I'm very proud to announce that Ann Heymann is the recipient of our 2021 Lifetime Achievement Award. You listen to her and you are transported back in time to the Great Hall. Ann has spent nearly 50 years researching, experimenting and developing the techniques, and sharing her expertise tying ancient lore to her brilliant performances on the wire-strung harp. In 1975 when she stumbled onto a wire-strung harp made by Jay Witcher (who received our Lifetime Achievement Award in 2016), no one living really knew how the ancient music sounded nor how those harpers played it. Every presenter I've had at Somerset covering "early music and historic harp" has drawn a direct line to Ann Heymann as a major influence on their own playing. I have followed her career since before I even started playing harp, stumbling across her ground-breaking album with Alison Kinnaird called The Harpers' Land in 1983. When we talk about pioneers in the harp world, there is no one who fits that description better than Ann Heymann.
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“I am very grateful to have the instrument in my life and it is my full joy and inspiration now," says Ann, in the second part of the Moonoverthetrees interview. Moon Over the Trees has a 2-part interview with the "Queen of Harps" in its HarpSong podcast series. Powered by Robly™ Lifetime Achievement Award for Ann Heymann Watch our Tribute to Ann Heymann
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