Electric or Acoustic Harp Music and Songs for:

Film, TV, and Soundtracks

Session recordings

Weddings and other events

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RECENT APPEARANCES:  Recently, I sang for Ohio State University’s President Gee for his birthday.  Dr. Gee has done so much for OSU, and delighted so many with his quick wit, that I was glad to have him say the song was “lots of fun, and very energizing!”

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UPCOMING SHOWS:   I am currently planning a show at the Wild Goose in Clintonville.   Sign up for an alert via RSS or email me from the Contact page; the email RSS sign-up doesn’t work.  

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WHY THIS SITE IS KNOWN AS “HORRIBLE  HARP MUSIC.COM.”   In writing a blog called “Harp on the Edge,” I spent many, many hours combing the internet to find examples of cutting-edge, pop/rock harp music.  Unfortunately, ninety-eight percent of what I found almost instantly gave me a very bad feeling in the pit of my stomach; something akin to what one might feel upon stepping off the Tilt-A-Whirl ride after having eaten a blooming onion, half a bottle of Coke and one bite of a deep-fried Twinkie.    I could post examples of what I found here on this page, but, I am not a mean person.  Just highly irritable.  If I hear just one more harp intro to Stairway to Heaven, I’m going to have track you down and put a carboot on your harp to save what remains of humanity’s sanity.

Now — and I suspect that you’re a lot like me in this regard — when someone says they are going to play a “pop song” (or any other type of “song,” for that matter) on the harp, I immediately get that sick feeling coupled with dread and a sudden desire to have atoned for my sins much, much, earlier.  I pray that my own music does not call up, either literally or figuratively, this self-same response in others.  But in case it does, I decided to beat others to the punch and take on the ‘horrible’ moniker as an ameliotory reparation to those who have had this response to my music and survived.

For whatever reason, there just is not much good pop-rock harp out there.  If you know of good examples – or even very bad examples — by all means — please pass them along!  But note that you cannot use my own work as one of the bad examples, because I have already claimed it to be horrible.  (See the beauty in this?)  Naturally, I aspire to be a dang-hoppin’-good electric pop harpist, but in the meantime… I do what I can.

Anyway.  The harp is a very versatile instrument, and things can only improve as the harp matures with use in the pop environment.  The harp is increasingly being used in alt or indie rock, pop rock, or even rock bands (or should be), and more harpists now sing with their harp than ever before.  Enjoy the ride.

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ABOUT ME:   I have played harp for many weddings and films.  Whether you desire the sound of a traditional harp for your film or wedding; ambient or incidental music for a soundtrack or backing track; or want a performer of alternative music and/or pop-rock songs, I hope you will explore what I have to offer. 

Click on the links at right to see/hear:

• Filmscoring samples
• Singing covers like ”Clocks” by Coldplay or “Teen Spirit” by Nirvana
• Traditional music for weddings
• A ”music video comic book” I am working on called The Story of Dick’s Brain.

 Here’s a recording of “I’m Yours” by Jason Mranz on the harp.

You can also find me on YouTube.

 Thank you for visiting. 

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 ”The willow tree plays the water like a harp.”  –Ramon Gomez de la Serna, d. 1963

“What are they tuning — a HARP?”  –Kurt Cobain, d. 1994