Concert and Workshop Schedule
Christina Tourin
Emerald Harp Productions
P.O. Box 333
Mt. Laguna, CA 91948
619-473-0008
THANK YOU TO ALL FOR COMING TO THE WORKSHOPS AND CONCERTS THIS PAST YEAR AND THANK YOU TO ALL THE ORGANIZERS.
Thank you for coming to check out my schedule. This coming year, I will be on these routes with my tour schedule. At many of the stops, I will be giving presenations at bookstores in the area. I have a delightful presentation for children as well as my evening concerts and array of workshops. If you do not see contact information beside the place, please check back as confirmations are now coming in. Also, if you are on this path and would like to suggest a place or help to arrange a workshop or concert, perhaps at a local church, please contact me at Harprealm@aol.com Since I am coming through, the travel expenses are nominal. All organizers receive a percentage of the intake plus free musical products.
April 27, Tampa, FL - contact: Sharon Stoll
May 2-5, San Francisco, CA - contact: Globe Sound Healing Center
May 10-12, Marina Del Rey, CA - contact: Discover Sound
May 30, Glendale, AZ
Concert at BORDERS
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May 31, Phoenix, AZ
Workshop afternoon - Arizona State University
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May 31, evening Concert - contact: Jocelyn Obermeyer
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June 1, Santa Fe, NM
WholeExpo - click here for information
June 2, Taos, NM
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June 4, Glenwood Springs, CO
Learn How to Play the Harp and Rainbow of Sound Ensemble workshops
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June5-7 Music Therapy Conference, Baltimore, MD
June 8 - Concerts 2-6 p.m. Calvary Church, Golden, CO
contact: Marianne Lounsbury
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June 10, Lincoln, NE
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June 12, Omaha, NE
contact: Karen Conoan
for poster information, click here
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June 13, Nauvoo, IL
contact: Irene Tukuafu
for poster information, click here
June 14, St. Charles, IL
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June 19, Medina Library - Medina, OH
Children's concert the afternnon of the 19th, Adult Concert in the evening
contact: http://www.medina.lib.oh.us
For poster info. click here
June 21, Oneida, NY
This is my birthday bash! Come to our workshop in Oneida and welcome
Bambi Niles back home and celebrate my birthday! Presents for everyone!
First United Methodist Church in Oneida, 116 W. Grove Street 1-5 p.m.
Workshop, Fun playing in Ensemble, presents for all!
Click on the name to contact: Bambi Niles
or Jennifer Byrne
June 22, Shelburne, VT
- Concert at the ALL SOULS INTERFAITH GATHERING in Shelburne, VT
click here for more information: Wendy Bratt
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June 23, Burlington, VT
June 29, 6:00 p.m. West Sumner Universalist Church, ME
Concert, Hymn Sing and Strawberry Shortcake Festival
click here to make a reservation: Pauline Kirschner
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July 5-12, Chartres, France
July 23, Amsterdam, Netherlands
http://worldharpcongress.org/
July 27-28, Glastonbury, England
Learn How to Play the Harp Workshop - Daisy Centre
August 2-9, Bath England
Module 1 of the International Harp Therapy Program
Click here for more information
August - Dorset, England - work with Rainbow of Sound in the
"Hole In The Wall" camps
August 30 - London, UK - Learn to Play Harp workshop
Contact Jayn Lee Millerr 020 8422 9308
September 6, Auburn, ME - Harp Workshop
Click here to contact organizer - Melanie Lee
September - East Coast Concert Tour and book signings
traveling through these states:
(if you are interested in organizing, please contact me by email)
Sept. 15 - Andover, Massachusettes
Sept. 16 -19, College Campuses in Vermont
Sept. 20 - Concert/workshop in Thetford, Vermont
Click here to contact organizer - Margaret Stephens
Sept. 21 - Concert/Workshop in Hillsdale, New York
Equinox Labyrinth Candlelit walk - 7 PM at the St. Bridget's Universal Prayer Garden
St. Bridget's Church, Rt. 22, Copake Falls, NY 7:00 p.m.
Workshop offering: The Celtic Circle of Music and Anamchara 1-5 p.m.
