Events
2008... recent events, concerts and more
Thursday, September 3, BRAS FOR THE CAUSE
Leslie performs for the Art Institute of Seattle's annual breast cancer awareness fundraiser and fashion show. www.artinstitutes.edu/seattle
Sunday, September 14, 3 pm, WORLD MUSIC FEST to benefit the Literacy Council of Seattle, http://www.literacyseattle.org/events.html
Suzuki Harp Northwest, featuring harpists Emily Brodie, Sophie Pawlowski, Graeme Smith and their teacher Leslie McMichael, will play for this benefit concert along with the gypsy jazz guitars of ZAZOU, folk singer ROSE LAUGHLIN and the WORLD LULLABY SINGERS
October 13-16, Leslie participates in the 28TH ANNUAL NORTHWEST BOOKING CONFERENCE in Eugene, Oregon, www.artsnw.org/
NEW! Click here to listen to a sample of Leslie's original harp score for the 1924 silent film "Peter Pan."
Saturday, November 1, 12 noon, FALL STUDENT HARP RECITAL, Fremont Library, Seattle
Summer '08 was a busy one with beginning harp classes taught by Leslie at the Edmonds Summer Music School, June 23-July 11
... harp students making pre-show music before the Vashon Theatre's outdoor movie, playing for the Federal Way Symphony Garden Tour, performing for the grand opening of the Woodmont Library in Federal Way
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Vashon Island Harp Camp
August 1-3 and August 3-5
Vashon Island Harp Camp spanned August 1-5, with an adult session offered by Scottish harp specialist SEUMAS GAGNE, noted arranger and harper BETH KOLLÉ and lever/pedal harp teacher LESLIE McMICHAEL, followed by a youth camp with the teaching talents of GWEN LYONS BAKER, Suzuki specialist BIANCA COLLINGS and LESLIE McMICHAEL.
More great music was made, and Leslie not only convinced everyone to play Spoons, we also produced a one-of-a-kind production of Jack and the Beanstalk (with little else but construction paper, string and review songs!)
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Evergreen Flute & Harp Suzuki Institute
July 22-26
Evergreen Flute and Harp Suzuki Institute took place July 22-26 in the beautiful Mount Baker National Forest near Bellingham. Musicians from far (North Carolina, New York, Nevada, Utah) and near (Washington, Oregon and Idaho) came together for five days of music in the mountains. Great harp and flute duets and Leslie learns how to play Spoons!
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2007... what happened last year?
“Peter Pan” (1924) was selected as the closing film for the Astoria International Film Festival running October 26-28 at the historic Liberty Theatre in Astoria, Oregon. On Sunday, October 28, Leslie accompanied the silent film live with her original three harp score to provide a celebratory conclusion to the film festival’s inaugural year.
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Peter Pan flew to Vashon Island near Seattle for a show at the Vashon Theatre, the island's beloved and historic movie palace, on Sunday, October 14. Leslie performed her original three harp score live for the film screening. Liz Shepherd of Northwest Film Forum called the music "innovative and especially exciting in that Leslie's performance alternated between Celtic, concert, and electric harps."
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Leslie played her Peter Pan score live at the REDCAT International Children's Film Festival in Los Angeles June 2nd and 3rd.
http://redcat.org/season/0607/fam/children5.php
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"Seventeen-year-old Betty Bronson was hand picked by author J. M. Barrie to play the boy who wouldn’t grow up, in Paramount’s star studded production of "Peter Pan." Delightful art direction (frolicking mermaids on the beach, flying pirate ships) and perfect casting (Anna May Wong as Tiger Lily, Ernest Torrence as Captain Hook and Mary Brian as Wendy) made "Peter Pan" a charming, magical holiday sensation in 1924. An impishly joyful Bronson lit up the screen as Peter, while Barrie’s original text was used for the intertitles in what remains the finest telling of this well-loved paean to eternal childhood."
David Jeffers, SIFFBLOG
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On April 6th, 20 of Leslie's harp students plucked "From Bach to Rock." We earned more than $1100 for YouthCare, Seattle's oldest and largest homeless youth advocacy organization!
