events
I love live acoustic music spaces. Indoor or outdoor. Inspired by the elements — sky, space, water — playing for listeners, meditators, creating music for ceremonies and gatherings.
Upcoming Events
Friday, June 13, 2025 | 7:30pm
I Shall Sing a New Song: Miriam
Composition by Julia Haines; vocals: Raechel Rosen, harp: Julia Haines. Offered during Shabbat Services at Kehillat Lev Shalem, the Woodstock Jewish Congregation, Woodstock, NY.
Spring through Summer 2025
Did You Ever Want to Play the Harp:
A Harp Pop-Up Experience
Explore the wonders of Harps! Join me, harper Julia Haines, at one or more of these hour long-sessions. I provide you with your own 22-stringed student harp, share some basic harp practices and guide you into the magic of making music through experimentation, free play, and sound games. No musical experience required!
These Harp Sessions are offered this Spring through Summer at two handy locations, the Kingston Library and the Olive Free Library.
Please register below.
This project is made possible with funds from the New York State Legislature and administered by Arts Mid-Hudson
Kingston Library Schedule + Registration
10am-10:45am sessions are for children 4 to 12 year olds; 11am – noon for teens and adults.
Olive Free Library Schedule + Registration
Please note: the first hour is for children and the second is for teens and adults.
Summer 2025 series | Rail Trail Cafe: Music in the Woods
Celebrating The Moon/A Muse
June 7 | 1:00–3:00 pm
Up River Trio presents Infinite Mysteries and more
July 12 | 1:00–3:00 pm
Julia Haines and Matoaka Little Eagle
August 2 | 5:00 –7:00pm
Julia Haines and Matoaka Little Eagle
September 21 | 1:00–3:00 pm
Julia Haines and Matoaka Little Eagle
Past Events
Saturday, October 19, 2024 | 2pm
Infinite Mysteries: A Work in Progress
Infinite Mysteries for Lever Harp, Accordion and Voices, explores the sonorities of harp, accordion and voice. The performance is held at the Olive Free Library, Shokan, NY 12494
This project is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by Arts Mid-Hudson.
Sunday, October 13, 2024 | time to be announced
HARP: Heal/Attend/Refresh/Presence: A Harp Meditation for Peace and Healing
The Harp improvisation offers a space, welcoming the listener into the present, connecting within, releasing and resting in a sound experience so you may silently reflect. May the music support you as you take time to welcome yourself to the present, to your breath and your connection with all that is breath. May the music support you as you take time to allow yourself to release whatever you no longer need, as you take time to breathe into yourself, and be present to yourself. May the music support you as you take time to feel gratitude for your presence, for your very being.
October 5, 2024, 2:30 –4:00pm
In the Clearing: Improvisations for the Earth with Julia Haines
With a unique approach to the lever harp, influenced by the beauty of Celtic melodies, and the polyrhythmic tradition of Mandingo Kora, Julia creates a radiant music. For this solo sounding, Julia will present improvisations, honoring the Earth and all our relations.
September 29, 2024 | 3-6 pm
Improvisors Orchestra
Peter Apfelbaum leads the Creative Music Studio Improvisers Orchestra in honor of Karl Berger. Comprised of leading professional string, horn, reed, vocalists and percussionists conducted in live improvised performances, Julia will be performing on lever harp.
Presented by the Creative Music Studio at The Shirt Factory, #118, 77 Cornell St, Kingston, NY 12401.
Open rehearsal, 3 pm, Performance 4pm
Friday, September 27, 2024 | 6:00pm
Avant-Garde-Arama
Performing with Bob Goldberg’s Accordions of the Universe, solo Harp at the Lace Mill, 165 Cornell Street in Kingston, NY
Saturday August 17 | 2:00 pm
Julia Haines with with Matoaka Little Eagle
In The Clearing: Summer Concert Series at the Rail Trail Cafe, 310 River Rd Ext, New Paltz, NY 12561
Saturday July 13 | 2:00 pm
Julia Haines with Matoaka Little Eagle and Bob Goldberg, accordion
In The Clearing: Summer Concert Series at the Rail Trail Cafe, 310 River Rd Ext, New Paltz, NY 12561
Saturday June 22, 2024 | 2pm
Julia Haines with Matoaka Little Eagle
In The Clearing: Summer Concert Series at the Rail Trail Cafe, 310 River Rd Ext, New Paltz, NY 12561
Saturday June 15 | noon
Monarch Festival: Julia with Matoaka Little Eagle
6132 NY-28, Indian Lake, NY 12842
Sunday June 9, 2024 | 1:00 pm
Famous Accordions of the Universe
Opus 40 356 George Sickle Rd, Saugerties, NY, United States
Julia Haines on harp joins Bob Goldberg and the Famous Accordions for an afternoon concert in the extraordinary location: Opus 40.
