Girl Plays a Harp on a SEPTA Train

August 30, 2010 in Music,Philadelphia with 12 Comments

I know we’ve all been witness to copious amounts of SEPTA fail in our lives as Philadelphians, but sometimes, just sometimes something magical happens in our generally unpleasant mass transit experience. 

I was coming home from covering Inochicon where I was recording the Reni Mimura concert on the 570 R5 Landsdale/Doylestown Regional Rail, and a girl got on the train… with a harp.

Now I thought the fact that the girl was carrying around the harp was crazy enough and due to the sheer size of the thing. Everyone on the train was openly fascinated with the instrument and the conductor joked that she should play a song, and everyone sort of chimed in and agreed.

She eventually relented and played a short set of 3 short songs. I got her name afterward… Paige Setzer. Thank you Paige.

Another Song After the Jump!

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12 Responses to “Girl Plays a Harp on a SEPTA Train”

  1. geekadelphia August 30, 2010 at 2:51 pm #

    Girl plays a mean harp on a SEPTA train. How awesome. http://geekadelphia.com/2010/08/30/girl-... cc @septawatch @phillyist

  2. Madigan August 30, 2010 at 11:05 am #

    This is so awesome! I think most people are just dying to have something awesome and unexpected happen to shake up the daily routine. Like a woman playing the harp on the subway! Great stuff.

  3. Ryan Barnes August 30, 2010 at 11:12 am #

    Well the world can’t get much smaller, I went to high school with Paige! I’ll make sure she knows this post is here!

  4. Colleen Watts August 30, 2010 at 11:25 am #

    Paige played at our wedding at Morris Arboretum almost three years ago and she did a great job!

  5. Mikey August 30, 2010 at 12:02 pm #

    That’s really cool. I remember seeing your twitpic from that evening about the girl with the harp. Never expected her to actually play it on the train. That thing must weigh a ton.

  6. Phillyist August 30, 2010 at 4:52 pm #

    RT @geekadelphia: Girl plays a mean harp on a SEPTA train. How awesome. http://geekadelphia.com/2010/08/30/girl-... cc @septawatch @phillyist

  7. Mythosidhe August 30, 2010 at 6:12 pm #

    RT @geekadelphia: Girl plays a mean harp on a SEPTA train. How awesome. http://geekadelphia.com/2010/08/30/girl-... cc @septawatch @phillyist

  8. me August 30, 2010 at 3:30 pm #

    This is terrific, but that guy who asked how much the instrument was worth was really annoying. (Apologies if this is you Dan). Anyways, thanks for posting this.

  9. Dan August 30, 2010 at 3:32 pm #

    Nope, wasn’t me. Me and the attendant were actually joking about kicking that guy off because he got more annoying after the first round of songs.

  10. Charlotte August 30, 2010 at 10:17 pm #

    This bit reminded me that Curtis Publishing Company used to bring classical groups in to play for their employees in their lunch room in Philadelphia.

  11. chris August 31, 2010 at 11:19 am #

    this is awesome.

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