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CRASH! (My computer crashed the webinar)
Want to find out more about the rescheduled webinar and some great upgrades and discount that I’m offering because of this CRASH? Click stopping to write notes to myself about how to share what it means to play WITH music, and watching as the number of people...
DHC returns to her Jazz roots on the Cape (Press Release)
=============== PRESS RELEASE – Run Through July 1, 2015 =============== Cape Cod Jazz Festival presents: A Night under the Stars at the with Deborah Henson-Conant Wed. July 1st, 2015 at 8:30pm? Wequassett Resort on Pleasant Bay, Chatham, Massachusetts 02633...
Amazing Noodling Breakthrough for Harp Players!
NEWSFLASH from CYBERSPACE: An amazing noodling breakthrough occurred during Deborah Henson-Conant’s Virtual “Hands on Harmony” Beta Retreat earlier this month! After giving the standard “Just start noodling,” direction during a play-along session the Grammy-Nominated...
First-Ever Jazz Harp Masters Lunch in Hollywood
On Monday, May 18th I had lunch with three of the world’s greatest Jazz Harp Masters at a little cafe in Hollywood: Corky Hale, Lori Andrews and Carol Robbins. Corky Hale is the Grande Dame and pioneer of Jazz Harp, with a career spanning decades and recording...Four Jazz Standards on Harp
In a previous blog I talked about the roots of my own jazz journey on harp before I got ‘discovered’ by Charlie Rose (yup! Charlie Rose!), signed to the GRP Jazz label and then evolved to my style combining elements of jazz improv, with Blues, Flamenco,...
JazzHarpTuneList.com – Your KEY to Jazz Standards on Harp
Calling all #harpists! Grab free download of great jazz tunes playable on #harp. Click To Tweet I finally created my own chart so other harpists can learn from my utter confusion. Well … here’s that chart – and if you want it – don’t try...
Reinventing with the IUP Jazz Band
One day in December 2014 I bundled my harp into Renee’s jeep (Renee’s my amazing Personal Assistant) — and she trundled me off to the Jet Blue terminal at Logan. 4 hours later I landed in Pittsburgh, got into a towncar, firmly regretted half the sushi I’d bought...
Play with Fire! Baroque Flamenco Bootcamp -Take 2!
For the past 3 weeks, 30 harpists around the world helped me hone my “Baroque Flamenco” Bootcamp online course so YOU can learn this piece and play with fire! >>Register Now – Course Starts April 8th<< Or just go right to the shopping...
The Mystery of Mastery
What’s that buzz about mastery? That it takes 10,000 hours to master anything? OK. Sure. I believe it. And the point of being a ‘master’ is …? I’m not dissing mastery. I’m just saying that – especially for adult learners – is it really about mastery? Or is it about...
