Harpin’ By The Sea

Harpin’ By The Sea goes live on Zoom and YouTube during the first weekend of February. Login details are on our homepage, and there’s plenty for all diatonic harp players to enjoy.

Our international cast of guest artists includes Mark Hummel, Mickey Raphael, Joe Filisko, Steve Weston, Aki Kumar, Son of Dave, Steve Baker, Will Wilde, Victor Puertas, Marcos Coll, Dave Ferguson, Fede Vaz, Paul Gillings, Aidan Sheehan, and Adam Burney. Our artists will be leading tutorials, playing songs and answering your questions live. In return, we invite our virtual audience to show their appreciation by donating whatever they can to help our artists who have been out of work for many months now owing to the Corona Pandemic. To make your donation, simply type paypal.me/harpinbythesea into your browser window. On Saturday we will be taking a virtual factory tour of Hohner Harmonicas and running interviews with our harmonica trade sponsors, who will be available to meet afterwards in our virtual bar. John Cook will also be on hand in his technical studio for visitors to drop in and chat about their harmonica modification and maintenance needs. If that’s not enough to get excited about, on Sunday there will be a rare opportunity to win a limited edition Gold Plated Hohner Marine Band harmonica and other great prizes in our fantastic online raffle. Money raised from the raffle and our popular new souvenir t-shirts will provide bedside music therapy for children in critical care through the Wishing Well Music charity. Raffle tickets can be purchased using the link on our event homepage. So join us on your handset, tablet, PC or laptop or TV and celebrate a harmonica weekend to remember from the comfort of your own home. This is not just any online harmonica festival, this is a Harpin’ By The Sea online harmonica festival.