These are some of today's players who are active in the current revival of wire harping. Most have links to their own websites.

Siobhán Armstrong (Ireland) founded and chairs the Historical Harp Society of Ireland. She performs and records internationally with the most prestigious period instrument ensembles and conductors of historical repertoire.

Cynthia Cathcart (USA) is working to bring the music of the wire-strung harp to a wide audience of listeners and players. Formally trained as a classical musician, she brings to the Gaelic harp nearly 20 years experience teaching music. 

Simon Chadwick now lives in St Andrews and studied both physics and archaeology at university and applies this training to the early Gaelic harp,  the music and traditions of which he has studied since 1998.

Paul Dooley (Ireland) is one of the very few Irish people who play the Irish harp in its historical form and style, hestudied the construction of medieval Irish harps in Dublin during the early 1980s and has built several harps.

Ann Heymann (USA) is the pioneer who returned the wire harp to a living tradition. An uncompromised approach lead to her discovery of lost techniques and styles, demonstrated in acclaimed recordings and essential tutor books. 

Alison Kinnaird (Scotland) is an important figure in the revival of the gut-strung Scottish lever harp and has long collaborated with Ann Heymann. Co-author of Tree of Strings - Crann nan Teud, she champions both gut and wire-strung Scottish harp traditions, as well as bray harp.

Karen Marshalsay (Scotland) learnt from Alison Kinnaird and Bill Taylor, and now plays gut, bray, wire and Paraguayan harps. Clarsach tutor at Sgoil Chiùil na Gaidhealtachd, wire/bray tutor at the RSAMD and an active player and composer. 

Violaine Mayor (Brittany) is a prominent Breton wire-harp player, adapting historical techniques to traditional Breton music. She and her harp-making husband Joël Herrou work with Hent Telenn Breizh, promoting the Gaelic harp in Brittany

Javier Sáinz (Spain) plays clàrsach, and renaissance and Spanish baroque harps. Concentrating on historical techniques and repertoires from 16th and 17th century Britain and Spain, he is famous for his sparkling ornamentation.

Bill Taylor (Scotland) specialises in the historical harp music of Ireland, Scotland and Wales. The foremost interpreter of the Robert ap Huw harp manuscript, he explores late-medieval and Renaissance repertoire on the different harps of that period

 Jochen Vogel (Germany)is a contemporary singer-songwriter from Germany. Playing a replica 17th century Irish harp using traditional fingernail techniques, his music is innovative and modern. 

Gráinne Yeats (Ireland) has always been interested in traditional music and songs as well as classical music. She has retired from her international concert career, but still teaches in workshops, master classes, courses and festivals.