Anne Sullivan hosts a special holiday edition (Dec 23, 2024) of the Practicing Harp Happiness Podcast featuring roughly 30 minutes of holiday harp music drawn from her recordings. Selections come from her solo CD Breakforth and the flute-and-harp duo Christmas Echoes (Sparks, with Joan Marsh), with some arrangements by Scott Lavender. The episode promotes the two CDs (physical and downloadable) available in the Harp Mastery Shop, links to a curated Spotify playlist, and points listeners to show notes listing the track selections. The spoken intro offers holiday greetings and a preview that the podcast will return the next week with New Year inspiration.
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Hi, I'm Anne Sullivan and welcome to our annual holiday edition of the Practicing Harp Happiness Podcast. Today's episode is simply 30 minutes or so of some holiday music taken from my recordings. Whether you sit and listen to it or put it on as a background to your holiday preparations and celebrations, I hope you find that it adds to the peace and joy of your holiday. Now these selections are tracks from my break 4th CD, a solo CD of music I arranged and recorded and also from my Christmas Echo cd, music that I recorded with my flutist friend Joan Marsh as the flute and harp duo Sparks. Joan and I have enjoyed a decades long collaboration and this particular CD of Christmas and classical music also features arrangements by my friend Scott Lavender who is Music director for the renowned singer Johnny Mathis. Now you can find Both of these CDs, the Breakforth and Christmas Echoes in both physical and downloadable versions in our Harp Mastery Shop. The show notes for this episode list each selection on today's program and you'll also find a link to a playlist I created on Spotify which features harp music for the holidays performed by me and by other harpists as well. The podcast returns next week with some inspiration to help you get a great start to a new year of harping. But for now, best wishes from me and all the Heart Mastery team for a joyous, peaceful and music filled holiday. May beauty and blessings be yours at this special time and in the coming new year. Now just sit back and listen.