Harp Music by Margaret - Harp Players -Harp music in South East
Harp music for all accasions .Music to suit your taste : Classical, Traditional and Popular.

Margaret started harp lessons at the age of fourteen with Surrey based harpist Susannah Shucksmith.
She then continued her musical training under Sidonie Goossens OBE and finished her studies with Sussex harpist Helen Arnold.

The harp she plays today is a magnificent instrument made for her by Pilgrim Harps in Surrey.
Margaret also has an antique gold harp made by Thomas Dodd in London around ****.
This beautifully carved and guilded harp is ideal for smaller venues.

She now works as a soloist and has given recitals at National Trust properties, has played at the City of London Guildhall, The Baltic Exchange, The Savoy and Hilton Langham Hotels and for many weddings, private and charity functions. She plays at Penshurst Place in Kent wearing Period Costume and has appeared on Meridian Television in a documentary for The Pilgrim's Way.

Margaret makes period costumes and wears them when she plays at historic venues. Some of these have been Carrisbrooke, Corfe, Bodium, Hever Castles and Battle Abbey.

More unusual venues include:

The Insurance Institute London, Southampton Airport,The Foundling Hospital London, in the VIP marquee during the Wimbledon Tennis Championships, London Zoo, Fort Nelson, The Wetlands and Wildfowl Trust in Arundel, Gatwick Airport and The Royal Courts of Justice - to name but a few.

Harp music can also be very theraputic and Margaret regularly entertains residents in nursing, residential and care homes.

She also gives informal talks and demonstrations to school children, Women's Institutes, Rotary, Lions, Probus and other groups . Margaret is currently Resident Harpist at The Spa Hotel in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, The Insurance Institute of London and Penshurst Place in Kent.

Among other cities, Harp Music by Margaret may serve the following areas: Milton Keynes, Southampton, Reading, Ashford, Aylesbury, High Wycombe, Oxford, Basingstoke, Brighton, Guildford, Maidstone, Canterbury, Eastbourne, Fareham, Portsmouth, Tonbridge, Tunbridge Wells, Woking, Worthing, Bicester, Camberley, Chichester, Dartford, Dover, Epsom, Folkestone, Gravesend, Leatherhead, Rochester, Sevenoaks