The High Museum

Last year I had only met one autoharp player, and then met 2 and then 500 this year, and now another one, and I jammed again with a violist/fiddle player.

Tuesday I meet Kyle in Marietta for folk music jamming.

Music

One way people connect is through music, so I am playing on some Sundays at the benches around 9 am near the red caboose on the Silver Comet Trail. I went today, but I didn't talk to very many people. I will always have a friend with me. I will not go alone, because that is what this is about. Safety awareness and connection. I am not paranoid that all the world is dangerous, and that all men are dangerous. But women don't run around abducting, raping, and beating men and women up, you know? Most men are very trustworthy and safe, but there are just enough men to make it worth it to aware and careful around men. In other words be with other people. Loners are much more likely targets.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87a4DYUFlzE A free excerpt read by the author every day. Come to this site to get the link if you want.

Right to Hike, Inc. has a program for renting GPS devices. This is because within 3 hours of being abducted 75% are dead.

I play the autoharp and would love people to jam with me. A uke, a guitar, a dobro, all are welcome.

Fear Thou Not

Part of my non profit is connecting, and I do that with music. I am playing the autoharp on the Silver Comet Trail on Sunday mornings around 9 or 10 am unless it is raining.

Find me with an autoharp on the benches near the red caboose, across the street. I probably need to be near the Red Caboose. It would be nice to sit on the deck of the red caboose, but I am not going to try! One day I will see the sheriff deputies sitting on that deck and relaxing!

Red Top Mountain

Go to Youtube.com and search for Charlotte Fairchild to hear some of the things I sang at Red Top Mountain. Murder on the Silver Comet Trail can be found at http://tinyurl.com/7yuczc
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June 24 to 29 I am going to Little Buffalo State Park in Pennsylvania for Mountain Laural Autoharp Gathering, or MLAG. Google this if you are curious!

If you do a search on Youtube.com and search for Charlotte Fairchild, you will find the songs I sing.


The first time I ever saw fine tuners. All three autoharp players learned something. Well, maybe Pat didn't. I did sing a song she never heard before. Someone I taught, a man who plays the banjo named Pat called me today to tell me he bought an autoharp and is going to play it. He paid $199.00 at a pawn shop in Acworth for almost a new OS21, and he said it came with two books and he already has a guitar tuner. It made me really happy for someone to take it up.

Red Top Mountain Dulcimer Autoharp

Howard McGee playing my diatonic and had never seen a diatonic before. Pat doesn't want to fool with them. With her 13 guitars, 3 harmonicas, 2 autoharps, piano and all the other instruments she has, I can understand completely! She taught me two big things. To hold my harp next to my good ear by holding it straight up instead of slanted Appalatian style, and to put stick um letters on the sides of the 'harp, the better to see you with, m'dear. She played very well even though she had a broken finger tip and played melody. She talked about Kittie Wells' music and gave me loads of names. I should have had a 007 tape recorder to learn better!

Howard McGee found out about the Red Top Mountain gathering by a post I put on cyberpluckers that was read by a Georgia southernautoharpers person who told him 2 people would be there. I only found out Pat would be there because I got nosy about who she was because she is listed on the Autoharp Quarterly as a teacher. We talked for a long time on the phone. She is a performer first and also teaches. She is busy.

I almost didn't make it because of chores like the dogs heartworm pill and getting a 'harp tuned. It was a long way to drive if the two people didn't show up. I did not jam with autoharpers. I jamed with a guitarist and a dulcimer player. Second time I jammed, and then I sang a lot. And I taught a whole lot.

Splash page

A good friend and relative of my husband offered to do a splash page for me. I have so many blogs and one website! I decided not to add anything else. I will add this blog so if anyone is interested, they can check out the other blogs I have.

http://www.icaco.blogspot.com (Indonesia)
http://www.arthavefun.blogspot.com (free art book by Florence Seymour)
http://www.fertileprayers.blogspot.com (commercial)
http://www.fprayers.blogspot.com
http://www.calender.blogspot.com (free calender recycling book)
http://www.kudzus.blogspot.com (free recipes)
http://www.wishlifecoach.blogspot.com
http://www.ionways.com/Liphart (commercial)
http://www.charharp.blogspot.com

Autoharp classes

Pictures of the sky by Bob Liphart (c) 2008

Picture of a rainbow by Bob Liphart (c) 2008





September 2008 the Boys and Girls Club tasted kudzu brownies, kudzu crock pot cake, and kudzu juice. They heard the kudzu song, and strummed. They heard Mama's Soup surprise, and O Sole Mio with the autoharps. They heard some other songs, as well, and we talked about signatures, notes, chords, and what is similar to the piano.