Live harp can change the feeling of an occasion from the moment the first guests walk through the door. The sound of live music creates anticipation for what is ahead, while the harp itself becomes part of the setting they have arrived to enjoy. Throughout the event, the performance can accompany important moments, favorite songs, and the time everyone spends together.
I provide professional harp music for weddings and events in Danville and throughout Eastern Illinois. With thousands of selections and special requests available, each performance can be shaped around music that is meaningful to you while giving your guests the experience of hearing it performed live.
Music for the Wedding Ceremony
A wedding ceremony offers several opportunities to make music part of the experience. Prelude selections begin as guests arrive, followed by music for family seating, the wedding party, and the grand entrance. The recessional provides a joyful musical conclusion before the celebration continues.
I time each processional selection to the entrance it accompanies. The music continues as everyone makes their way down the aisle, and once they are in place, I bring the piece to a natural musical conclusion. Each subsequent selection begins at the appropriate point in the ceremony, allowing the music to follow the actual timing of the day.
Your ceremony program can bring together traditional wedding music, classical selections, contemporary songs, cultural traditions, and personal favorites chosen especially for the occasion.
Cocktails & Dinner with Live Harp
The wedding reception creates an entirely different opportunity for live music. During cocktails and dinner, guests can hear a broader range of the harp repertoire as they mingle, dine, and enjoy the celebration.
This is also a wonderful time to incorporate favorite artists and songs that may not appear elsewhere in the wedding. With thousands of selections available, the program can move across styles and eras throughout the reception, giving guests plenty of variety while keeping the music personal to you.
An Extensive & Varied Harp Repertoire
One of the pleasures of hearing harp live is discovering just how much music can be played on the instrument. My repertoire spans centuries of music as well as songs, scores, and themes from contemporary popular culture. Special requests add even more possibilities.
Selections include:
· Traditional wedding favorites & processionals
· Classical repertoire & familiar concert works
· Contemporary pop & popular songs
· Jazz standards & American songbook favorites
· Celtic tunes & folk selections
· Broadway songs, film scores, & television themes
· Multicultural & world repertoire
· Video game themes & soundtrack selections
· Hymns & sacred favorites
· Holiday & seasonal music
A single performance can draw from throughout the collection, bringing together music you already love and selections that may surprise your guests when they hear them played on harp.
Harp Music for Parties & Professional Events
Weddings are only one setting for live harp. I also perform for corporate and social events throughout Danville and Eastern Illinois, including company receptions, client dinners, private parties, anniversaries, retirement celebrations, and holiday gatherings.
The musical program is planned for the individual occasion and audience. An extensive repertoire provides flexibility throughout the event, while the presence of a live musician gives guests another element of the gathering to experience and enjoy.
Solo Harp & Ensemble Possibilities
Solo harp is a complete musical experience in its own right, pairing the instrument’s distinctive sound and visual presence with an extensive repertoire that can move easily among many musical styles.
Harp can also be joined by violin, cello, flute, organ, trumpet, or vocalists for duets and larger ensembles, creating a fuller sound and additional musical possibilities. Other instrumentation is available as well.
Plan Harp Music for Your Danville Wedding or Event
Music can connect different parts of an occasion, from what guests hear as they first arrive to the selections associated with moments they will remember afterward. Live performance makes those choices part of the experience as it is happening.
Check availability for your Danville wedding or event and receive a personalized quote. I would be delighted to provide live harp music for the occasion!
Danville & Eastern Illinois Harpist
Live harp music is available throughout the surrounding area:
Allerton · Alvin · Belgium · Bismarck · Catlin · Danville · Fairmount · Fithian · Georgetown · Henning · Hoopeston · Indianola · Muncie · Oakwood · Potomac · Rankin · Ridge Farm · Rossville · Sidell · Tilton · Westville
Wedding and event harp services also extend to nearby Illinois cities including Champaign-Urbana, Paris, Paxton, & Watseka, as well as Fowler, Newport, & Williamsport, Indiana.
I also provide live harp music for destination weddings and events throughout the United States and internationally. Some celebrations bring everyone together far beyond the place they call home, and I welcome the opportunity to make live harp part of those plans! Feel free to inquire, wherever your event will take place.
Live Harp Music in Danville
Your wedding or event is a chance to bring together the people, music, and details that matter to you. Live harp can be part of that experience from the first guests arriving through the moments everyone has come together to celebrate.
When you are ready to begin planning your wedding or event music, send me a message. I would love to hear what you are envisioning and help bring it to life through the harp!