Julia Haines Music

The harp is an instrument of great beauty, and I love to play with beauty.

—Julia Haines, musician, composer and harper

Julia Haines is a contemporary bardic harper, an independent composer, a multi-instrumentalist, teacher, and music therapist.

I love to make music that showcases the fusion of my interests in traditional, classical, improvisational, experimental and contemporary music. Having studied with some great musicians of traditional, jazz improvisation and new music, these influence my unique approach to the lever harp.

A first prize winner for harp and voice at the O’Carolan Festival, Keadue, Ireland, she’s been called  a “harper among harpists” and a ‘hip harper” by the Irish press.

It's harp music like you've never heard it before, certainly not this side of the pearly gates. Celtic harpist and composer Julia Haines employs elements of traditional Eastern and world music; the results are songs of immense grace and power.
—Philadelphia Inquirer
Exceptionally beautiful ....Haines commands the celtic harp with grace and power…
—H. Schneider, Sound Choice Magazine
A stunning, evocative, radiant, musical work...Highly Recommended...Chosen as one of the top 24 albums.......
—Ladyslipper Catalogue and Resource Guide
...Ah/Aeolian Associations...beautiful, evocative and filled with a radiance and energy that was both intelligent and primordial.
—John Clauser, Yellow Springs Institute for Contemporary Studies and the Arts
...Shimmering harp sounds... There is a reason why angels are depicted playing harps, and Haines' performance gave testimony to what that reason might be.
—Woodstock Times, Woodstock NY

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