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 LAST YEAR AND
THANK YOU TO ALL THE ORGANIZERS.

Thank you for coming to check out my schedule.

This summer, I'll be doing another European tour in Scotland, England, Ireland, Switzerland, Germany, Netherlands and Italy. Our new on-line training for the Harp Therapy Program will start again in September 2011. However, the PREP SCHOOL is now open. For training schedule, please go to HarpRealm.com for the full schedule.

If you are on any of these paths 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@gmail.com Since I am coming through, the travel expenses are nominal. All organizers receive a percentage of the intake plus free musical products.

UPCOMING SCHEDULE FOR 2011

December 11, 2010 - 10 am - 4:00 p.m. - Maui
"NEW DEVELOPMENTS in THERAPEUTIC HARP and MODULTATING MODES in the CELTIC CIRCLE of MUSIC"
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March 26-27, 2011 - Melbourne, Australia
"CONVERGENCE" - Conference on Therapeutic Harp Music, Music Thanatology and Music Therapy followed by the ESM Module of the Int'l Harp Therapy Program
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April 7-12, 2011 - Belo Horizonte and Sao Paul, Brazil
Presentations on Therapeutic Harp Music
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May 21-27, 2011 - San Diego, CA
Int'l Harp Therapy Regional Conference on the 21st and 22nd
followed by the ESM Module of the Int'l Harp Therapy Program
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July 8, 2011 - All Souls Epsicopal Church, Spear St. South Burlington, VT
7:00 p.m. - Concert with Tina Tourin and Martha Gallagher - $10.00 sugg. donation
July 9-10, 2011 -Int'l Harp Therapy Regional Conference
July 11-15, 2011 - ESM Module of the Int'l Harp Therapy Program
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July 31, 2011 - Vancouver, Canada
Int'l Harp Therapy Regional Conference on the 31st
after the World Harp Congress
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August 13-19, 2011 - Werkhoven (nr Utrecht), Netherlands
Int'l Harp Therapy Regional Conference on the 13th and 14th
followed by the ESM Module of the Int'l Harp Therapy Program
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September, 2011 - Japan
Presentations on Therapeutic Harp Music
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October 5-6, 2011 - Winston-Salem, NC
Int'l Harp Therapy Regional Conference
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October 7-8, 2011 - Asheville, NC
Presenting at the Southeastern Harp Festival
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October 29-31, 2011 - Derbyshire, UK
Int'l Harp Therapy Regional Conference on the 31st
after the Derbyshire International Harp Festival
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WORKSHOP DESCRIPTIONS

New Harp Therapy and Heartmath - the proof of the pudding'!
Learn and understand how the mind and heart are connected. With the aid of a biofeedback program, you can now witness how the Five Qualities of Individualized music can take you out of your tense and frenzied red zone and put you into a calm and relaxed green zone. Doctors, nurses, scientists and the curious are now able to see how music has this beneficial effect. For harp players, see how effective your own playing is to achieve these results with your patients and clients. You will see what happens when you match the breathing tempo, the mood, the resonant tone, the genre of music desired and how certain intervals can make all the difference in helping a person to find that soothing place.

New: EICSE - Divine Inspiration
Christina’s trip to the Isle of Iona in Scotland is the inspiration for this workshop, centered around the topic of Eicse, a place where wisdom, poetry and knowledge were revealed in ancient lore. This workshop space of knowledge and wisdom will help you derive the inspiration for your heartsong with Christina. Learn a beautiful traditional tune (Enya style!) and then add your own flair while Christina shares the tools of memorization, arranging, composition and secrets of music Eicse.

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 - 2010

PAST CONCERTS - 2009

PAST CONCERTS - 2008

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

Brittany, France Workshop

Japan Module 2 RHHP-IHTP JP

Montreal Workshop

Milwaukee Workshop Leaders

Williamsburg, VA Youth Harp Group

PAST CONCERTS - 2006
Concert Tour in Japan - May 18-June 7, 2006
Hokkaido, Kyushu,Tokyo, Sapporo, Kumamoto, Fukuoka, Nagoya, Kyoto
June 22-23, 2006 - Concerts at the Sawyer Foundation in Greene, Maine
June 21, 2006 - New Castle, NH
July 3-18, 2006 - Concerts and teaching in Fairbanks, Alaska
September-December, 2006 - Concert Tourin in England, Ireland, and Norway

Japan NICE Choir with harp accompaniment

Harp Therapy comes to Oslo, Norway!

PAST CONCERTS - 2005

San Francisco, CA - February 5th
Honolulu, Oahu, HI - February 11-12
Maui, HI - February 12-19
Oahu, HI - February 19-25
Asheville, NC - IHTP Module - March 28-April 1
Richmond, VA - Virginia Harp Center - April 4
Shipston-on-Stour, Holycombe Center, England - May 7
Filkins, Glos, England - Clive Morley Harps and St. Peters Church May 8
Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England - Scarborough Library - May 14 (12:30)
Whitby, North Yorkshire, England - St. Hilda's Church - May 14 (7:30 p.m.)
Tokyo, Japan - May 26-29
Salt Lake City, UT - Lyon Healy Harp Therapy Gathering - June 14-18
Big Sky, MT- ISFHC HarpConn 2005 - workshops/concert July 6-10
Dublin, Ireland - July 17-24 World Harp Congress
Ireland IHTP Module 2 - July 24-30

Whitby, North Yorkshire, England Concert with Liz Westhead

Tina Tourin with Big Joe Burrell and the Unknown Blues Band
a.k.a. Kilamanjaro