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To hear Tiffany Envid play the harp and talk about juggling her career and family life, go to
Envid takes pride in the variety she offers. If she can find piano sheet music for a song, she said, she likely can adapt it to the harp.
At one wedding, she played only Beatles songs; at another, her playlist included “White Wedding,” the 1980s rock song by Billy Idol.
“If something has a rap line or a lot of drums, I can’t do it because I can’t capture that effect on the harp,” she said. “But that’s about it.”
Since the fall, Envid has played an hour a week in the lobby of the Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital at Ohio State University — performances that typically compel passers-by to stop to listen and, inevitably, smile.
After finishing at the hospital on a recent Thursday, she wrapped up the 90-pound harp and rolled it out to the parking lot on a dolly, tipping it up and pushing it into the back of her 15-passenger van (“my race car” she joked) before driving home.
There, her six children and a mountain of laundry awaited her.
Dinner had to be made before she could find time to handle the phone calls and emails required of her part-time job as personnel manager and librarian for the McConnell Arts Center.
“I don’t have time to watch Netflix, that’s for sure,” she said.
Envid said she leans on her faith, realizing that any difficulties she faces are temporary.
Her mother, meanwhile, applauds her daughter’s resilience.
“Sad things happen, and she has overcome a lot of that and just continues going,’” Mrs. Demos said.
“We’re really proud of her; she has achieved a lot.”
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