A Visit to the Musical Instrument Museum

A recent trip to the Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix, Arizona. I went to check out how they do their video presentations as I will be doing something similar for a museum in Tainan, Taiwan. It was a wonderful experience that I recommend to everyone. You can visit their site at www.TheMim.org

Legends of the Celtic Harp performs a tune by O'Carolan

I have been part of a wonderful new show with my favorite storytelling/harper Patrick Ball. We have created a performance that blends music and stories of the harp through time. We are having an incredible experience with it, we have played many fine theaters and the people just love the show. Patrick is so funny, and the stories are so heartwarming. Interesting facts about the harp, with folklore and myths too. Aryeh and I get to play other instruments besides our harps, and much of the music is from my collection of original compositions. Here is just a sample of what its like. On this clip that tells of the legendary harper  O'Carolans early life.
I'll be posting more soon.

Week of November 4th

Hi Everyone,
I brought my video camera with me to celebrate voting and decided to keep going allweek with it, catching moments of what my life is like. There are images of where I live, places I go, my work in the hospitals, performing with friends, going to Agape,
traveling, and a festival in Florida. I hope you will enjoy this 9 minute whirlwind
tour that takes place in just six days.

You will hear music that is live, as well as from recordings. Here are the songs featured in order of appearance.

Lauda - Two Worlds One - Lisa Lynne & Aryeh Frankfurter
Bandora's Box - Seasons of the Soul by Lisa Lynne
Wake up - by Hudost, www.Hudost.com
All My Guitars - by Hudost
Welcome - from Seasons of the Soul by Lisa Lynne

Behind the scene...

Here is a look behind the scenes of a typical Windham Hill show. Featured here is
Barbara Higbie, Liz Story, George Tortorelli, Sean Harkness and myself. These shows were last weekend, in Stockton New Jersey, and Scottsdale Arizona. When I got to the first show, I opened the case and the harp had some damage from
the airline. But thankfully it was still playable.

We have so much fun on these shows. Its such a great group. Our next shows are in January so more to come!

Happy Holidays to you and yours.
love, lisa

Performance in Alta Dena, California

Hi everyone,
The weeks post takes us to a wonderful intimate venue in Alta Dena, California. Its about 15 miles northeast of Los Angeles. Its called the Coffee Gallery and its a wonderful place to play because in the back of the coffee shop there is an intimate
theater with excellent sounds and lighting. We have played there twice and each time sold out. The two gals singing are both wonderful artists in their own right, they are singers and writers Adjoa and Ashley Maher. We formed this group just to play at City of Hope, but ended up wanting to do even more, so here it is. We are doing a favorite song of ours by Sarah MacLaughin called "Angel".

Festival in Missouri

Hi there, here is a show we do each summer called "Festival of the Little Hills" in Saint Charles Missouri. It takes place in a small river town, the place where Louis & Clark began their historic expedition to the weston the Missouri River. The people of this town are so very nice, they love our music so much that I keep going back each year.

You will hear sound clips of a few other street performers, our friend Bob Culvertson on the Chapman stick, and our friend Mark Holland on the Native American flutes. You will see George playing an incredible hand made flute in the shape of a long snake, you will see two ladies trying to extract an over filled trash bag, and hear the million secada bugs making their unusual song. Because there is so much other sounds going on at different levels, I opted to put in a recorded song over the images, so thats what you are hearing, "Little Dirt Road" from my New Morning CD. I left original sound from the other musicians of course.

So you can see what a typical weekend is like in the many midwestern towns and cities I visit. I hope you enjoy it and get the sense of how human it all is..

Big Sky Harp Conference

This summer in Big Sky Montana the harp conference took place.Here are some clips that I put together, please pardon the shakey footage, it was so busy that I was lucky to get any video at all. The harp conference brings hundreds of harp peformers and enthusiasts from all over the country and world. We go there to teach the participants and share our music with everyone. The was the final stop of the tour with Aryeh Frankfurter and you will see in the opening clip of us playing harp and viola on the main stage. Following that is Aryeh's set where I played Octave mandolin and we were joined by another two wonderful harpers William Jackson and Grainne Hambly playing pennywhistle and concertina. Next is a trio with Kim Robertson on harp, myself on harp and Aryeh on Nickelharpa. The last segment ends with a jam session in the hotel lobby featuring harpists Kim Robertson, Aryeh Frankfurter, Sue Richards, and Seumas Gagne. I am mostly taking the footage, and also playing mandolin. The website for future conferences is www.BigSkyHarpConference.com

Photo -Monday mornings...

Hi Friends,
Its a typical Monday morning and I'm sitting at the little Valdosta airport, getting ready to fly to Atlanta and then fly home to Los Angeles. It was a festival weekend and beautiful spring days here in Georgia. The festival was called "A Love Affair" because it took place on Love Street in a small historic town. The people are so very nice here and they sure seem to love the music. This is my fourth weekend in a row coming to Georgia just one more weekend to Florida, then home for two whole weeks..yay. I usally go somewhere by airplane about 3 out of 4 weekends a month. Out Friday, back Monday..All the way from LA to the east coast somewhere. I actually love to travel and see other places, sometimes the traveling is a challenge, but I really don't mind it.

I have aquired some new video equipment and editing ability so soon I will be posting videos of some road adventures. Its incredible what you can do now right from the laptop so please check back soon for that.
Gotta get up.. time to get through security... more soon..

Below: photo of me at the Georgia festival festival weekend.. Is she concentrating, or is she asleep....?