Aurora of the Northern Harp CD by Aryeh Frankfurter: World Harp Music CDs

Aurora of the Northern Harp is an amazing CD by Aryeh. Bask in the aural aurora of traditional folk music from Sweden, Norway & Finland. On these two finely-crafted CDs, Celtic folk harper and multi-instrumentalist Aryeh Frankfurter takes you on an exciting and exotic instrumental journey to lands of herding calls, polskas, hallings, waltzes, marches and airs -- all arranged for the Celtic harp and creatively self-accompanied on a panoply of traditional acoustic instruments. The music is passionate and exuberant, haunting and romantic, lyrical and playful; always inspiring, evocative and beautiful.

Aryeh’s solo harp arrangements for many of the pieces on this CD are now available in his Music of Scandinavia, Volume 1 book.

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Aryeh Frankfurter's uncommon approach to the Celtic harp and folk harp repertoire has gained him substantial recognition both within and outside of the Celtic harp community. Aryeh has performed in the summer of 2001 for an audience of 3400 at the amphitheatre Dalhalla in Rattvik Sweden. He is a mainstay performer at San Francisco's Ghirardelli Square. He was a workshop speaker and performer at the Harpcon 2000 held in Monterey California and has performed internationally in Sweden's oldest and largest music festival Musik Vid Siljan and at the Falum Musical Festival in the summer of 1996. Aryeh now pursues a career as a full time free lance musician performing widely throughout the San Francisco/Bay Area region of California.

Aryeh is a founding member of Azigza; a musical project which incorporates tastes of Arabic, African, Indian, Balkan and other world sounds and combines these with the hard edge drive of rock-n-roll and the elegance of classical colors. The group released their debut album "Azigza" in the summer of 2000, which has been receiving rave reviews from far corners of the globe.