Author: Holland

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Alyssa Reit Premieres Moss Soft Gleam

Harpist Alyssa Reit will premiere my piece Moss Soft Gleam as part of the Queens New Music Festival and Vox Novus’s Fifteen Minutes of Fame project. Alyssa Reit has appeared as a harpist and storyteller across the US. She has performed with Anonymous 4, John Cage, and theater director/choreographer Martha Clarke. Active as a composer, Reit’s works include solos, brass quintets, choral music, music for string orchestra and more.

Friday, May 1, 2026 7:30 PM
Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame featuring Alyssa Reit
Queens New Music Festival
Culture Lab LIC
5-25 46th Ave
Long Island City NY 11101

Purchase tix for the festival which kicks off tonight and runs through Monday, May 4.

Moss Soft Gleam is the first time I’ve written for lever harp. It explores the instrument’s polytonal possibilities. Also on the program are works by E. Bu?ra Balc?, Erik Branch, Ross James Carey, François Couture, Philip Czap?owski, Joshua Paul Daniels, Ljubica Dam?evi?, Christopher Everest, Ólafur Geir Guðlaugsson, Faruk Mehi?, Ken Metz, Marina Romani, Juan María Solare, and Jane Wang.

I wish I could attend the performance in person. The one time I’ve been to Culture Lab LIC was with Miolina on a bill we shared with the amazing Ken Butler and HYBRID. Instead, I’ll make do with the livestream at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNWMcnbMAWM

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Abundant Life: Live

Hank Lazer and I have released a live recording of our recent poetry reading/performance, Abundant Life, at Ernest & Hadley Booksellers.

Find it at on my Bandcamp as a pay-what-you-wish album: https://hollandhopson.bandcamp.com/album/abundant-life-live

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The Silver Bowl is Filled with Snow

“I went to the woods
to be deliberate
& to lose
my other reasons”
–Hank Lazer from “September Days, A Bit at a Time”

I’m performing Saturday April 4 as part of a poetry reading/performance with Hank Lazer at Ernest & Hadley Booksellers to celebrate the release of Lazer’s latest poetry collection The Silver Bowl is Filled with Snow from Dos Madres Press.

Saturday, April 4, 2026 11am
The Silver Bowl is Filled with Snow
Ernest & Hadley Booksellers
Tuscaloosa AL 35401

I’ll provide ambient field recordings along with other electronic sounds; no banjo this time. I say it every time we perform: our work together continues to change and evolve while circling around a common interest in poetry and sound as opportunity for stillness, presence, and attention. This iteration leans into the soundworld of the recently departed Eliane Radigue.

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Bryant and Hopson and Marcus and Beatty

Poster that reads: Matt Bryant and Holland Hopson, Free Live Music, March 6th, 6-9pm, Marcus & Beatty, 2124 9th St. Poster shows a person playing a banjo and another person holding a ukulele

I’m happy to share a bill with Matt Bryant for a First Friday Tuscaloosa event at Marcus & Beatty. Matt and I will alternate solo sets during the night–Matt on ukulele and me on fretless banjo. We’ll both bring the electronics.

Friday, March 6, 2026
Matt Bryant / Holland Hopson
Marcus & Beatty
2124 9th St.
Tuscaloosa AL 35401

I’m a regular at Marcus & Beatty for haircuts, gifts and clothing. It’s so good to have them supporting music in the neighborhood! You’ll know you’re in the right place when you see the mural on the east side of their building.

Mural of white images on a black background with some red highlights. The mural reads "Slow Talk" and depicts a possum, crow, raccoon, cardinal along with magnolia blossoms, lilypads and other plants