I live in Gloucestershire, UK and run the online shop http://www.danceofdelight.com - mainly specialising in violins and accessories, including a range of tuners, rosins, strings and Incredibows.
We've just imported more of the violin bows - direct link here: http://www.danceofdelight.co.uk/catalog/index.php?manufacturers_id=16
I'm also a member of "Slainte" http://www.celtmusic.co.uk/body.htm, which is a 6-piece band and my solo and band videos are on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=MarkHarmer
I play the harp and have five of them: a Pilgrim gut-strung, a nylon-strung Dusty Strings Ravenna 34, a wire-strung lap harp, a paraguayan nylon-strung and a 3/4 Aoyama pedal harp. I teach the harp, and have run music workshops for Morley Harps, the Stamford International Harp Festival and the Clarsach society, all based around the idea of group playing and my "reverse masterclass", where no-one is allowed to play anything that anyone else is playing!
I have a new CD out - on Amazon and iTunes but cheaper if you get it here: http://tinyurl.com/carolan
I worked in the BBC for 23 years in radio and TV and have edited more speech, music and drama, in more languages, that most people have had cold Guinnesses.
After leaving the BBC in June 2006 and having also taken an MSc in organisation consulting at Ashridge, and with a colleague, recently launched http://www.groundedcreativity.com which is a great way to work through organisational issues in a new and very effective way.
Video is also one of my passions, and I've created video to support the Lyre of Ur project (recreation and artistic development of a 4500 year old lyre from the Baghdad museum), music-making with under-7s in Gloucestershire, and a video catalogue for Morley Harps. All of these have been highly collaborative - for example in the Gloucestershire project, we took the edited versions back into preschool settings to ask all the contributors how they'd felt we represented them, and what other changes both we and they would make as a result of seeing the video. Making TV collaboratively is a really unusual and incredibly enriching production process and one which some of our established broadcasters would benefit from emulating!
I have a blog at http://www.yourmusic.biz
Tunes in Mark Harmer's tunebook: 0
| Dance of Delight | November 2nd 2003 |
| Slâinte | October 21st 2002 |
| The Celtic Harp - Mark Harmer | March 2nd 2002 |
| The Fleece | April 23rd 2004 |
| Swedish music videos (OK not ITM but great fun) | October 17th 2009 |
| Raise your glasses... | June 30th 2009 |
| Self-criticism vs criticism of others | April 28th 2009 |
| Stupid things people say | January 2nd 2009 |
| Fiddle (and other instruments!) player wanted for UK gigging band | September 19th 2008 |
| Discussions | Re: Ladies and Gentlemen: The Irish Harp | November 21st 2009 |
| Discussions | Re: Fiddles - at last I understand the attraction | November 20th 2009 |
| Discussions | Re: mp3 or lossless? | November 19th 2009 |
| Discussions | Re: mp3 or lossless? | November 19th 2009 |
| Discussions | Re: mp3 or lossless? | November 19th 2009 |