*NEW* Harp Fall Workshop!
We’re excited to announce registration for our Harp Fall Workshop with Allison Miller and Tiffany Schaefer is now open!
The 2025 Harp Fall Workshop will be held on Saturday, October 18 from 9:00am to 4:45pm in Lakewood, Ohio. Space is limited. The Registration fee of $70 includes the workshop and FREE admission to an Instructor’s Concert on Saturday evening.
Schedule:
9am – 12:30pm workshop
Lunch break 12:30pm – 1:45pm (Bring your own lunch. We will provide coffee, tea and water.)
1:45-4:45pm more workshop
Includes a FREE Instructor Concert at 7pm for the workshop attendees.
(Exact location of the workshop and concert will be included with your registration confirmation.)
Workshop topics (you may select multiple on the registration form – some classes will be taught simultaneously)
- All levels: Ear & Memory
- All Levels: Arranging Recipe
- All levels: Competitions, Performing, & Managing Stage Fright
- Beginner/All Levels: Music Theory 101
- Beginner/Early Intermediate: Repertoire Smorgasbord
- Early Intermediate/All Levels: Session Accompaniment
- Intermediate/Advanced: Repertoire Smorgasbord
Click here for a Workshop Registration Form: Harp Fall 2025 Workshop Registration
About Our Workshop Instructors:
Allison Miller began her musical career at age three with Suzuki piano lessons under the tutelage of Carol Wunderle and although she continued to play piano for the next thirteen years, she picked up the harp at age fourteen and began to explore the traditional music scene. She was very positively influenced by years of attendance at the Ohio Scottish Arts School and, after completing an undergraduate degree in Biology, had the opportunity to pursue postgraduate studies in Clarsarch (Scottish small harp) and Scot’s Song at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow, Scotland. Allison taught with Comhaltas coinin Erin in Scotland, has taught both privately and publicly in America, and has appeared in concerts in Scotland, Canada, and at multiple venues in the States. She and her sister, Sairey, often play as a duo, “The Hired Hands,’ and they have released two recordings together: Something, in the spring of 2009, and Somewhere, in the spring of 2022. Allison was awarded the title of National Scottish Harp Champion of America after winning the 2012 National Scottish Harp Competition. She has her Doctorate in Physical Therapy, is a Certified Therapeutic Harp Practitioner through IHTP, and has held the position of Treasurer for the Scottish Harp Society of America since 2009.
Tiffany Schaefer is a singing harper, arranger, and educator based in Northeast Ohio. Aided by a background in classical voice studies and many summers studying at the Ohio Scottish Arts School, she performs regularly as a solo artist and with several musical colleagues, including the Cleveland Celtic Ensemble, a touring Celtic chamber music quartet. Tiffany has been involved as either a volunteer or competitor in Scottish harp competitions since 2009, and in 2022 was awarded the US National Scottish Harp Championship and the Scottish Harp Society of America (SHSA) Travel Scholarship to Scotland. She is an active participant in the folk music world, hosting a local beginner-friendly session open to all folk instruments and playing regularly at Cleveland Irish sessions; serving as Harp Chair of the Scottish American Cultural Society of Ohio, and as Editor in Chief of the Kilt & Harp, the newsletter of SHSA. In addition to her work as a performer, Tiffany has been providing private lessons and workshops for students of all levels and ages since 2016, and has developed a reputation as a patient, knowledgeable teacher and advocate for adults learning the folk harp; amassing a loyal online following of students on her Patreon website, the Mastering Celtic Music Club. www.tiffanyharpandsong.com
Look forward to seeing you in October!
Save the Date for OSAS 2026 – June 27 – July 3!
Look for registration information in January 2026
Instructors for OSAS 2025 were…
Fiddle – Mari Black
Harp – Wendy Stewart, Kelly Stewart, Martha Geouge Hill and Jen Narkevicius
Highland Dance – Linda Armstrong, Eleanor Belton, Daniel Carr, Nadiene Gibney and Joy Tolev
Kilt Making – Jon Lilley
Pipes – Barry Conway, Barry Donaldson, Stephen MacNeil, Craig Munro, and Palmer Shonk
Smallpipes – Timothy Cummings and Gary West
Snare Drum – Kerr McQuillan and Robbie Graham Tenor/Bass Drum – Jill Watson
Instructors for OSAS 2026 have yet to be determined
Thank you to our 2025 Sponsors!
Diamond Elite Sponsor
Emerald Level Sponsors
Other Sponsors:
Caledonian Society of Cincinnati
Clan Henderson
Thank you to our 2025 Donors!
Anonymous
Jane Abbott
Kate Burleigh
Meredith Burton
Debbie Doty
Missy Gentry
Pam Kilpatrick
Lindsey Mallon
Sue Richards
Tyler Tagliaferro
Anne Wilson
donations received through August 19, 2025
Thank you to our 2025 OSAS Thistle Family!
