Timothy Harper First Forest CD

Timothy Harper's songs are passionate, playful, tender, and fierce, written for people who find themselves at the crossroads of history and modernity, at the cusp of self-discovery, at the knife edge of love and loss, ready to burn into life.A potent blend of Celtic themes and motifs with contemporary jazz, gypsy and rock influences, Harper's music is defined by his own solid performances on Celtic Harp and guitar. Harper's intense and generous vocals, which invite comparison to Cat Stevens, Counting Crows, and James Taylor, are the threads that tie his songs together, and make them more than just another collection of harp pieces. Poetic, powerful and strongly rendered in the tradition of singer-songwriters like Eliott Smith, Sarah McLachlan, and Jann Arden, the lyrics of Timothy Harper draw his listeners into a world where the sky between the wires is painted with myths, where love is a beacon to shopkeepers and buskers, and where passion retains all its glorious, transformative strength. At the core of every performance there is a kernel of certainty that we are capable of building lives that are extraordinary.After years spent studying for a doctorate in English Poetry, Timothy Harper decided to leave academics in order to pursue a musical vocation in 1998. As a professional harpmaker as well as a harper, Timothy enjoys a deep personal connection to the instruments he plays. Look for Timothy Harper on stages and at cultural festivals in Eastern and Central Canada and the North Eastern US.Timothy Harper is accompanied in live performance by the inimitable guitarist and vocalist Mike Blackmore, who also performs with his own band The Mike Blackmore Project. Together in concert, Harper and Blackmore are intuitive, professional and instantly engaging in any venue.