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How Do You Find You?: An Interview with Harpist and Educator Robbin Gordon-Cartier
In this special extended episode I speak with harpist and educator Robbin Gordon-Cartier. Robbin’s website: www.robbingordoncartier.com/
Moon Over the Trees Website: moonoverthetrees.com
I met Robbin at The Somerset Folk Harp Festival where I work as the concert manager. She has inspired me to be a better music teacher, performer and human being. I’m really not saying that lightly. You’ll see in this interview how Robbin doesn’t sugar coat the pain of life. She is always encouraging people and truly sees them. She sees her students, she listens, and she transforms her pain into something that builds her and those around her up. Her vulnerability is one of her biggest strengths as is her talent, huge heart, welcoming smile, and laugh.
I’ve never had so much fun covering such a wide range of important topics. We discuss education, understanding, truly seeing the humanity in each other, her own struggles growing up in the late 60s and early 70s, her own diagnosis with Multiple Sclerosis, and her courage to reach out to help others and truly change lives for the better.
Links:
https://www.robbingordoncartier.com/
Robbin Performing, “Danny Boy” at The Somerset Folk Harp Festival in 2017 as the audience hums along with her.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WDLaz6bsqY
Children’s book based on Robbin’s childhood, “The Girl Who Didn’t Want to Practice by Lisa J. Michaels
https://ljmichaels.weebly.com/robbin--the-girl-who-didnt-want-to-practice.html
The Somerset Folk Harp Festival
http://www.somersetharpfest.com/
Robbin’s Harp program at The Cicely L. Tyson Community School of Performing and Fine Arts
https://nj02207379.schoolwires.net/Domain/1169
Robbin Gordon-Cartier and her students from Cicely L. Tyson School of Performing & Fine Arts with the West Shore Symphony.
https://www.hipharp.com/blog/32848
Blog Post interview with Robbin by Bob Glennan
https://rmg-images.com/2019/08/09/in-life-just-smile/
PBS American Portraits:
https://www.pbs.org/american-portrait/story/2299/robbin-g-east-orange-nj-a-days-work-is
https://www.pbs.org/american-portrait/story/2331/robbin-g-east-orange-nj-my-parents-wanted-me-to
https://www.pbs.org/american-portrait/story/2595/robbin-g-east-orange-nj-you-dont-know-what-its-like-to
Beginning in the Middle
http://www.beginninginthemiddle.com/
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In this special extended episode I speak with harpist and educator Robbin Gordon-Cartier. Robbin’s website: www.robbingordoncartier.com/
Moon Over the Trees Website: moonoverthetrees.com
I met Robbin at The Somerset Folk Harp Festival where I work as the concert manager. She has inspired me to be a better music teacher, performer and human being. I’m really not saying that lightly. You’ll see in this interview how Robbin doesn’t sugar coat the pain of life. She is always encouraging people and truly sees them. She sees her students, she listens, and she transforms her pain into something that builds her and those around her up. Her vulnerability is one of her biggest strengths as is her talent, huge heart, welcoming smile, and laugh.
I’ve never had so much fun covering such a wide range of important topics. We discuss education, understanding, truly seeing the humanity in each other, her own struggles growing up in the late 60s and early 70s, her own diagnosis with Multiple Sclerosis, and her courage to reach out to help others and truly change lives for the better.
Links:
https://www.robbingordoncartier.com/
Robbin Performing, “Danny Boy” at The Somerset Folk Harp Festival in 2017 as the audience hums along with her.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WDLaz6bsqY
Children’s book based on Robbin’s childhood, “The Girl Who Didn’t Want to Practice by Lisa J. Michaels
https://ljmichaels.weebly.com/robbin--the-girl-who-didnt-want-to-practice.html
The Somerset Folk Harp Festival
http://www.somersetharpfest.com/
Robbin’s Harp program at The Cicely L. Tyson Community School of Performing and Fine Arts
https://nj02207379.schoolwires.net/Domain/1169
Robbin Gordon-Cartier and her students from Cicely L. Tyson School of Performing & Fine Arts with the West Shore Symphony.
https://www.hipharp.com/blog/32848
Blog Post interview with Robbin by Bob Glennan
https://rmg-images.com/2019/08/09/in-life-just-smile/
PBS American Portraits:
https://www.pbs.org/american-portrait/story/2299/robbin-g-east-orange-nj-a-days-work-is
https://www.pbs.org/american-portrait/story/2331/robbin-g-east-orange-nj-my-parents-wanted-me-to
https://www.pbs.org/american-portrait/story/2595/robbin-g-east-orange-nj-you-dont-know-what-its-like-to
Beginning in the Middle
http://www.beginninginthemiddle.com/