On this page, we will bring you information about the merchants who will be attending the Festival as it becomes available. We aim to have some harp-makers with harps for sale, some harp music and some harp CDs, and some accessories like tuners, at least. How many merchants we can sensibly invite will depend on how many people register to attend the conference.
We extend an open invitation to any harp-makers who would like to attend the Festival. A registration form will soon be available on this website, or will be obtainable from Keith and Heather Harrison, contact details on the home page of this website.
Merchants wishing to sell other types of harp merchandise will only be able to attend the Festival if they receive a personal invitation from the Festival Committee. This is necessary to ensure that those merchants who come do not face too much competition given the limited number of Festival participants.
The Committee has taken the decision that only merchants selling goods which are directly related to harps will be invited.
Keith Harrison of Plimmerton has been cabinet-making for 43 years, branching out into musical instruments for the last 15 years. He began with acoustic guitars and then 8 years ago turned his hand to harps. Keith designs all his own harps using native and exotic timbers. They range from 22 43 strings and are carved and decorated as required. Keith has designed his own levers, portable stools and wooden music stands.
To learn more about Keith and his harps, visit his web-site:
Lorene Roper, founder of Harplore Australia, is a teacher, performer, professional, and entrepreneur, who has been playing harps for 25 years. She established HarpLore Australia in 1996, selling harps, harp music and accessories across Australia and New Zealand. Lorene also composes and publishes music, publishing two of her own collections of original pieces, Whispers of Time and Nature's Dance. Forever generous with her time, Lorene has been a supporter of the Harp Society of South Australia for many years, holding positions of Editor, Treasurer, Vice President and President, and directed the Adelaide Harp Ensemble for a number of years. Packing HarpLore into the back of the car, Lorene also attends as many harp camps around Australia as possible, often giving workshops on diverse topics.
Lorene runs HarpLore Australia from her family farm in the Adelaide Hills, from where she still teaches between the fruit picking and sheep herding. Every three years she gets let out to attend the World Harp Congresses, where she gets to rub shoulders with the best in the world.
HarpLore's shop at the Festival will have CDs, music scores, jewellery and collectibles, strings, trolleys, covers, stools, music stands, harp accessories, books, harps and harp hardware.
Brandden Lassells of Harps and Harps, an established Australian custom harp-maker, dealer for Camac Harps and harp restorer, plans to have a Camac Atlantide on display and available for sale at the Festival, as well as one of his Kyla 36 harps. Brandden is known for the warm resonate sound of his harps.
Brandden can be contacted by phone: 612 4324 310 or by fax: 612 4325 4422, and you can visit his website:
Kim Webby has been crafting harps for 23 years from his home in Whangarei. He builds high-quality pedal and folk harps which are sought after world-wide. A full account of his harp-making career can be found on the tutor's page. Kim expects to have some folk harps on display at the Festival, and his pedal harps will be used at the Festival by some participants.
Kim can be contacted by mail at 28 Cockburn St, Onerahi, Whangarei, and by telephone/fax at (64) (9) 436 0185.Gillian Weiss makes a range of harps from 22 36 strings using mostly Australian woods. Each is custom made with a choice of timbers, soundboard, strings and levers and personalised decoration. Gillian has been making harps for almost ten years and in 2002 was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to study harpmaking in Europe, UK and North America. Her postal address is 12 Gould Road, Stirling, South Australia 5152; phone (08) 8370 9513 or 0421 856 123, fax (08) 8370 8693.
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