Ashley Toman

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Upcoming Appearances

  • Saturday, May 26, 2012
  • 5:00PM - private wedding ceremony
  • Natchez, MS
  • Sunday, May 27, 2012
  • 11:30AM - National World War II Museum- Stage Door Canteen Brunch
  • New Orleans, LA
  • Sunday, May 27, 2012
  • 2:00PM - Windsor Court- Afternoon Tea
  • New Orleans, LA
  • Sunday, May 27, 2012
  • 6:30PM - City Park- private wedding
  • New Orleans, LA
  • Sunday, June 03, 2012
  • 11:30AM - National World War II Museum- Stage Door Canteen Brunch
  • New Orleans, LA
  • Saturday, June 09, 2012
  • 4:00PM - Vermilionville Chapel- private wedding
  • Lafayette, LA
  • Sunday, June 10, 2012
  • 11:30AM - National World War II Museum- Stage Door Canteen Brunch
  • New Orleans, LA
  • Friday, June 15, 2012
  • 6:30PM - Saint Aloysius Church- private wedding
  • Baton Rouge, LA
  • Saturday, June 16, 2012
  • 4:30PM - Roosevelt Hotel- private wedding
  • New Orleans, LA
  • Sunday, June 17, 2012
  • 11:30AM - National World War II Museum- Stage Door Canteen Brunch
  • New Orleans, LA
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Past Appearances

  • Tuesday, May 22, 2012
  • 6:00PM - The Roosevelt Hotel- private event
  • New Orleans, LA
  • Sunday, May 20, 2012
  • 11:30AM - National World War II Museum- Stage Door Canteen Brunch
  • New Orleans, LA
  • Sunday, May 20, 2012
  • 3:30PM - The Victorian- private event
  • Saint Francisville, LA
  • Saturday, May 19, 2012
  • 6:30PM - Acadian Village Chapel- private wedding
  • Lafayette, LA
  • Sunday, May 13, 2012
  • 11:30AM - National World War II Museum- Stage Door Canteen Brunch
  • New Orleans, LA
  • Saturday, May 12, 2012
  • 4:30PM - Ritz Carlton- private wedding ceremony
  • New Orleans, LA
  • Saturday, May 12, 2012
  • 6:30PM - St. Mary's Assumption- private wedding
  • New Orleans, LA
  • Saturday, May 12, 2012
  • 12:00PM - City Church- Tea
  • New Orleans, LA
  • Friday, May 11, 2012
  • 2:00PM - Windsor Court- Afternoon Tea
  • New Orleans, LA
  • Sunday, May 06, 2012
  • 11:30AM - National World War II Museum- Stage Door Canteen Brunch
  • New Orleans, LA
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Location:
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Travel Radius:
Will travel up to 100 miles from Baton Rouge.
Pay Range:
$200-$400 per event
Member Since:
2006
Primary Category:
Classical Harp
Additional Categories:
Broadway Harp, Celtic Harp, Chamber Music Harp, Harp, Pop Harp
Influences:
Not Available

Description

Ashley Toman is a full time professional freelance harpist in the Baton Rouge, New Orleans, Northshore, and Lafayette areas, though her career as a harpist has taken her all throughout the United States and Europe. She holds a Bachelor's and Master of Music degrees from the prestigious Eastman School of Music in Rochester New York. She has also performed with the Louisiana Philharmonic and the Baton Rouge Symphony.

Ashley is a fan of all types of musc and plays everything from Bach to the Beatles. Her Metallica Tribute Harp Duo "Harptallica" has been featured on the WGN Chicago Network as well as Fox News, and has toured throughout the United States and Europe.


Ashley started playing the harp as well as her study in music at the age of 15 in Traverse City Michigan. Hard work, a lot of practice, and discipline got her into the Eastman School of Music two and a half years later where she received her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in harp performance.

For five summers she was the harpist in residence at the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island Michigan where she performed daily three hours a day. It is there where she gained priceless experience playing weddings every week and where she built up her gigantic repertoire of music that spands over eight hours. She also performs at the Capitol Center Hitlon in Baton Rouge, occasionally at the Windsor Court Hotel in New Orleans, and every Sunday for brunch at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans.

Even though she tours, teaches, and plays with the symphony, her favorite jobs to play on the harp are her freelance jobs of weddings, parties, dinners, teas, and receptions. Feel free to call or email her for a price quote or to set up a complimentary consultation.

