Harpejji for Personal Private Events

You can expect pleasant, non-intrusive, peaceful instrumental music that is well-suited to accompany a wedding ceremony or background for parties and dinners. Kyle supplies all the equipment and only needs a power outlet and he does all the rest!

A native of Cape May, NJ, multi-instrumentalist and composer/arranger/producer Kyle Cripps is an in-demand musician in the New Orleans area, performing primarily on keyboards and saxophone. He has also added the new instrument the Harpejji, becoming one of the only harpejji players in the Gulf region. Kyle maintains an extremely active performance schedule as a solo performer or with bands such as Smoke N Bones, Maid of Orleans, Corporate America. He is also a regular contributor to several active brass bands including One Love Brass Band, Hacienda Brass Band, Orleans Brass Band, Big Fun Brass Band and serves as organist/music director for First Presbyterian Church in Slidell, LA. In the past few years he has become active as a producer and video editor with several music videos to his credit.

About the harpejji:
The harpejji is a real stringed instrument with an amazingly simple layout and playing method that enables you to quickly learn to play soulfully. Developed in the early 2000s by Marcodi Instruments, pros like Stevie Wonder and many others have adopted the harpejji and have taken it on the road... all over the world! You can tap, bend, slide, strum, pluck, slap, pull-off, mute and more for a full range of human expression. Great dynamics let you play quiet to loud and everywhere in between. The model Kyle uses is a 24-string which includes 8 bass strings for a fuller frequency range.

More about Kyle:

Kyle started performing primarily on saxophone throughout his elementary & high school years, earning numerous soloist awards. While in high school, his interests widened outside of the academic world as he composed, produced, recorded, and independently released three albums under the name “Willy Cliffton Band”, including the rock-opera “Elephant Supernova”. Although his formative years focused on sax, he took the time to add keyboards and guitar to his repertoire and performs and records regularly on several instruments.

Kyle’s love of jazz was eventually fostered while attending Temple University in Philadelphia, PA. Upon his move to the city, he began to make a name for himself, performing regularly at the area’s top clubs & venues, and was apart of Temple’s award-winning Jazz and Lab Bands.

In 2008, Kyle decided to take his career to the greatest music city in the world, New Orleans. There he completed his master’s degree at the University of New Orleans on a full-tuition award. While at UNO, he took the time to co-lead and write several arrangements for the UNO Jazz Orchestra. He now continues to be an in-demand musician on both saxophone and keyboard.

Over the course of his career, he has shared the stage with DJ Logic, Nickie Glaspie, G Love, Marcia Ball, Jimmy Heath, Clark Terry, Ellis Marsalis, Luis Bonilla, Jason Marsalis, and Gerald Veasley among others. Kyle has also been active as an educator, and was a staff member of the New Orleans Jazz Institute’s inaugural music school program, the Saturday Music School, helping to develop the school’s jazz curriculum for young music students.

You can follow Kyle on Instagram @kylecrippsmusic

I only require an electric outlet, I can supply the rest of the equipment. If a sound system is provided, the harpejji has two 1/4" outputs.
Kyle also has the ability to broadcast live from his home studio for socially-distanced events.