Hello all!!  Well I must first apologise for not posting for such a long time!  For the last 6 months I have been working on a research project for the Trad Music Forum assessing the educational needs in the informal education sector of traditional Scottish music and developing a future strategy for organisations to help meet those needs.  So a very busy and not very musical few months!!  But, the next few months look to be very exciting indeed!

Though I have been busy with this research project, I have managed to do a wee bit of teaching inbetween times and I have to say I really enjoyed working with the students at the Falkirk Feis, what a fantastic bunch!!  Teaching alongside Sarah MacNeil was lovelie and all the students did so well!  I have also just started back the new term at the RSAMD teaching the students, we have another great bunch and I’m very much looking forward to an exciting and challenging year with all of them.

In my own explorations I am looking forward to finally having the time to make my album!  Because I have been without my Aziliz harp for the last 6 and a half months I have been working a lot on the electro-harp and the music I am producing seems to be taking a very different route to where I have been before, which is both scary and brilliant!  I am hoping to record an album, once my harp is repaired, using just my Aziliz and the material from my postgraduate and last year.  I am very excited about different options for recording spaces, watch this space!!

There are various other projects in the pipelines which I will write more about as they are firmed up.  In the mean time do have a listen to the music here, have a swatch at the photos and drop me a line!  Most importantly be happy and smile!  :-)

Calling all girls!!

Come along to my Harp Haven week for a special treat!!  A week of tunes and pampering!  Running from August 30th to September 4th!  Spaces are going fast to book up soon, for more information visit my projects page or get in touch at info@heatherdownie.co.uk

See you there!!

Hi all you lovelie ladies I met at Celtic Connections!! I have now added your music on my teaching page, you can access it by clicking here or visit the teaching page and click on Celtic Connections Harp Group 2010.

Enjoy playing and do sign up for the Harp Haven week!! Looking forward to seeing you there!

I just got back from teaching a wonderful week at Tinto Summer School 2009.  Its a great week and I’d recommend it to anyone!!

For my wonderful harp players I have made a page that can be accessed form my Teaching page where I have uploaded the dots for the tunes we learnt!  I’ll also upload the recording that we made and some sound files of the tunes in the next few days for you.

You can access the page by clicking here, or go to my Teaching page.

Well done guys!!  You played fantastically!!

Piano players, I’ll be doing your page in the next few days!

Welcome

Heather Downie, harpist, pianist and Scots singer.

Welcome to my website, here you can find lots of information about me and my music, feel free to have a look around, listen to some music and I hope you enjoy.  I am available for weddings and functions, to find out more about booking visit my weddings page.  You can also find out what I’m up to in my dates page and have a read about what other people have said about me and view some photos on my press page.

This is my news update, all the latest happenings will go up here so do pop back again and find out what I’m up to!!

If you want to get in touch then do drop me a line at info@heatherdownie.co.uk

Enjoy!!