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Upcoming & Recent Events

October 24,  2010 - Carol will play at the Locktown Stone Church from 4:00 to 5:00 as part of the Mimi Conklin Upmeyer Concert Series. For more information and tickets call 908-996-3087.

October 26,  2010 - Join Carol in an "I Always Wanted To Play The Harp" evening at 7:00 pm at the Warren County Library in Belvidere, NJ. Carol will talk about the harp, play the harp and then invite members of the audience to give it a try on one of the several harps she has brought. For more information and to make a reservation for this free event call 908-475-6322.

December 12,  2010 - At 7:30 pm Assumption BVM Church presents its annual Gaudete Advent Concert with Carol as the guest harpist. The event is free to the public. Assumption Church is located at 4121 Old Bethlehem Pike, Bethlehem, PA 18015.

December 19,  2010 - Celtic Classic Concert Series presents "Pipes and Harp for the Winter Solstice" featuring Carol on harp and the renowned North American Champion piper Scot Walker on Highland and Small Pipes. The event will take place at Foy Hall, Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA 18018. The time(s) are TBA. For more information and tickets call Donegal Square at 610-866-3244.


Past Event Highlights

July 30 to August 1,  2010 - Somerset Folk Harp Festival at the Hilton in Parsippany, NJ.  Visit Carol at Carol Thompson's Harp Emporium in the Exhibit Hall.

June 1-9, 2008 - Carol was in Ireland to perform Dennis Varley's Connemara Mass with singers and other musicians.  The performances were in the Cathedral in Galway, the Cathedral in Tuam, and St. Mary's Church in Headford, Co. Galway

March 24, 2007 - Carol played a benefit concert called Pirates for Peace featuring Tommy Sands and his family from Ireland at Moravian College in Bethlehem, PA.

March 12, 2005 - Carol and the Jodes James Trio presented Celtic Harp and Welsh Folk Songs at the Walt Whitman Arts Center in Camden, NJ.

August 7th & 8th, 2004 - Carol performed at the Irish Festival in Dublin, Ohio.

July 25 - 30, 2004 - Carol was back again at The Augusta Heritage Workshops in Elkins, West Virginia to teach for Irish Week.

May 22, 2004 - Carol and Jack Vickrey perform a concert of harp and poetry to benefit Little Pond Foundations, a retreat for the arts in Nazareth, PA.

February 26 - 29, 2004 "Beginning in the Middle". A weekend seminar at the Hotel DuPont in Wilmington, Deleware devoted entirely to adult harp students.

 February 7, 2004 and February 8, 2003 - A concert at the Valley Forge Convention Center as part of a Mind/Body Conference hosted by AAAI/ISMA.

 July 9-13, 2003 - Five workshops as part of the International Society of Folk Harpers and Craftsmen's international conference HarpCon 2003 in Bloomington, Indiana. Carol and Jack Vickery presented the opening concert for the conference.

March, 2003 - Five concerts with The Chieftains. The dates and places are as follows:
        --- March 8 - The New Brunswick State Theater, New Brunswick, NJ
        --- March 9 - West Point, New York
        --- March 15 - New Jersey Center for the Performing Arts, Newark, NJ
        --- March 16 - Verizon Hall, Philadelphia, PA
        --- March 17 - Avery Fisher Hall, New York City

January 11, 2000 - A concert at the Clinton Branch of the Hunterdon County Library. Focusing on (mostly celtic) post holiday renaissance winter music. Carol's special guest, choreographer Barbara Pearson of Bethlehem, PA, well known for her work in renaissance dance, will teach two simple dances.


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