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Sept. 30, 2011
On the road again!
I'm
on tour for the next month! I post daily on Twitter and
Facebook so
if you're not already following, please do!
And if you're in Colorado, Kansas, Ohio, West
Virginia, North Carolina,
Florida, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Connecticut or Massachusetts
come to the show and give me a hello afterwards. I'd
love to
see you! If you can't come, send your friends and we'll
take pictures afterwards to say hello!
Below is a Bird's
Eye view of what I'm up to.
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WORKSHOP
Tonight
in DENVER: "Hand-to-Hand" Workshop
on Baroque Flamenco - (Fri.
Sept. 30)
 A
printed page of music only gives you so much. As the composer of this piece,
I
can
pass
on
so much more hand-to-hand! The tricks, the tips, the first-hand experience.
Comisserating over the hard parts, sharing the shortcuts,
the new ways of thinking that
help you cross the threshold of learning. And you get to ask direct
questions about specifics, from the big-picture to the smallest detail. Read
about
the
piece.
Read more about the workshop. Sign up to
be there in
person. Fri.
Sept.
30 from 7-10pm or call the store for tix at 303-722-6081
CONCERT
Tomorrow in DENVER: A Solo show with a Special Twist (Sat.
Oct. 1 at 7:30pm)
It's been 5 long years since I played Denver, and I'm psyched to be back! I
love the Kolacny Music Shop folks
who are sponsoring my show. This time I get to come back with a brand new chrome
harp, a bunch
of new songs, a new musical toy called a "looper," and a new friend
I made on a national TV show this year, who'll be my special musical guest
for
a personalized number about a wild experience we shared. Learn
more or get tickets or call the store for tix at 303-722-6081
CONCERT
Tuesday in Liberal, KANSAS (Tue. Oct. 4):
The state bird is the Western Meadowlark. The
main exports are Cattle,
wheat, sorghum, soybeans, hogs, corn. And I'll bet they've
never hosted an electric harpist for a solo show before! If you know where
Liberal, Kansas is, call Mike Brack for tickets to the show at (620) 482-0466.
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SYMPHONY
SHOW in West Virginia with the Ohio Valley Symphony
(Sat. Oct. 8th
- 8pm)
I
spent the 4th of July with the Ohio Valley Symphony in Gallipolis,
Ohio. We had such a great time, that I now have the pleasure
of kicking off their
2011-2012
Season right across the river in Point Pleasant, WV. More info here.
BARN
CONCERT in Efland, N.C. (Sun. Oct. 9th - 3:30 pm)
 I
went to Junior High near Winston-Salem, N.C. left suddenly
and lost touch with everyone, including my big high-school
crush, Fred. 20 years later
we literally bumped into each other browsing through the music bins
at a store in Boston. In those twenty years, I'd become
a professional musician & Fred
had become an architect. We stayed touch and now he's invited me to give
a very special, very intimate concert in his "Barn" (and when an
architect says 'barn,' it's nothing like the one my grandfather piled his
hay in!) See pictures & order
tix here.
Tix are $25 but use the SECRET CODE "FRIENDS" to
get $10 off each ticket!
WORKSHOP
on Creativity in Greensboro, NC (Sun. Oct. 16th - 5:30-9:30pm)
The NC Harp Ensemble is a new and growing group that provides
unique performance and educational opportunties to harpist-members of varied
ages. .
They're sponsoring FIREWORKS for the Creative Spirit in Greensboro, NC
on Sunday, October 16 -- read
more and sign up here,
or on the home page of the NC
Harp Ensemble.
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Rainstorms, long
drives, bears,
theaters, meeting cool people on planes - if you're following on Twitter and Facebook you
already know a lot of this!
Last
Tuesday's Workshop in PA: "Fireworks
for the Creative Spirit" was wonderful! More than 'hands-on'
- it was more like 'body-on' in a great new theater in Pottstown
PA, an intimate group of creative artists of all ages,
all with one thing in common: each is passionate about their
own artistic expression. Pictures to come. My road
manager and travel companion is harpist Trista
Hill who drove
us all the way from Pottstown, PA to Columbus, OH in one fell swoop
and only took one detour to Akron. It's wonderful to travel with
a friend. |
- What are rental-car
guys like at home? Do they try to talk their wives into extra insurance?
- GPS's present
the world linearly - maps give you the big picture, and the impression
that you can
fix your own mistakes.
- Pennsylvania is
wide and lush and green, Denver is dry with an immense pale, wide
sky
- People create
changes in small communities that politicians in Washington
could only dream of.
- It's been a long
time since I was on a road-trip with a girlfriend. You get to cover
a lot of ground, both literally
and figuratively. |
 Guitar legend Steve Vai calls her the "Jimi Hendrix of the harp." The New York Times credits her with shaping the serenely Olympian harp into a jazz instrument by warping it closer to the Blues."
Deborah Henson-Conant's music ranges from Blues to Flamenco, in a relentless exploration of the instrument that was invented specifically for her by the CAMAC company in France: a 32-string, 11-pound electric harp she slings on like an electric guitar. She combines music, theater and humor - with a voice, which has been compared to Carly Simon and an onstage energy that's been compared to Elvis Presley and Chuck Berry. "The instrument forced me to rip apart any preconceptions. Nobody had ever tried to get these sounds out of a harp, so I simply had to stop thinking of it as a harp, and open my mind to everything else it could be," says the composing performer. That led to the development of music that's won her a GRAMMY nomination, PBS television music special, first prize in the International Songwriting Competition, and invitations to perform worldwide as a solo performer and with orchestras. |
I play the harp that was -- literally -- created for me by CAMAC Harps: 
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