Into the Green — Charles de Lint

The harp was a gift Jim Jacky Lantern's, fey kin, as was the music Angharad pulled from its strings. She used it in her journeys through the Kingdoms of the Green Isles, to wake the magic of the Summerblood where it lay sleeping in folk who had never known they had it.

Harping, she knew, was one third of a bard's spells. Harping, and poetry; and the road that led...