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Harpist - NW10
Covering; Merseyside, Lancashire, Manchester, Cheshire, Derbyshire,
Cumbria, Yorkshire, Staffordshire, North Wales and Shropshire.

Rachael G Harpist From Liverpool

Harpist NW10 is a full time contemporary harp player based in the North West and available for any kind of wedding, function or other booking. She specialises in music for street theatre, large scale performance projects, creative session playing and performing nationwide with various bands.

She has played at a huge variety of venues, from the beautiful Albert Hall in London and Philharmonic Hall in Liverpool to festivals such as Green Man, The Big Chill, Bestival, Shambala and Glastonbury. She has toured all over Europe with several bands and some incredible live shows.

Recent outdoor projects include playing for the Capital of Culture Opening Ceremony in Liverpool for an audience of 60,000, devising music for a large pyrotechnics show at the Stourbridge Festival of Glass and performing in the middle of a field full of raining fireworks, and performing and improvising in a moving cherry picker 40 feet in the air for audiences of more than 100,000 with the spectacular La Machine spider show both in Liverpool in 2008 and Japan in 2009. This year has also seen her performing with the world-famous La Symphonie Mechanique (mechanical orchestra) in France and collaborating with the brilliant Nitin Sawhney in Italy for Aftershock Project.
As the harpist for the Matthew Halsall Sextet, she holds a monthly residency at Manchester's Matt and Phred's jazz club, has recorded live sessions for BBC Radio 2 and BBC Radio 6 Music at Maida Vale Studios and frequently performs in London at venues such as the Jazz Café and Ronnie Scotts Jazz Club.

She trained at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts graduating with a First Class Honours Degree in Music and has studied with some extremely interesting and inspiring musicians such as jazz harpist Park Stickney, ex-Beatle Sir Paul McCartney and Jali Nyonkoling Kuyateh, a virtuoso on the kora (African harp).

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