Sylvia Woods (harpist)

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Sylvia Woods (born 1951 in Tennessee) is an American harpist and composer,^[1] and is perhaps best known for her role in the worldwide renaissance of the Celtic harp, or cláirseach.^[2] Woods began selling and writing music for Celtic harps in the 1970s, when the instrument was not widely known in the United States, contributing to a groundswell of interest in the Celtic harp and music. Woods was named one of the “most influential harp forces of the twentieth century” by HarpColumn magazine.