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Elizabeth-Jane Baldry is the world's only silent movie harpist providing accompaniment to silent film screenings in the manner of the old silent movie pianists.

sunrise poster review of Sunrise score:

"For anyone who mistakenly associated the harp with Palm Court trios or the signature-tune to “Mrs. Dale’s Diary”, imagining it capable only of brittle versions of light classics or relentlessly glutinous arpeggia, this performance was an education. Elizabeth-Jane conjured 95-minutes of riveting musical commentary on the story, with sounds ranging from startling metallic eruptions at moments of shock plot developments, through foot-tapping jazz-age tunes in the dance-hall sequence, to voluptuous pastoral romances and affecting melodies drawing us into deeper empathy with the characters’ emotional troubles." - Wiveliscombe Silent Film Festival

  Peter Pan poster
EJ and Jean Darling Jean Darling

Left: Elizabeth-Jane with the vibrant, irrepressible Jean Darling, star of 35 Our Gang films, and the only surviving cast member from the silent era.

Right: photo of Jean in the 1920s. (Jean continued to appear in films after leaving the gang, including an appearance in Laurel & Hardy's 1934 adaptation of Babes in Toyland and as the young Jane in Jane Eyre (1934). She played Carrie Pipperidge in the original Broadway production of Carousel in 1945, appearing in 850 consecutive performances and setting a record for a singer.)