I started playing the harp fourteen years ago, originally classically trained (French style) with a rich Celtic traditional streak, then moving to jazz. I now play almost exclusively jazz and contemporary music - pretty much anything from Gershwin to Joni Mitchell, Miles Davis to James Brown...
My harp is a Little Big Blue made by Camac Harp company. It's fully electro-acoustic, with pick-ups on each string and a full soundboard: this makes for great concert sound as well as funky effects when you plug in wah-pedals and so on.
I played for a long time at weddings in Vancouver with the group Music From the Mists, and with CU Jazz in a variety of jazz combos on campus (we have clips on YouTube!). While living in Los Angeles I was a regular at the famous Midtones Jam in Chinatown. Stay tuned for playing news around New Jersey ...
For more information and sound clips check out my Myspace site.
Image Credit: John Spencer, SWRI.