Today’s blog post is looking back at a recent wedding in Bradford. I have been getting a lot of last minute enquiries lately, which is exciting! This particular gig was an Indian wedding. My job was to play for the welcome drinks. The request was to make the playlist 50% Bollywood, and 50% a mix of classical, pop and Disney. So I was ready to be a Bollywood Harpist for the day.
Learning Bollywood Music on the harp
In all honesty I hadn’t played a lot of Bollywood before, so I spent plenty of time before the big day downloading the music and learning it. I found Bollypiano to be a really good resource of Bollywood arrangements. They had most of the songs I was looking for. I also like to hear the music I’m learning, so I made a playlist on Spotify and Youtube. This helped so much to give me a flavour of these tunes. Now I feel much more prepared just in case I’m asked to play Bollywood at future weddings. ‘Bollywood harpist’ seems like a good extra string to my bow if you’ll pardon the musical pun.
This was a much larger wedding than any I’ve played for recently – over 200 guests!
The venue was the Walton View Hotel in Bradford and it was an absolutely stunning day, really warm and sunny.
One of the things I love about my job is how varied it is. I get to see all different sorts of weddings and I love feeling like I’m helping to set the atmosphere of a couple’s special day.
If you’d like to enquire about having me as your wedding harpist, click here. The couple for this wedding just wanted background music for the Drinks Reception, but I also have packages available for your Wedding Ceremony or Wedding Breakfast, click here to have a look at the different options.
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