Song List

  • Time to Say Goodbye
  • Blue Skies
  • Climb Every Mountain
  • A Kiss to Build a Dream On
  • Always
  • Serenade in Blue
  • Rolling in the Deep
  • Fireflies
  • On the Sunny Side of the Street
  • Clair de Lune
  • When the Saints go Marching In
  • In the Mood
  • Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White
  • Tuxedo Junction
  • Chatanooga Choo Choo
  • Dancing in the Dark
  • Till the End of Time
  • Moonlight Sonata
  • Panis Angelicus
  • The Prayer
  • Canon in D
  • The Swan
  • Don't Want to Miss a Thing - Aerosmith
  • I'm in the Mood for Love
  • Skylark
  • Deep Purple
  • Hero - Mariah Carey
  • Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring
  • Meditation from Thais
  • Clair de Lune
  • Margaritaville
  • Malaguena - Lecouna
  • Pavane for a Dead Princess
  • Crazy
  • Stardust
  • Misty
  • Send in the Clowns
  • I Write the Songs
  • Lady in Red
  • Through the Eyes of Love
  • Fur Elise
  • Sheep May Safely Graze
  • Somewhere my Love
  • Somewhere Over the Rainbow
  • Girl with the Flaxen Hair
  • Moonlight Sonata
  • Air on the G String
  • Arioso - Bach
  • Always
  • Always on my Mind
  • The Long and Winding Road
  • If I Fell
  • Memory
  • All I Ask of You
  • Music of the Night
  • On My Own
  • Try to Remember
  • Till There Was You
  • Rainbow Connection
  • All the Way
  • From this Moment
  • Forever Love
  • 18th Variation on a Theme by Paganini
  • Handel Concerto in B Flat Major
  • First Arabesque
  • Trumpet Voluntary
  • Sheep May Safely Graze
  • Don't Cry for Me Argentina
  • Sunrise Sunset
  • Edelweiss
  • Autumn Leaves
  • Unforgetable
  • When I Fall in Love
  • Nothing Else Matters
  • Open Arms
  • Ode to Joy
  • Hornpype from Water Music
  • Danny Boy
  • Stairway to Heaven
  • Fields of Gold
  • What a Wonderful World
  • Theme from Love Story
  • Vilvadi Four Seasons
  • Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
  • Tara's Theme from Gone with the Wind
  • Nocturne from A Midsummer's Night's Dream
  • Beauty and the Beast
  • Sleeping Beauty Waltz
  • Theme from Harry Potter
  • Speak Softly Love
  • La Vie en Rose
  • Body and Soul
  • Ebb Tide
  • At Last
  • When you Wish Upon a Star
  • Ave Maria
  • The Keeper of the Stars
  • Valentine
  • Moon River
  • Somewhere in Time
  • A Time for Us
  • To a Wild Rose
  • Greensleves
  • Tennesse Waltz
  • Emily
  • Tenderly
  • The Very Thought of You
  • Largo from Xerses
  • Scheherezade
  • O Mio Bambino Caro
  • Shenandoah
  • The Twelfth of Never
  • Musetta's Waltz
  • Grenada
  • Smile
  • Sonatine for Harp
  • Castle on a Cloud
  • Once Upon a Time
  • The Way you Look Tonight
  • Wind Benneath my Wings
  • Moonglow
  • Everything I do I do it for you
  • As Time Goes By
  • Bless the Broken Road
  • I Cross my Heart
  • For Sentimental Reasons
  • Anniversary Waltz
  • Unchained Melody
  • Bewitched
  • Reverie
  • Theme from Titanic
  • Smoke gets in your Eyes
  • Moonlight in Vermont
  • Night and Day
  • When Irish Eyes are Smiling
  • Chances Are
  • My Funny Valentine
  • Theme from Gone with the Wind
  • Time after Time
  • It's Been a Long, Long Time
  • A Time for Love
  • Tea for Two
  • Everybody Loves Somebody
  • I Left my Heart in San Francisco
  • My Way
  • Aint Misbehavin
  • Don't Get Around Much Anymore
  • Strangers on the Shore
  • Ruby
  • Here, There and Everywhere
  • I Get a Kick out of You
  • My Ship
  • Fascinatin Rhythm
  • It Had to be You
  • Stella by Starlight
  • Have I Told you Lately
  • Love is a Very Splendored Thing
  • Sleepy Lagoon
  • Evergreen
  • Here, There, and Everywhere
  • Angel
  • If
  • I Fall in Love too Easily
  • Panis Angelicus
  • Pie Jesu
  • Dream
  • Softly as a Morning Sunrise
  • Somebody Loves Me
  • On Eagles Wings
  • Where there is Love
  • Annie's Song
  • Fools Rush In
  • Secret Love
  • Georgia on My Mind
  • Longer
  • Spring is Here
  • I Will Always Love you- Taylor Dayne
  • Lover Come back to me
  • Can you Feel the Love Tonight
  • Sunshine on My Shoulders
  • In My Life
  • Elixir of Love
  • The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face - Roberta Flack
  • Perfidia
  • Rhapsody in Blue
  • There's a Small Hotel
  • Because
  • Goodbye to Romance - Ozzy Osbourne
  • Ave Maria - Schubert/Bach/Gounod
  • Traumerei
  • Plaisir d'Amour
  • November Rain
  • Yesterday
  • Pomp and Circumstance
  • Theme from Jupiter from The Planets
  • Wonderful Tonight
  • Just the Way you Are - Billy Joel
  • We've Only Just Begun
  • Imagine - John Lennon
  • The Prayer
  • Summertime - Gershwin
  • Your Song - Elton John
  • The Lord's Prayer - Malotte
  • L-O-V-E
  • Pavane - Faure
  • You are so Beautiful
  • O Perfect Love
  • Dream a Little Dream of me
  • The Rainbow Connection
  • Bidin' My Time
  • I'll Be Seeing You
  • An American in Paris
  • Do You Know What it Means to Miss New Orleans
  • More
  • The Wind
  • Memories
  • Moonlight Serenade
  • Across the Universe
  • The Fool on the Hill
  • Old Cape Cod
  • Blue Moon
  • A Whole New World
  • Think of Me
  • Evening of Roses
  • I am My Beloved's
  • On the Jordan
  • Just a Closer Walk with Thee
  • Doxology
  • Be Thou My Vision
  • Rock of Ages
  • Cry Me a River
  • Cottage for Sale
  • Moonlight Becomes You
  • All of Me
  • Some Enchanted Evening
  • Sunrise, Sunset
  • Wait Til You See Her
  • Dona Nobis Pacem
  • Long Ago and Far Away
  • On The Wings of Love
  • Paduana Alla Venetiana
  • My Love is like a Red ,Red, Rose
  • I'll Remember April
  • Someday I'll Find You
  • Nadia's Theme
  • Tonight I Celebrate My Love
  • River Flows in You
  • Hymne - Vangelis
  • Amazing Grace
  • Begin the Beguine
  • Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
  • Anything Goes
  • How Beautiful
  • I Left My Heart at the Stage Door Canteen
  • Through the Years
  • The Nearness of You
  • Cheek to Cheek
  • Because you Love Me - Celine Dion
  • White Horse - Taylor Swift
  • When the Saints go Marching in
  • Un Bel di Vedremo - from Madame Butterfly
  • Vissi d'arte, Vissi d'amore - from Tosca
  • Fly me to the Moon