(4 CEUs for MHTP graduates)
Click here to contact organizer - Melinda Gardiner
The following states are open for events
Connecticut
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Virginia
September 28, Greensboro, NC - Harp Workshop
click here to make a reservation: Mary Ann Little
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October 2-9 - Module 2 Int'l Harp Therapy Program - Winston-Salem, NC
Click here for more information
October 10-12 - Featured performer with Janet Harbison and Pamela
Bruner at the Southeastern Harp Weekend - Asheville, NC
http://southeasternharps.com/
October 14-17 - Chicago
October 18, Chicago Harp Workshop
October 19-22 - Planetree Hospital Conference Presentations
Planetree.org
October 22- November 7 - Concerts and Book signings from Chicago
to California. Route includes stops in:
Illinois
October 25 Indiana
Workshop and Concert at William Rees Instruments - Rising Sun, Indiana
October 26 Louisville, KY
Missouri
Kansas
Colorado
New Mexico
Arizona
November 6-8 - Concerts and book signings, Phoenix, AZ
November 21-23, American Music Therapy Conference, St. Louis, MO
click here for information
Concerts consist of Rainbow of Sound presentations for children at
Borders and Barnes and Noble Bookstores as well as independent bookstores
cross-country. In addition, regular Arts Council harp concerts and hospital
presentations are being offered.
If you are interested in sponsoring a workshop or concert on the above
listed route, please contact Harprealm@aol.com Thank you.
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTIONS
New: A Rainbow of Sound Musical Theatre Special for Children
A Rainbow of Sound features the Emerald Harp story. This is a delightful story that takes place in Scoltand. Children have the opportunity to participate and play the harp during the program. Christina Tourin, dressed as the fairy queen, has the "elfin" children playing and creating beautiful harmonies on six Rainbow colored harps while children listen and watch the story unfold.
New: The Power of Harp Therapy Enhances our Creativity During Changing Times
Find out how harp therapy is being used around the world to unleash creative potential. There are five distinct qualities that Harp Therapy Practitioners address when administering therapeutic music. Christina will show you how you can instantaneously create harmonic music. She will delight you with a concert of diversified genres of music.
New: Develop a New Career: Introduction to "Rainbow of Sound" Facilitating Program
Would you love to have a new career? There is a way! Christina has developed a new training program that lines up a perfect template for anyone to follow. Everything is provided in the Rainbow of Sound Facilitating Program including lessons, contracts, and recital materials. During this workshop, she will demonstrate how to implement the Rainbow of Sound Harp Ensembles that are beginning all around the world. She will show you how to use this program in therapeutic settings and how you can supplement your income or develop a new one. No harp needed for this lecture. For beginning to advanced harp players.
1. CELTIC CIRCLE OF MUSIC with the ANCIENT CELTIC TECHNIQUE OF MASSAGE.
The harpers of Ancient Ireland were required to have three strains of music at their command: Suantraighe - to create slumber and repose, Goltraighe - to bring about valour and bring a person to tears and Gentraighe - to set the foot a-tapping and create a joyous atmosphere. Working at San Diego Hospice, Christina Tourin works with aromatherapy/massage therapists who perform an Ancient technique of Celtic massage while she plays the circle of music around the patient. Find out the qualities of these strains and how to link the music in a seamless journey. Learn how to modulate from one feeling of music to another. A set of modulations will be given to each participant. For all levels of players, non-harpists and health-care providers.
2. JOIN IN Workshops
JOIN IN with Christina Tourin on music from around the world. Her JOIN IN Series features music with CD accompaniment of some of the best back up musicians in the country. Play music from Finland, Ireland, Scotland, Hawaii, Mexico, France, Spain, Isle of Man, Italy and Austria. Hear yourself play with an ensemble. This workshop is for all levels - very beginners to the most advanced players. It will be lots of fun.
3. INDIVIDUALIZING MUSIC
Learn how to select music, play the music and how music affects us on a physical, emotional and spiritual level. This workshop is the underlying basis for training in Therapeutic Music as used in Harp Therapy Programs. This workshop is for harpists, musicians, non-musicians, caregivers and those interested in finding out how to choose music for either patients or for the audiences they perform for. Instruments are not necessary for this workshop.
