CARROLLTON, Va. — Sunshine Huggins, 17, has been playing the harp since she was 3 years old. The angelic sounds of the instrument caught her ear and interest from the moment she saw it being played.

Margot Krimmel is a harpist based in Boulder, Colorado. In the 1980s, she worked at a ski resort in Vail playing the harp. “I was in my mid-30s, and I pretty much felt like I had won the jackpot,” ...

Calvin Arsenia, singer, song-writer and musician performs at a show for the Greenwood Social Hall in Kansas City playing the harp. Emily Curiel ecuriel@kcstar.com Editor's Note: This interview is part ...

itting on stage with her harp resting in her lap, Destiny Muhammad repeats this mantra: “Excellence, Beauty, and Success.” It’s part mic-check and part pump-up. When she first started learning to play ...

At 5 years of age, Duluthian Georganne Hunter bonded with her 97-year-old great-grandmother through knitting and singing. "She was almost outraged that my parents weren't teaching me how to knit. She ...

Mikaela Davis is the paragon of a well-funded, mostly public arts education. Davis’ elementary school in Rochester, N.Y. offered third grade students the choice of learning any string or band ...

As told by the eyes, it was a quiet classroom on a Thursday morning. But according to the ears, it may as well have been heaven. Lydia Cleaver was recounting her 16 years at the helm of Cass Technical ...

Amy Nam, Luther College adjunct faculty in music for harp and composition, was awarded second prize in the World Harp Competition, held during the 2024 Dutch Harp Festival in Utrecht, Holland, in ...

Flute too boring for your daughter? Trumpet too average for your son? The harp could be an option. Junior high students in the Mesa Unified School District who have already participated in band or ...

It’s going to sound heavenly in Orlando as the American Harp Society holds its annual conference here for the first time ever. From June 16-19 more than 300 harpists from around the world will gather ...

When the sublime is in fashion, quiet beauty struggles to be heard. Dorothy Ashby, America’s first great jazz harpist, came of age amid the clamor of giants—men like Charles Mingus, Cecil Taylor, and ...