(DOCX format) 		Weekend Schedule Workshops Registration Form
(DOCX format)


The 2024 WAFHS Harpers Getaway will be November 1 - 3. This year, the Getaway will return to the Shepherd's Spring retreat center in Sharpsburg, MD. The registration deadline is October 18. Registration forms must be submitted by October 18.

Our guests this year are Janet Witman and Martha Geouge Hill. Bios for them are given below.

More information coming soon!





 
 
Janet Witman
  Janet Witman is a career harpist of over 40 years on concert and celtic harps. She is a past winner of the US National Scottish Harp Competition and All Eastern Open at the New Hampshire Games. In 2009, she led the Brandywine Harp Orchestra to perform at the Edinburgh Harp Festival. She has produced two CDs with the harp orchestra, "Christmas Crossings" and "Celtic Journeys". Her arrangements of music for solo and ensemble works are sold worldwide on her harp music publishing site: www.brandywineharps.com

Janet and her husband, Kevin Witman present a multimedia show called "Astral Harp" where Kevin's astrophotography along with images from the Webb and Hubble Telescopes capture a glimpse of the grandness of the Universe. He presents an engaging, light lecture and Janet plays her arrangements of pop/jazz harp to accompany the images. Kevin is a popular astro geek, presenting lectures at museums, libraries and planetariums. He was planetarium operator/lecturer at the North Museum at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, PA.

Janet and Kevin reside in rural Chester County, PA with their three cats: Cheddar, Julie, and Toodles.

 


 


 
  A native of the North Carolina Mountains, Martha Geouge Hill grew up in a very musical family. She is a multi-instrumentalist, and earned undergraduate and graduate degrees in music and educational leadership. Martha is passionate about her Celtic heritage, and composes and arranges for the Celtic harp and for the Celtic trio, Stone's Throw, with whom she performs. Martha won the Princess Margaret of the Isles award from the Clan Donald Trust in 2017, and has won awards at the Grandfather Mountain Highland Games both as a soloist and in ensemble with Stone's Throw. She is sanctioned by the Scottish Harp Society of America as a harp competition judge. Martha performs in a variety of venues, and is active as a teacher and presenter. Plans are underway to publish a book of solo harp arrangements and a new solo CD.  

 





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