4. USING THE HARP AS A THERAPEUTIC TOOL IN MUSIC THERAPY
Christina will present the material from her newly released book: Harp Therapy - A Cradle of Sound and discuss the elements of Harp Therapy, the current research, and demonstration of using the harp therapeutically. The workshops will also contain some selections of performance. She will be available for booksignings after the event.
5. MEETING AND MASTERING THE MODES
Use ingenious, lever-free variations on scales you've known all your life to add immediate variety, interest, and emotional range to your harping. How to use modal accompaniment patterns with improvisation to create new music, and to get much more from the pieces already in your repertoire. Create your own music without relying the the written page. Modes are a musical language of infinite resource. Even rank beginners will love this! Intermediate and advanced harpers will learn numerous ways to freshen the music they know and to produce satisfying new work. Harp teachers will find it invaluable.
6. SOUND, the HARP and the CHINESE FIVE ELEMENTS for Healing - workshop
Christina Tourin will present information on the Chinese Five Elements and the corresponding five modes that musicians can use to balance Wood, Fire, Earth, Water and Metal energies. The instrument focused on is the small harp but this workshop can be used by any musician.
When we understand the Chinese approach to health - that of achieving and maintaining balance - we can begin to see how the different modes, whether Chinese or Western, influence our emotional lives. The musician may harmonize with the mood of a patient or activate a change in the patient's emotional state by choosing a mode to contrast.
Participants will receive 5 pieces of music written in each of the Chinese modes.
7. LEARN TO PLAY THE HARP
You will leave the course having learned the basic fundamentals of playing a small harp and composing a piece of music. Don't miss this truly inspirational day. Learning to play harp is easy and fun!
8. PRIVATE LESSONS
During Christina's travels, she is often available for Private lessons.
9. CONCERTS
Christina will perform a collection of music from the British Isles, Scandanavia, South America and her own Original Compositions. In addition to her lively tunes, many people will have the opportunity to walk a labyrinth to her soothing music.
10. WALKING THE LABYRINTH
Why the astonishing and sudden popularity of the labyrinth? Walking the labyrinth fulfills six important contemporary needs: deepening spirituality; inwardness and connection to soul; access to intuition and creativity; simplicity; for integration of body and spirit; and intimacy and community. The labyrinth addresses all of these six human needs, transforming the lives of those who take the time to walk its circuits.
The labyrinth is a container for life, life in all its glories and griefs, its heartaches and joys. The labyrinth welcomes all experiences into its circuits, teaching us to enter more deeply into the experience of life itself.
Walk for ILLUMINATION, Walk for Gratitude (Thanksgiving) , Walk for Celebrations (Birthdays, Anniversaries), Walk for the Seasons (the Solsctice), Walk the Labyrinth for JOY.
http://playharp.com (for lots of fun!)
http://harprealm.com (for Harp Therapy - new schedule now up)
http://www.emeraldharp.com (for personal site)
For more information on the above workshops contact Christina Tourin
through our contact form
PAST CONCERTS - 2007
Concert - Oxford-Cambridge Club - London, England April 24, 2007
Mystic Fayre - Penzance, Cornwall, England - April 27
Keynote Workshop at the Sound Symposium - San Francisco, California - May 10-14
Big Sky, Montana Big Sky Folk Harp Festival - July 4-7
Cody, Wyoming - July 9
Waverly, Iowa - July 11
Milwaukee, Wisconsin - July 12-13
Geneva, Illinois - July 14
Somerset, NJ - Somerset Folk Harp Festival - July 19-22
Evansville, IN - July 29-30
San Diego - IHTP Module 2 - August 12-18
Bend, OR - Anam Cara Project - August 20-25
Concerts and workshops in Japan - September 7-17
Module 2 - Toyko, Japan - September 21-23 and 28-30
Williamsburg, VA - Planetree Conference - October 3-6
Montreal - October 21-27
Sound Symposium - Santa Fe, New Mexico - November 8-11
Harp Therapy Workshop - Netherlands - November 24-25
Harp Therapy Workshop - Brittany, France - December 1-3
Angel Conference - Glastonbury, England - December 8-9
HERE ARE SOME PICTURES FROM THE WORKSHOPS IN 2007
Netherlands workshop at Dreamsharps
