The 'new' normal

Welcome to the new normal - hopefully you'll have found yours by now.

It's taken me a little while to find my new normal and like everyone else, I have good days and bad days. Good days include keeping to a routine and keeping myself busy.

Highlights for me are the Virtual Ceilidhs that I host every Sunday evening online. It's a lovely gathering of professional and non-professional harpists on a very low pressure basis - join a session as and when you want to - and we all play one short piece. It's a lovely way to connect by listening and sharing music with each other.

I continue to be so grateful during this lockdown that I live in a house with a garden and that we are coming into warmer weather in the UK. With four adults in my house, and no dedicated private harp room it is great to be able to retreat to my shed to play my lever harp.

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This is my arrangement for lever harp of the very beautiful Gabriel's Oboe by Ennio Morricone which I performed in my @scalaradiouk session last week. . This arrangement is intermediate level with only one lever change to do at the end and the sheet music is available for you to play in your own home or shed here https://bit.ly/2KfcfGl links to all my other arrangements for lever harp are available on my website here www.lauren-scott-harp.co.uk/arrangements.html . I've pimped out my shed as a harp bolthole so I can play without disturbing the rest of my household as i dont have a dedicated harp room. I'm very, very grateful to have a garden â–¡ although today for some reason it's really noisy down the bottom of my garden! . love and light to all x . #harp #leverharp #harfe #harpe #arpa #celticharp #morricone #gabrielsoboe #filmmusic #practicalharpist #shed #ukharp #harpril2020 #resilience

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