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she is a professional harpist native to
Roanoke who received her Bachelor and
Master of Music degrees from the
renowned a Cleveland Institute of music
and now she travels across the country
all while maintaining a harp studio yeah
we are excited to welcome Rachel Leigh
hall to the show thank you so much for
coming on thanks for having me so tell
us a little bit about yourself and how
you got interested in the harp so I
first saw harp when I was about five
years old at the Bergland Center their
Craftsman classics craft show they had a
harp there and I just fell in love and I
got a hope just from the look of it just
from well also I think there was someone
playing okay selling CDs as well and
yeah so I got one the following year a
little one about a fourth of the size of
the heart by half now yeah and it's been
an adventure ever since and you know
you've traveled all over playing I have
yeah I'd actually drove my harp from
here to Colorado last summer to plan an
orchestra for a couple months so that
was the furthest I've driven with it oh
okay and so you're obviously still
traveling and doing concerts so let's
talk about some of the upcoming concerts
that you have where people can see so
here in Roanoke there's actually a
lunchtime concert series that more
people need to know about it's every
first and third Thursday at 12:15 p.m.
and it's meant for the downtown business
crowd or really anyone who can come to
bring their lunch and just enjoy free
35-minute concert and I play and lots of
other really great talented musicians
come and join us so the next one is this
Thursday and we're having a piano trio
playing what are they playing Mozart and
Schubert I think and then the next time
which is October 18th I'll be back with
my brothers actually who play violin
and we're going to be doing film music
very nice family yeah so that'll be fun
that's so cool okay so where can we get
more information on you and where you're
gonna be well you can follow me on
Instagram
my user name is Rachel we whole just my
full name and I post her videos pretty
much every day you can also go on my
website and contact me through there to
find more information as are available
for and you're nothing like that or if
I'm getting married hey I love that and
you're performing today what are you
going to be performing for us this is
musetta's waltz from the Opera La Boheme
by Puccini okay okay get set up and then
yeah we're going to let people know
Rachel Leigh hall calm
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