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Artist
Kathleen Hartshorne
3+ albums
harpfolkcelticfemale vocalsceltic harp
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Kathleen Hartshorne performs the beautiful and haunting music of ancient and contemporary Ireland on her Irish Lever Harp. Singing in both Irish and English with her rich mellow voice, she takes you to a world of myth and magic in the misty emerald hills of Erin. The inspiration to create a CD of the beautiful and haunting traditional music of Ancient Ireland actually came to her in the loveliest of spots in County Antrim, Ireland. On windswept mossy cliffs that dropped a thousand feet into the pristine blue and wild Irish Sea, she leaned against a faery tree in a timeless faery ring, and could see herself dancing a two-hand reel to music sung by the very rocks themselves. Her heart knew it had been longing to play the music of her ancestors. In her youth, she was a classical musician studying voice and piano with the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. She even sang with the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra Festival Choir. But after a brief trip to Ireland in 1999 to seek out her "roots," She fell in love with the Irish lever harp and the haunting strains of ancient Irish music. She returned to Ireland in the summer of 2000 traveling all over Ireland playing and studying. She had the chance to study Celtic harp with Janet Harbison, director of the Belfast Harp Orchestra, and Gráinne Hambly, principle harpist. She also was able to study Sean Nós (ancient) singing and modal harp styles from Gráinne Yeats at the Termonfeckin Harp Workshop in County Louth, Ireland. In Gleann Cholm C
