About You Gotta Have Harp

In 2005, the initial goal of Kathy DeAngelo and her company,You Gotta Have Harp Productions, was to increase the visibility of the harp by promoting the highly talented musicians on its roster to ever widening and varied audiences. I booked the tours for The Masters of the Celtic Harp show with Grainne Hambly and William Jackson, two of the top Celtic harpers in the world. I branched out and booked other trad artists who didn't play the harp, including the phenomenal Irish multi-instrumentalist John Carty and then the legendary Irish fiddler Kevin Burke. I've scaled back the booking agent business since the pandemic.

You Gotta Have Harp has been heavily involved in producing a number of really fine harp events. The Harpers' Escape, which began in 1992, has morphed and been integrated into the Somerset Folk Harp Festival, which Kathy produced from 2009 until 2022. In 2017 I began conducting the annual Harp Tour of Ireland, a guided tour in Emerald Isle.

In 2023 Kathy DeAngelo was recognized by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts with its inaugural Heritage Fellowship grant for her contributions to the folk community over her distinguished 50-year musical career.

Kathy DeAngelo