I’m Canadian harpist and composer Josh Layne. Come along with me as I combine my love of music with my love of the outdoors as a Harpist in the Wild! 🙂
Season 3: To be announced…
Season 2, A Baroque Feast, is in the books! Here’s the final episode of the season:
Sheet music for my arrangement of Vivaldi’s Winter is available!
Release schedule:
May 1st. Episode 1: Bach, Toccata (and Fugue) in D minor, BWV 565. Written in 1705 [perhaps…]
May 8th. Episode 2: Handel, Chaconne from Suite in D Minor, HWV 448. Published (written?) in 1705/06
May 15th. Episode 3: Vivaldi, Winter from The Four Seasons. Written in 1717
May 22nd. Episode 4: Bach, Prelude from Cello Suite No. 1. Written perhaps in 1720 or possible even earlier
May 29th. Episode 5: (Handel)
June 5th. Episode 6, season finale! (Bach)
Each episode will premiere on YouTube on a Saturday at 1pm PST!
Harpist in the Wild is a YouTube video series, organized into seasons, with occasional stand-alone episodes. During a season, episodes air every Saturday.
Read the announcement in my Feb. 15th email newsletter.
Hannah Palmquist at The Harp Column recently did this Q&A about Harpist in the Wild
Past episodes and seasons:
February 20, 2021: The very first Harpist in the Wild episode! “A Winter’s Day“ – a stand-alone episode about an ensemble piece I wrote in 2017.
Season 1, improvs, featured my small electric harp:
Episode 1 – “By the Ocean”
Episode 2 – “Looper pedal“
Episode 3 – “Encounter with Deer”
Episode 4 – “Ocean at Dusk”
Episode 5 – “Snow Day” (Series finale).
You can support the work I do on YouTube through my Patreon page. At the “Wild Harpist” level ($10 or more a month) I’ll display your name on-screen when I thank my patrons at the end of each Harpist in the Wild episode.
The harp that I’m using in Season 1 is a Firefly II electric harp, by a harp maker in Rhode Island – Dick Ranlet of Wickford Harps. http://wickharps.blogspot.com (I believe he is semi-retired now).
I did a Harp Tuesday episode about the harp: http://www.joshlayne.com/harptuesday/ep-111-exploring-electric-harps-part-1/