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.

Julia and The Eagle
Saturday June 22, 2:00 pm

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

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Julia at the Rail Trail Cafe
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

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.

 

Julia and The Eagle
Saturday June 15, noon

Monarch Festival: Julia with Matoaka Little Eagle

6132 NY-28, Indian Lake, NY 12842

Julia Haines at the Rail Trail 2017
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

railtrailcaferosendale.com

Julia and The Eagle
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

railtrailcaferosendale.com

Julia Haines at the Rail Trail 2017
Saturday September 14, 5:00 pm

Julia Haines solo Harp

In The Clearing: Summer Concert Series at the Rail Trail Cafe, 310 River Rd Ext, New Paltz, NY 12561

railtrailcaferosendale.com

Pop Up Harp
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!

May 18, June 29, July 20, and August 10
Each session: 10am–12pm

Please register with the Olive Free Library, 845-657-2482 for a 45-minute session with a folk harp, or pop in.

Five folk harps are available for playing. Learn basic harp practice, and have fun with playing and experiencing the wonder of harp.

Free and open to the public.

All ages are welcome: Parents should plan on staying with their children.

Julia and The Eagle
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.

Julia at the Rail Trail Cafe
Summer 2023

Summer Concert Series at the Rail Trail Cafe

I’ll be playing June through September at the beautiful Rail Trail Cafe, under the canopy of trees.

Performance dates coming soon.

Saturday February 19, 2022
10:00-11:30 am EST

Chennai Storytelling Festival 2022

Chennai Storytelling Festival
Chennai, India
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THUNDER: The Voice of the Mother, performance and panel discussion, facilitated by Laura Simms, with Anita Ratnam, storyteller and dance, and Julia Haines, Harp and voice.

As a prelude to the discussion on the Great Mother Culture, Julia’s offering will be a performance of her setting of the ancient text, Thunder: Perfect Mind.

Livestreamed on Zoom
To Register for this and all free Events, send email to info@storytellinginstitute.org

transformation
November 2021

Transformations

Anthology Film Archives in New York City showed the 1975 film Transformation by Barbara Hirschfeld, soundtrack by Julia Haines, with the New Cadre Feminist Collective. A fascinating feminist experimental fiction shot on location in Vermont. Watch the film here.

Julia at the Rail Trail Cafe
Saturday, August 14, 2021
7:00pm – 9:00pm

Meeting in the Woods: Harp Improvisations

Rail Trail Cafe, New Paltz, NY 12561
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Harp improvisations to fill the air of the inspiring natural sound space at the Rail Trail Cafe.

Annual Summary

2021 Performances

  • Concert: Wild Wisdom, Sinterklaas Festival
  • 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.
Annual 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

Annual 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
Annual 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
Annual 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