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Harp Festivals

Inspiring Performance at Globe Sound Healing Conference

Cymber Quinn
Cymber Quinn offers “harp blessings” at the conference, which was attended by about 250 people on Sunday. (Sherry LaVars/Special to Marin Independent Journal)

What a blessing to be able to perform at the Globe Sound Healing Conference 2016, at the Marin Headland YMCA. I played in the Sound Garden in extraordinarily beautiful weather.

Usually, the headlands are windy, foggy, or cold, and often all three. It was a rare treat to have a warm sunny day, though my listeners were pretty baked by the time I was finished playing.

I performed “Seasons of the Soul” for this experienced sound healing crowd. Normally, I play the pieces in order, but always with a level of improvisation that allows me to respond to the energy in the room. This time, this group needed the concert played out of order, which was a fun and challenging experience. I had to keep track of all that I had played, so I knew what to do last.

Pro tip for harpists: Always dress well, even in your traveling clothes. Because you might forget your performance outfit and have to perform in what you are wearing, as I did at this gig.

For more information about the Globe Sound Healing Conference and Festival, here’s the link…>>  https://soundhealingcenter.com/conference/

And here’s the link to the full article by the Marin Independent Journal…>>   https://www.marinij.com/2016/09/25/sound-advice-dispensed-at-marin-headlands-health-confab/

 

 

SATURDAY SEPT. 8, 10 AM: QUEEN LILI’UOKALANI BIRTHDAY FESTIVAL

Please join me and my flutist, Kathy Dorn, next Saturday, September 8 at 10 am in Lili’uokalani Gardens in downtown Hilo. Kathy and I will be opening the He Hali`a Aloha No Lili`uokalani festival, playing original tunes composed by the last monarch of Hawaii, Queen Lili’uokalani. I will also be playing during the Ho’okipa ceremony, where Hawaiian dignitaries will offer gifts in honor of the Queen.

 

The annual festival is held on the occasion of the Queen’s birthday and is a free family fun event all day long. Featuring children’s activities, entertainment, craft and demonstration booths, food trucks, tea ceremony, and mass hula. (I once danced in this festival about 10 years ago. Now I feel incredibly blessed to perform the Queen’s music.)

 

FOR MORE INFORMATION

Cymber Lily Quinn, harp meditations, Hilo HawaiiThis event is co-sponsored with County of Hawaii Parks & Recreation Department Culture & Education Division and Lili`uokalani Trust. For more information, visit the event’s Facebook page at: https://www.facebook.com/events/1857406794554886/

SATURDAY SEPT. 8, 10 AM: QUEEN LILI’UOKALANI BIRTHDAY FESTIVAL

Please join me and my flutist, Kathy Dorn, next Saturday, September 8 at 10 am in Lili’uokalani Gardens in downtown Hilo. Kathy and I will be opening the He Hali`a Aloha No Lili`uokalani festival, playing original tunes composed by the last monarch of Hawaii, Queen Lili’uokalani. I will also be playing during the Ho’okipa ceremony, where Hawaiian dignitaries will offer gifts in honor of the Queen.

The annual festival is held on the occasion of the Queen’s birthday and is a free family fun event all day long. Featuring children’s activities, entertainment, craft and demonstration booths, food trucks, tea ceremony, and mass hula. (I once danced in this festival about 10 years ago. Now I feel incredibly blessed to perform the Queen’s music.)

 

Cymber Lily Quinn, harp meditations, Hilo Hawaii
Queen Lili’uokalani, composer

Monarch and Talented Composer

Like all royals of her day, she received a solid musical education in the Western tradition from the missionaries who arrived on Hawaiian shores. The Queen showed particular talent and composed more than 300 tunes in her lifetime, many of them while she was under house-arrest in the I’olani Palace.

Kathy and I will be playing old favorites, like “Aloha ‘Oe” and “Sanoe.” And some that we played earlier this year at the Palace Theatre in the Ho’okia’i: Lili’uokalani, like a love song for the forest of Puna and a little ode to a water sprinkler…

 

 

For more information

Cymber Lily Quinn, harp meditations, Hilo HawaiiThis event is co-sponsored with County of Hawaii Parks & Recreation Department Culture & Education Division and Lili`uokalani Trust. For more information, visit the event’s Facebook page at: https://www.facebook.com/events/1857406794554886/

 

 

 

 

Sept. 8, 10 am: Queen Lili’uokalani Birthday Festival

Cymber Lily Quinn, harp meditations, Hilo Hawaii
Kathy and I, playing in Lili’uokalani Gardens, downtown Hilo.

Please join me and my flutist, Kathy Dorn, on Saturday, September 8 at 10 am in Lili’uokalani Gardens in downtown Hilo. Kathy and I will be opening the He Hali`a Aloha No Lili`uokalani festival, playing original tunes composed by the last monarch of Hawaii, Queen Lili’uokalani. I will also be playing during the Ho’okipa ceremony, where Hawaiian dignitaries will offer gifts in honor of the Queen.

The annual festival is held on the occasion of the Queen’s birthday, and is a free family fun event all day long. Featuring children’s activities, entertainment, craft and demonstration booths, food trucks, tea ceremony, and mass hula. (I once danced in this festival about 10 years ago. Now I feel incredibly blessed to perform the Queen’s music.)

Monarch and Talented Composer

Cymber Lily Quinn, harp meditations, Hilo Hawaii
Queen Lili’uokalani, composer

Like all royals of her day, she received a solid musical education in the Western tradition from the missionaries who arrived on Hawaiian shores. The Queen showed particular talent, and composed more than 300 tunes in her lifetime, many of them while she was under house-arrest in the I’olani Palace.

Kathy and I will be playing old favorites, like “Aloha ‘Oe” and “Sanoe.” And some that haven’t been heard in a 100 years, like a little ode to a water sprinkler, and a love song for the forest of Puna – the place where lava has been recently flowing.

For more information

Cymber Lily Quinn, harp meditations, Hilo HawaiiThis event is co-sponsored with County of Hawaii Parks & Recreation Department Culture & Education Division and Lili`uokalani Trust. For more information, visit the event’s Facebook page at: https://www.facebook.com/events/1857406794554886/

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