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News
September 2007
Dear friends,
I am very happy to announce that a music program for adults with disabilities that I was asked to develop and run called " Intro to the Joys of Music " was featured in the summer issue of the Eugene Magazine. The article is now available on my web site (click here). A group of participants from the program and I were recently asked to perform our first public performance Friday, October 5th at the Eugene Public Library from 6:00 -6:45 p.m. The music program is run through the City of Eugene's Adaptive Recreation Dept.
Also, I now have a MySpace page and it can be found at www.myspace.com/davidhelfand
May 2007
David performed for the Eugene based MuseArt group which is a collective of artists who draw and paint portraits of musicians. Two portraits are now in the new Art section of the web site.
March 2007
David composed and performed music for the west coast debut of Dale Wasserman's play " Players in the Game " directed by Reeva Kaufman at the Very Little Theater in Eugene, Oregon. Ten shows were performed to appreciative audiences and were very favorably received.
declares David to be the Happening Person!
Memories and Stardust
January 24, 2006Dear friends,
I am excited to announce the arrival of my new limited edition all acoustic
(Extended Play), CD " Memories and Stardust ". The CD consists of
six solo musical pieces played on harp, mandocello and guitar and one duet
with mandocello and flute. The CD is thirty eight minutes long and features
music that is meditative and soothing. The album is available through the web site.
"At the Edge of the Cornish Sea" Cornwall, UK review
Dec, 25, 2005
Dear friends,I am extremely pleased to announce that "At the Edge of the Cornish Sea" received a review
in Cornwall that will appear in the next issue of the "Cornish World" magazine.
The beautifully written review by Michael Chappell can be viewed here.
Links Page
Dec, 25, 2005
Dear friends,A new Links page is being added to this web site with info on projects I am involved with
and links to musician's who have inspired me over the years. Please feel free to visit the web sites
listed on this page.
Internet Radio
Oct, 5, 2005
Dear friends,Hope you are all doing well. I am happy to announce that my music is being featured on an internet radio show from Hawaii
called Smiling Ear and that the show's host Steven Parente has reviewed my CD's and created a review blog on his site.
The show can be found at www.smilingear.com and his review can be found by clicking on Music Review Blog.
Free Downloads
April 25, 2005
Dear Friends,
Greetings, I send you all my very best wishes. Thank you for visiting my site. I am very happy to announce that I can now offer you free MP3 downloads of two tracks from each of my solo CD's. The tracks are located on each CD info page. I hope that you enjoy the music.
I will have information about future recordings in the near future. If you would like to contact me, I would love to hear from you.
Until then, I wish you all well.
David
Israel
January 15, 2005Dear friends,
Greetings, I send you all my very best wishes for the new year. I have recently returned from my second journey to Israel and had a profoundly inspiring time while visiting the sacred city of Safed, the Sea of Galilee, met with peace workers and drove through the magnificent Jordan Valley to Jerusalem.
While there, I also had the golden opportunity to perform my debut concert in Jerusalem at The Little House in Bakah with my friend and Rabbi, Rabbi Yitzhak Husbands-Hankin. With great gratitude, I want to thank my friend and fellow harpist Sunita Staneslow, who lent me her magical harp for the concert. There are new photos of this event in the photo section.
I hope to have new recordings in the near future, and information on them will appear when they are available. In the meantime my CD's can be ordered through www.cdbaby.com, the various CD sellers listed and through my web site.
I hope to see you all in the near future.
Until then, I send you my very best wishes.
David
Tour in Britain - David Helfand and Friends
My ensemble and I embarked on our first performing tour of Britain during the summer of 2003. We were invited to play at the Eden Project in Cornwall, a world-renowned environmental center. They call themselves the Living Theater for Plants and People and the site includes the largest greenhouses in the world called Biomes and an incredible outdoor amphitheater. We performed there July 23rd, 24th, and 25th, 2003. For updated information on events at the Eden Project visit their web site at: www.edenproject.comWe also performed for a special gathering in Oxford. I toured and played with two extraordinary musicians, Jeff Schenck on bass and Chad Marks-Fife on violin.
Jeff and Chad also performed with me at HarpCon 2003, the International Harp Conference held in Bloomington, Indiana, July 9th-13th, 2003.
