The rising harpist explores spirituals, musical ancestors and the influence of church on her new album, Take Me to the Water.
Last Thursday, I had the pleasure of "virtually sitting down" (also known as jumping on a Zoom call) with harpist Ashley ...
In collaboration with the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, the Penn Museum hosted a conversation between flutist and composer Emi Ferguson, harpist Ashley Jackson, and John Hopkins Assyriology ...
American harpist Ashley Jackson's latest album, Take Me to The Water, focuses on spirituals, featuring her arrangements of works by composers like Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and Alice Coltrane.
Ashley Jackson: In African American spirituals ... with me most was how she really talked about being a mother and an artist and a wife in this beautiful, holistic way. And for me, as a young ...