  Friend, • What Carolyn Is Up To: Happy New Year From Pacific Harps • Upcoming Events: HarpNotes' New Face - Harmonies! • Feature Article: 5 New Year Music Traditions From Around The World • About Carolyn: Meet The Artist • Carolyn Recommends: Recipe Book: The Essential Chicken Noodle Soup Please add "carolyn@pacificharps.com " to your white list or address book in your e-mail program, so that you have no trouble receiving future issues!  Happy New Year From Pacific Harps  As 2010 draws to a close, we're reflecting back upon what this year has brought us - the challenges, the successes, and the things that have made us grow and will keep us growing into the new year. One of the things that comes to mind in all of this is this very newsletter. Creating and expanding it into a wonderful form of connection with all of you has been so rewarding and inspiring, and we want to thank you for all your great comments, communication and participation in this part of the journey. We wish you all the most fantastic of new years. We'll see you on the other side!  HarpNotes' New Face - Harmonies!  Coming soon! HarpNotes will be changing to “Harmonies” - the official newsletter of the new agency Music For Events! We are so very excited about this new venture, and watching all the pieces come together has been such an amazing experience. So many different aspects are involved with putting all of this together, and we can’t wait to share it with you! The website will be up and running soon - and you will be the first to see it! Keep an eye out for it at the start of the New Year!  5 New Year Music Traditions From Around The World
All over the world we celebrate the New Year - and all of us incorporate music in a very important way. Check out these neat and different ways in which cultures around the globe use music to ring in the New Year! In New York City, the 11,875-pound (5,386-kg), 12-foot-diameter (3.7-m) Times Square Ball located high above Times Square is lowered starting at 11:59 p.m., with a countdown from :10 seconds until :01, when it reaches the bottom of its tower. The arrival of the new year is announced at the stroke of midnight with fireworks, music and a live celebration that is broadcast nationwide. Kohku Uta Gassen(?????), more commonly known as simply K?haku, is an annual music show on New Year’s Eve produced by Japanese public broadcaster NHK and broadcast on both television and radio, nationally and internationally by NHK's networks and some overseas (mainly cable) broadcasters which bought the program. The show ends shortly before midnight (when NHK switches to a frenzy of "Happy New Year" greetings from around the nation). New Year's Eve in Suriname is called Oud jaar, or "old year". It is during this period that the Surinamese population goes to the city's commercial district to watch "demonstrational fireworks". These celebrations start at 10 in the morning and finish the next day. The day is usually filled with laughter, dance, music, and drinking. When the night starts, the big street parties are already at full capacity. The most popular fiesta is the one that is held at Café 't Vat in the main tourist district. The parties there stop between 10 and 11 at night, after which people go home to light their pagaras (red-firecracker-ribbons) at midnight. After 12, the parties continue and the streets fill again until daybreak. During the Hmong New Year celebration, the Hmong ball tossing game pov pob is a common activity for adolescents. Boys and girls form two separate lines in pairs that are directly facing one another. If a player drops or misses the ball, an ornament or item is given to the opposite player in the pair. Ornaments are recovered by singing love songs (hais kwv txhiaj) to the opposite player. In recent times, in such areas as China, the young lovers have been seen to carry tape players to play their favorite love songs for one another. During Lao New Year, there are many spectacles including traditional Lao music, mor-lam, and lam-wong (circle dancing). During the daytime almost everybody is at the temple worshipping, hoping to have a healthier and happier life in the new year. During the evening, people of all ages go to the wat for entertainment. Many thanks to the phenomenal www.wikipedia.org fr providing this information!   Australian harpist Carolyn Sykes has been performing in Australia, Asia, Europe and the United States for the past 30 years. She came to Los Angeles fifteen years ago to study for her Masters Degree at the California Institute of the Arts. Since then she has established her private teaching and performing studio Pacific Harps, teaching, supplying harps and performing in orchestras, on concert stages and for special events, both locally and abroad. Carolyn plays solo, as well as with other instruments such as flute, bass, violin and string ensembles and vocalists. Visit Carolyn's website at www.pacificharps.com for more information on lessons and harps, her harp retreat in Mexico, and much more!  Recipe Book: The Essential Chicken Noodle Soup
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