General admission: $12 includes access to full site included.
Saturday, June 8, 2024 | 10 am
Ground to Sound: Meditation Walk to Music
Parish Field
16 Ava Drive, Phoenicia, New York
Catskill Mountain Roots presents Julia Haines at the first of an ongoing summer concert series. You are invited to kick off your shoes to list or take a meditation walk to the soothing sounds of contemporary harp.
Suggested donation $10
Raindate: July 27
4 Saturdays May – August, 10am–12pm
Have you Ever Wanted to Play the Harp?
OLIVE FREE LIBRARY WEST SHOKAN, NY 12494
Questions? Contact Julia @ juliahainesmusic@gmail.com
Join harper Julia Haines for a Harp Pop-up Experience.
Choose from one of four Saturdays or come to them all!
Saturday, May 6 | 2 pm
Julia & The Eagle Celebrate A Cross Cultural Journey
Join Julia Haines, Harp & Voice and Matoaka Little Eagle, Song and Story, at the Olive Free Library, Rt. 28 A, Olivebridge, NY
$15 suggested donation-Sliding scale available
A portion of the proceeds will benefit the Olive Free Library
Flying, soaring across cultures, Julia and Matoaka celebrate our Earth and the Elements in music, song and story. We’ll take you there
Summary 2023 Performances
Summer Concert Series at the Rail Trail Cafe
Summary 2022 Performances
- Chennai Storytelling Festival 2022
Summary 2021 Performances
- Concert: Wild Wisdom, Sinterklaas Festival
- Anthology Film Archives showing of 1975 film Transformation by Barbara Hirschfeld, soundtrack by Julia Haines, with the New Cadre Feminist Collective
- House Concert: Wild Wisdom, Barrytown, New York
- Music Meditation: Golden Day 2/29/20 Matagiri Sri Aurobindo Center, Woodstock, New York
- Conference: Healing Power of the Imagination, Stone Ridge, New York
- Summer Concert Series at the Rail Trail Cafe: Harp Bandit, Julia Haines: Blessings for the Animals & the Earth.
Summary 2020 Performances
- Concert Series: Blessings for the Animals & the Earth, Rail Trail Cafe, New Paltz, New York
- Music Meditation: Golden Day 2/29/20 Matagiri Sri Aurobindo Center, Woodstock, New York
- Conference: Healing Power of the Imagination, Stone Ridge, New York
Summary 2019 Performances
- Artist in Residence: Sailing Home- Metamorfos Institute, Paros, Greece
- Summer Music Series, Rail Trail Cafe, Spirit Sounds, New Paltz, New York
- Concert: Porch Jam, Mt. Temper, New York
- Concert: Greenkill Gallery, Greenkill, New York
- Concert: Songs to the Earth, Olive Free Library, Olive, New York
Summary 2018 Performances
- Built on Stilts Festival: Music and Movement Improvisations with Roberta Kirn,dancer, Martha’s Vineyard
- Summer Concert Series, Rail Trail Cafe, Improvisations with the Elements, Nature, with Steve Gorn and the Harvest, New Palts, New York
- House Concert: Charge of the Goddess, Philadelphia, PA
- House Concert: HER Songs, Old Pine Farm, Deptford, NJ
- Concert: I Shall Sing a New Song, Miriam, CHUC, Philadelphia, PA
Summary 2017 Performances
- Summer Concert Series Rail Trail Cafe, Music in the Woods, Music for the Tree, Music for the Earth.
- Howland Center for the Arts: Accordion Round Robin
- Concert: The Irish Harp: History and Magic, Olive Free Library