SCOIL NA GCLÁIRSEACH—Festival of Early Irish Harp 14–20 August in Kilkenny www.irishharp.org/festival/ ‘Meet the Artists’ photo no. 11 - Nancy Hurrell NANCY HURRELL 2019 Speaker Nancy Hurrell is a harpist, harp historian and author. A consultant to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, USA, she presents gallery talks, performs and records sound files on harps from the museum collection. Nancy is an expert on the harps of the pioneering, early nineteenth-century Dublin harp builder and inventor, John Egan. Listen to Nancy here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zWLWhlWAO8. She authored the ‘John Egan’ entry in the New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments (2014) and has had numerous historical-harp articles published. Nancy has lectured widely on Egan harps including at the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, the Royal Academy of Music Museum, London and at the Metropolitan Museum, New York. She recently produced the first monograph on Egan: The Egan Irish Harps—Tradition, patrons and players (Four Courts Press, 2019 https://www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/2019/the-egan-irish-harps/ ). This new book will be launched at Scoil na gCláirseach–Festival of Early Irish Harp in Kilkenny on Mon. 19 August. Hurrell is a performing harpist herself, playing in several Boston early music ensembles on a variety of historical harps. She has appeared at numerous festivals including Boston Early Music Festival, Amherst Early Music Festival, ICONS (Irish Connections), UK Harp Festival and Somerset Harp Festival. Her groundbreaking CD, The Egan Irish Harp(https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/nancyhurrell), is the first recording of an Egan Portable Irish harp, c.1820. Nancy Hurrell has also been a harp instructor at the Boston Conservatory and Brandeis University, and performs and teaches at conferences across the USA, Canada, Britain, and Ireland. www.hurrellharp.com #Clarsach #clairseach#earlyirishharp #irishharp#wirestrungharp #harp#irishmusic #kilkennyconcerts#kilkenny #irishmusicfestival#ancientirishmusic#historicalirishmusic #ireland#medievalmusic#irishmusichistory #irishculture#trinityharp #gaelicmusic#edwardbunting #ancientmusic#lostmusic #musicrevival #arpa (at Ireland (country)) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0W2YJrgWIL/?igshid=1ryrjvjqms772
