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Song video "Summer" from the new CD "Ever After."  (Click here if video will not play.)

Hello! I am harpist, singer, keyboardist, composer, Tracy DeMarco. I began The Glass Hour as a group collaboration in 2004 to showcase a new music I envisioned - mixing the music of the folk harp with electronic orchestration, elements of rock, and rich ethereal vocals. 

In our first recording released in 2005 I joined with progressive rock drummer/guitaritst Ed Nudd and guitarist Matthew Schneider to create the album "Amaranthine". This was primarily an acoustic recording, atmospheric, with a very relaxed, dreamlike quality. The current planned release has expanded on the storytelling/soundtrack quality of the music, adding more layers of orchestration, harp, vocals, and bringing a faery tale - something very magical - to life! It is a mix of vocal and instrumental tracks.

The new album, titled "Ever After," is an emotional journey that finds a deep connection and parallel with the story of our lives and the workings of the natural world. I'm very happy to have guitarist and keyboardist Brian Bradbury join me on this latest journey for select tracks, adding rock elements to the project.

With your support - funding will go towards, the CD production of this new release  - to happen as I've envisioned it. I've always felt that the the visual and auditory go hand and hand, and so have created a full booklet of personal, lovely artwork and lyrics that I'd like to package with the CD so that it might be a keepsake for many years to come. I also plan to create an all instrumental master that may be marketed for film, documentary, and other media.

I perform and work as a solo harpist and keyboardist, improvisational harpist and with groups in the Chicago area - and collaborate with other artists both local and overseas. Please visit my various weblinks to see the range of projects and people I am and have been involved with. Thanks so much! 

There is something precious in the journey of growth in ourselves and in the lessons that nature has to teach us in patience, diligence and acceptance. From the song  "Summer"..."ever growing, never knowing, how we'll  turn out to be - never the way that we see - oh our song....a garden..."