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playing in public
I consider myself as a Living History Artisan – I actively present living history, while working with 19th Century photographic process to take photos, I hadn’t been to an American civil war reenactment for the last few years. This is last Weekend a Holiday weekend in the United States referenced as Labor Day. I brought my harp with, to play. I instantly drew another reenactors children while amazing other reenactors, who complimented me. – all in all it was a great experience, drawing a lot of questions, with people filming me etc. in a sense I knew it would draw people, But I didn’t expect such a warm reaction. – also I had never really considered or gendered my other instruments, but when the wind blew throw the strings of my harp, causing it to sing, my harp became a she who would sing. one person, who interviewed me for a project they were working on was fascinated by the harp as much as they were fascinated by my camera and the photographic process
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How wonderful! Hopefully one day I’ll be comfortable playing in public!
I’ve been playing for my family so that helps.
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yes, that definitely helps. – if may, There is many different reasons we carry around with us, and use as to why we can not do something, such as playing in public – the easy answer is that if you want to, that you just do it – people in general will not know anything different. this is a statement that I learned many years ago when doing various public presentations. As far as playing the harp, just relax and enjoy and be in the present, the rest will just happen.
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