How to Carve Turkey with a Harp: 1. Download these two Holiday Collections 2. Roast your turkey 3. Play the collections on your MP3 player of choice 4. Carve carefully, sing along and dance only after you put the knife down. START HERE It's nearly Thanksgiving! And if music be the food of love...then make sure you have a great Thanksgiving Dinner playlist! And I want to join you in the kitchen and the dining room with these two new download collections -- one to raise your spirits while you cook or travel and the other to mellow you out while you eat Deborah Henson-Conant is a Grammy-nominated recording artist, and the world's premiere electric harpist. Together with the CAMAC Harp company, she developed the world's first commercially-produced carbon fibre electric harp which now carries her name, the "DHC Blue-Light." Upcoming Shows: I'm so excited about these next 3 events!!! Atlanta: Sun. Dec. 4, 2011: Blues & Passion Workshop: I'm launching a new workshop combining "Jumpstart the Blues" with "Passion in Performance" on Sun. Dec. 4th from 2-5 pm in collaboration with the Atlanta Harp Center. I'm thrilled to combine these two ideas in one workshop PLUS give folks a sneak peek at my "Blues by the Dozen" project. Worcester, MA: Sat. Dec. 31, 2011: "First Night" Worcester: Five years ago, I played at "First Night Worcester" & fell in love with the organization, the audience and the gem-like theater. This year I'm returning, but in the incredible "Mechanics Hall," world renowned as one of the most gorgeous acoustic halls in North America! Stay tuned for details! Buttons go on sale in late November. Natick, MA: Sat. Jan. 7, 2012: Folks always ask me to play more Blues, and this is the show where it's gonna happen - at TCAN "The Center for Arts in Natick"!! So get your tickets now! Visit the Tourpage for all shows including tix NOW ON SALE for my "It's Almost Spring" Tour to the West Coast, Michigan, Montana, Idaho, Virginia and other places I can't even remember right now! I want to come to YOUR house for Thanksgiving!!! I want to hang out in the kitchen and chop your potatoes, hear you talk about what's challenging you these days, and what you're looking forward to. I want to smell the onions cooking, hear the doorbell ring, see who's coming for dinner. I want to be there when you sit down to eat -- and I want to be the music playing in your Thanksgiving. So I'm REALLY excited about my two download collections we made especially for holiday dining! Because now I CAN be part of your Thanksgiving! My lovely assistant, Beatriz, and I picked our favorite cuts from all my CDs for two collections - one for cooking, traveling and preparing (upbeat songs, vocals and toe-tap Blues) -- and the other for sitting down to eat (tasty, delicate and savory instrumentals!) We introduced these download collections last year and got such great comments that we're offering them again, along with two Holiday collections, a love song collection and a Celtic collection, all at my Download Collections page. Check them out, listen to the whole collection, download a couple cuts for free, buy the collection and then bring me along in the car, with the pumpkin pie wedged in a box in the back seat. I'll sing encouraging songs as the traffic slows, and you can belt out the chorus with me as things starts zipping along again. I want to be part of the part of the Thanksgiving you bring to wherever you're going! And thank you! Thank you! Thank you for sharing my life and passion for music! p.s. I'll be posting recent thanks, plus photos and stories from November's show on my blog this weekend, so please check out my blog at Wordpress.com. Sneak Peek at Upcoming Sale! Our "Week of Thanks" sale officially starts this Friday, and we'll send you a reminder for sure, but YOU can get a head start RIGHT NOW by using the code "THANKS" at my online catalog!