The first of my double bill of harping activities this weekend was near Sudbury with members of the Clarsach Society south-east branch. Robyn came along but as has moved up to a pedal harp wasn't able to bring hers but she enjoyed listening and helping some of the younger members and took a few photos.
As well as Anne, the rep for the branch, there were four younger students there, aged 5 to 9 and an array of harps right from a tiny lap harp to mine, which was the biggest. As well as the various sizes our harps had a great range of colour, shape, and design. One of the harps had a lovely Celtic knotwork decoration.
We had a lovely afternoon playing through easy ensemble pieces with Anne suggesting easy accompaniments for the children which they learned remarkably well by ear. Each of us played one of our own solo pieces we had been working on and finished the afternoon with a run-through of the group pieces. It was a little different to last time where there were three adults but it was lovely to see how much the youngsters were enjoying their harps. Three currently study with Danielle Perret and the fourth, on the lap harp, will be starting lessons with Danielle shortly.
Robyn and I had a slow drive back stopping at one of the village churchs to have a look round while the weather was good. I had a very short practise session when I got in and I can now look forward to my performance in the Cambridge Music Festival which takes place tomorrow.
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