The Nordic Harp Meeting is a musical conference, a meeting place for musicians and instrument makers, with workshops and lectures focusing on the harp, lyre, kantele and related diatonic instruments. We want to include musicians at all levels, instrument makers and everybody who is interested in traditional music and harprelated instruments. Professionals and advanced harpers are as welcome as beginners and curious listeners.

There will be ensemble playing and jam sessions, workshops and lectures. The program will also include some public concerts, but most notably, we want to encourage active participation by meeting each other, playing together and learning from each other.

The main objectives of the Nordic Harp Meeting are:
1. to meet other harpers from Nordic and other countries, to teach each other new tunes, make use of each other's knowledge, repertoire and experience, and generate new ideas from the synergistic effects of many different traditions and creative impulses.
2. to discover the diversity of harps and harp-related instruments of the North: Norwegian folk harp, Finnish kantele, Norwegian langleik, Finnish bowed lyre (jouhikko), Norwegian round lyre, Anglo-Saxon lyre, various historical harps and psalteries, and their respective traditions.
3. to enrich your repertoire with traditional tunes from other countries, ranging from historical tunes to recent music.
4. to transfer traditional tunes from the kantele, lyre, langleik and other traditions to the harp and vice versa, thus creating new sounds in Nordic folk music.
5. to experiment with ancient and new methods of playing harprelated string instruments, and to encourage free and open-minded debate on matters relating to these instruments and their history.