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Somerset Harp Conference 2022

Somerset 2022 the in person version takes place July 21-24, 2022.

Somerset Online takes place July 1 – October 31, 2022.

For more information: https://www.somersetharpfest.com/index.shtml

Mary Radspinner will be giving 2 workshops online July 30 (Saturday) and July 31 (Sunday).

Mary Radspinner began harp studies with Jeanne Henderson in the Milwaukee Public Schools. She later taught public school music herself before moving to Houston where she freelanced and subbed with the Houston Symphony and Ballet orchestras. Mary has served as regional director of the American Harp Society, president of the Scottish Harp Society and the ISFHC (International Society of Folk Harpers & Craftsmen), and an editor-in-chief of the Folk Harp Journal. She is familiarly known for running Afghan Press and Melody’s Traditional Music in Houston, which she co-owns with her husband John Gill. Afghan Press Music for the Harp represents a wide range of arrangers and composers from the 20th and 21st centuries.

Presenter website: Afghan Press

Business of Harping: become an entrepreneur | Type: Lecture| Level: Any| Method: LIVE 07/30/22 3-4:30pm
Join Mary, co-owner of Afghan Press and Melody’s Traditional Music, for a lively give-and-take discussion on thinking ‘outside the soundbox’ on the possibilities and earning potential in being a career harpist or harpist supporter. Join the discussion about the many contributions you can make to the harp world in any capacity, at any level. Explore what else you can do besides playing weddings.

Business of Music Publishing | Type: Lecture| Level: Any| Method: LIVE 07/31/22 3-4:30pm
Mary Radspinner, co-owner of Afghan Press and Melody’s Traditional Music, will talk about what it takes to create and publish your own music. She’ll cover the many situations that come up during the process of writing, arranging and publishing your own or others’ harp music. Here are just some of the topics she’ll cover in this fast-paced 90-minute workshop: creating harp-able arrangements, desktop publishing and music editing software, proofreading, what you do after the arrangements are done, cover and binding considerations, PDF music, pricing and sending samples. She’ll answer what Net 30 is and much more.

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Mary Radspinner

Mary is the current website person for Melody's. She has held positions in various symphony orchestras, large and small, throughout the Midwest and Texas. She freelanced in the Houston area from 1983 – 1994. Mary was director of music/organist at St. Therese Catholic church in Milwaukee where she also taught harp and piano for the Milwaukee Public Schools. She’s been the staff pianist for Waller (TX) ISD, and currently has a small studio of piano and harp students. She is also the founder of “Harp Teachers Gathering” – a community of and for harp teachers, and as editor of Afghan Press Music for the Harp, she also chairs a Zoom Publishing Group. Mary is also a member of the Irish Fest (Milwaukee) Peace and Justice orchestra. She has a B.M. in music ed and applied harp from Alverno College, Milwaukee, WI. She has studied with Jeanne Henderson, Louise Trotter and Paula Page.
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Here at Melody’s we offer a wide array of music books and accessories.  In the music book category, you may have a choice between PDFs (or MP3s) and paper books. If there is a choice, you are required to click either the paper version or PDF version before you can put an item into your cart. There should be no shipping charge for download music.  If there are physical products in your cart at the same time, your total will reflect shipping for those physical items.

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If you created an account with us, you can also find your downloads by going to “My Account” and clicking on the “Downloads” link.  We highly recommend that you create an account so that you can refer to your order history whenever you want.

Depending on your computer settings, when you click on your download link, 1 –  it may open automatically, 2 – it may go into your “downloads” folder, or 3 – your computer may prompt you to “save as”. 

If you have a problem with your downloads, please contact us at MelodyTradMusic@gmail.com  for assistance. Because our website contains so many titles, on occasion we have overlooked uploading a PDF here or there.  When you notify us of this, we make the correction immediately.  Please note that downloads are not “returnable.”

PDF DOWNLOADS

Depending on your computer settings, when you click on your download link, 1 –  it may open automatically, 2 – it may go into your “downloads” folder, or 3 – your computer may prompt you to “save as”.  If you can’t find your PDF, look in your “downloads” folder first.  The title of the PDF may not match the title of the book, so you may want to change the title to what you will remember. After you have located your download, please either remember that it is in your “downloads” folder, or better yet, move it to another folder on your computer with a name that you will remember.

Your respect of the copyright laws will help support the musicians and arrangers who created this music, and will encourage more harp music to be produced in the future. Please do not make multiple copies to pass on to others. You can help keep downloadable harp music viable and available by encouraging your students, friends, and relatives to purchase their own copies. Thank you for your assistance in this endeavor.

mp3 DOWNLOADS

On our website, folkharp.com, we offer a wide selection of paper and download music. We were always in a quandary about publications having several parts, or that include sound files. After realizing that we can place multiple files into one folder and “zip” it up, we are now able to offer book + cd options.

What we do: sound files and the PDF book are placed into a folder and zipped. The zipped folder is inserted into the product on the back end of the web site.

What you receive: after you purchase, you receive a zipped folder. This is a folder that literally has a picture of a zipper on it, indicating there is more than one document in the folder.

What you do with it: Generally by double clicking on the folder, it automatically opens up. The challenge lies in whether or not you have a program that unzips these folders. If you do, it is as simple as double clicking and the contents are revealed. Alternately, you can right click on the folder, which brings up choices, one of which is “open with” – you then click on your unzip program.

If you don’t have a program to unzip your files you’ll have a challenge! Recently I bought a small laptop for my zoom lessons. This laptop did not come with winzip, or any other kind of program that unzips these folders. The computer kept wanting me to purchase winzip for $29.  I found another program that does a great job, and it is free. 7-zip unzips all my compressed (zipped) folders! It is open source and you can find out more here:https://www.7-zip.org/

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