Fantastic photographer

These photos were taken by Loraine McCall of Mojica Photography, while I was playing at a wedding at the Eldridge Hotel here in Lawrence Kansas. If you are looking for a photographer for your wedding or engagement pictures, I highly recommend her. She is very talented and wonderful to work with. Check out her website to see her beautiful photo galleries. One thing you will love about her, is that she includes a DVD of the photos with reprint copyrights, not to mention a Facebook album as well! That is very valuable and you won't find it included with many other photographers.

CD release

The CD I recorded about a year ago with the KU Wind Ensemble was released this week. I made it into the picture in the liner notes, just barely! It looks like I am turning a page. The CD has some very lovely pieces, my favorite being Anahita by Roshanne Etezady.

Changing of the strings

I have been going through the long, tedious process of changing all the strings on my harp. It has taken awhile because I always have a little helper,

or two, when I am working on it.

And sometimes even a third helper! This particular helper was quite useful with wrangling those impossible wire strings. Thanks honey!

My harp is sounding fantastic with the new strings. Tomorrow it will be regulated by a professional technician. The pedal harp has over a 1000 moving parts and requires yearly maintenance. I am fortunate to live fairly close to a harp technician. He lives in Kansas City and will drive out to Lawrence to work on a few harps tomorrow. In every other place that I have lived we have had to fly out a technician once a year to work on all the harps in the area.

I am looking forward to performing Rutter's Requiem in a few weeks at Plymouth Congregational, with my lovely, restrung and regulated harp!