Category: Rio harp festival 2013

(As I prepare to travel to Rio again for the Rio Harp Festival I realized I’d never finished my blog about last year’s experience…  Well, better late than never! :) I had a half-written post about day 5 that I’ve just finished, and I’ve also written about my visit to São Paulo, here, and here) On…

(As I prepare to travel to Rio again for the Rio Harp Festival I realized I’d never finished my blog about last year’s experience…  Well, better late than never! :) I had a half-written post about day 5 that I’ve just finished, and I’ve also written about my visit to São Paulo, here, and here) After…

(As I prepare to travel to Rio again for the Rio Harp Festival I realized I’d never finished my blog about last year’s experience…  Well, better late than never! :) I had a half-written post about day 5 that I’ve just finished, and I’ve also written about my visit to São Paulo, here, and here) Rain!…

Thursday was my last day of performing, with a 2pm concert at the Justiça Federal Cultural Centre. Here’s a view from the van window on the way to the concert: Performing! (photo credits Tatiana Lima Castro) I have some video footage of the concert and will post that soon! After the concert festival organizer Sergio…

Wednesday at 12:30 pm Russian harpist Sasha Boldachev was doing an extra concert – I thought I was going to miss all his performances, so was excited to learn that he’d been asked to perform again.  My concert was later in the afternoon at the same location, the Biblioteca do Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil.…

Hi everyone, Been having a great time here in Brazil and haven’t found time to post – lets try and catch up :)  Was also hoping to track down some photos from Tuesday’s concert, but that will have to wait. So Tuesday evening was my first concert in Rio.  I played at a theatre that…

Tuesday morning harpist Isabella and harp technician Rodrigo picked me up and took me hiking up Morro da Urca, the smaller part of Sugarloaf Mountain. At Red Beach before the climb Straight up! (We took the path, however) Monkeys! Climbing Who needs cable cars! Quite a view…. Trusty companions! On the way down… Success! Coming…

I’m performing at the 2013 Rio Harp Festival.  My first time to South America; I’m going to be blogging about my experiences, starting with my loooong day of travel :) Here I am waiting at the airport in Victoria at 7:30 am on Sunday, May 12.  From Victoria I flew to Calgary, from Calgary I…