Available For:

Anniversaries, Bachelor Parties, Bachelorette Parties, Banquets, Birthday Parties, Children's Birthday Parties, Celebrations, Christenings, Christmas Parties, Church Services, Clubs, Cocktail Parties, Community Events, Conventions, Corporate Functions, Dinner Dances, Festivals, Fund Raisers, Funerals, Graduation Parties, Grand Openings, Picnic, Private Parties, Proms, Restaurants, Reunions, Weddings, Wedding Ceremonies, Wedding Cocktail Hours, Wedding Receptions...and more.

Feedback

  • A wonderful contribution to a beautiful evening! -- Sara E, New Orleans, LA, 11/26/2011
  • Ashley was great! I didn't get much of a chance to actually see her or talk to her, but the harp sounded great and she was very accommodating and played exactly the songs i requested with great beauty! Thanks Ashley! -- Christy M, Lafayette, LA, 11/4/2011
  • It was everything we imagined it would be and much more. Thanks. -- Jodie G, Gonzales, LA, 6/25/2011
  • Ashley was a delight to work with. -- Leigh S, White Castle, LA, 4/29/2011
  • Ashely is a world class harpists. Not only is her musical talent superb, she is a wonderful person and very sincere in helping provide the best music for your event possible. Her performance at our wedding established it as a stylish and classic event. Chris and I recommend Ashley highly for your wedding or any other event you may choose to use her talents to make your event successful and beautiful. -- Gary W, New Orleans, LA, 2/19/2011
  • Ashley did an exceptional job. She was on time, professional, and made our wedding extra special. -- Aubrey P, Baton Rouge, LA, 10/23/2010
  • Ashley Plays beautifully, is very prompt and professional as well! Ashley was a wonderful addition to the wedding ceremony and we are so happy she was available to play! -- Jeanie L, New Orleans, LA, 10/16/2010
  • Ashley was simply amazing! She looked beautiful and performed spectacularly well! Beyond that, she was lovely to deal with leading up to the event and I consider her to be much more than a hired musician! Thank you again, Ashley!!! -- Mary D, New Orleans, LA, 10/1/2010
  • She was wonderful. I highley recommend her. Debbie Anderson -- Debbie A, Baton Rouge, LA, 12/5/2009
  • Ashley, You did an outstanding job of making my special day so wonderful! Thank you for everything! Thank you for being a part of a day my husband and I will never forget! -- Jessica H, French Settlement, LA, 5/29/2009
  • Ashley was prompt, delightful, and very talented. Such a gem! -- Laura B, New Orleans, LA, 11/1/2008
  • Ashley did a wonderful job. The music was beautiful and everyone was very pleased. I would definitely hire Ashley again for future events -- Jennifer M, Lafayette, LA, 11/24/2007
  • Excellent Performance and very professional! Would hire again. -- Judy J, Baton Rouge, LA, 2/13/2007
  • Ashley is extremely talented and added so much to my ceremony. People continuously comment to me about how beautiful the music was. I would and have recommended her, and my brother has already booked her for his upcoming wedding! -- Tara C, New Orleans, LA, 1/13/2007
  • Ashley performed beautifully for our party. Her presentation was excellent all of our guest truly enjoyed her music. Thank you. -- Marian B, New Orleans, LA, 12/24/2006
  • I never spoke to Ashley personally. All our communication was done via email. She was very helpful in suggesting the music selections. She was very easy to work with. I would definitely recommend her to others. -- Jennifer K, White Castle, LA, 10/28/2006
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