Virginia Schweninger, Harpist: Links
- One Sweet Wedding
For help finding truly wonderful local wedding vendors and consultants, Claire Goodman and her partners have assembled the finest wedding professionals available in Central Virginia. This site will give you all the information and choices you might need.
Wonderful Wedding Locations & Services
- Sacred Ground Ceremonies
- Claire Goodman, Interfaith Minister, creates personalized ceremonies "for your life's sacred events."
- Pippin Hill Farm & Vineyards, North Garden, VA
Pippin Hill Farm & Vineyards is North Garden just south of Charlottesville in the foothills of the Blue Ridge. It's alovely location for any special event!
- Veritas Vineyards & Winery
Veritas Vineyards & Winery is a gorgeous location in Afton, Virginia, west of Charlottesville and only 1 hour north of Lynchburg with some of the best wine worldwide!
- The Golden Horseshoe Inn
The Golden Horseshoe Inn is a wonderful intimate venue for Small Weddings and Elopements just north of Charlottesville.
- Church Street Bridal in Lynchburg, VA
New Bridal and Formal Gowns Discounted: Bridal shops and designers across the USA have been overwhelmingly generous by donating hundreds of new wedding and formal gowns to the YWCA of Central Virginia. Visit Church Street Bridal in Lynchburg.
- Brian S. Vaughan, Celebrant
- Offering personalized ceremonies to mark life's many transitions.
- Blue Ridge Weddings
- Frankee Love, wedding officiant - performs wedding ceremonies throughout Virginia
Where You Can Find a Harp and/or Harp Music
- Virginia Harp Center in Midlothian
A convenient east coast harp center that provides all types of harps for sale or rental. They have music, strings, accessories and wonderful people to answer your questions. Take a field trip and try out all of their harps.
- Melody's Traditional Music & Harp Shoppe
Their website and catalog provide lots of really good information about the harps, CD's and music you might be considering purchasing. This gives you what you need to make an intelligent decision!
- H. Bryan & Co., Harpmakers
Old Harps Made Young Harp Repair & Restoration Services Harps for Sale. He has restored three of my harps and I highly recommend their work!
- Blevins Harps
Dwight Blevins creates the most wonderful lever harps of all types and styles that are also affordable. Cindy Kleinstuber writes and publishes music that is beautiful and perfect for lever harps. They are both very accomodating on the phone and will answer all your questions gladly.
- Sylvia Woods Harp Center
Check out the Harp Center for answers to all of your questions about learning to play the harp. Sylvia has a huge selection of music, harps, CD's and accessories for your lever or pedal harp.
Friends & Favorites
- Basic Necessities, Nellysford
- On most Sundays I play for brunch at this charming Nellysford landmark. Be sure you make reservations, it's small and tends to be very busy!
- Sweet Briar College
Sweet Briar is a small private, women's liberal arts and sciences college, founded in 1901. It is situated on over 3200 beautiful acres in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, about 50 miles south of Charlottesville, VA. 90% of their classes have less than 20 students. I am the Harp Teacher here, and this is where I teach many of my private students (those who live nearer the Lynchburg area). Our harp ensemble, Harp Song of the Blue Ridge, practices and performs here.
The campus and chapel are also a really gorgeous place to get married!- Eve Watters, Celtic Harper & Storyteller
- With Celtic harp, storytelling, and an array of instruments, Eve Watters celebrates timeless tradition with new spirit and sparkling style, to resonate with all ages. Tales-with-a-twist interlace with ancient airs, songs in a dozen languages, and historic harps, Native-style flute, concertina, banjo, autoharp, pennywhistle or dulcimer.