Lose Your Blues in Boston this weekend ...

North Carolina next week ...

And then there's a visit to the Burnt Food Museum ...

You can check out my tour schedule for shows in the Boston Area (Natick - Jan. 7) and in Asheville, NC (Jan. 15) ... or you can see all my tourdates at my schedule ... but THEN then you sit back, turn on your TV or your internet and take a "Visit to the Burnt Food Museum" ...

If you consider yourself a "Foodie" I have a culinary treat for you this week! In addition to playing harp, I'm well-known for ... er ... burning food.

My "Burnt Food Museum" is infamous in some circles (mostly burnt circles).

Normally, BFM is in storage, but last Thanksgiving we set it up for Boston's Channel 5 as part of their "Unusual Collections" show - and that show will be airing this Friday!

And FOR ONE DAY ONLY, Fri. Jan. 6th "Chronicle" "Collections" show will be posted on the "Chronicle" website including A Visit to the Burnt Food Museum with Deborah Henson-Conant!

So alert all distant family, friends, and Hollywood talent agents.
Join us on line Mon. Jan 9th for One Day Only!

UPCOMING SHOWS!

ASHEVILLE, N.C.! SUN. JAN. 15th in Asheville, NC! Asheville, NC has a beautiful new theatre called the Altamont. I'm already in love with this place! GET HALF-PRICE TIX! Use the code "DHC" (it stands for "Deborah Henson-Conant") Read more about the show or BUY TICKETS RIGHT NOW I got to talking with owner Brian Lee, and he said they have a multi-camera video set up that would allow them to make DVDs of shows and I said ... let's make a DVD of this show! So if you buy VIP tix, you get to come early, schmooze a little with me, choose your preferred seating and you'll get a DVD of the show (OK, not that night -- we'll need to edit it first - but there'll be one with you name on it!) So Asheville folks this is my first performance in the area since my torrential-rain appearance at the Brevard amphitheater 5 or so years ago. I promise you won't get rained on in this show! THE BRAND NEW ALTAMONT THEATRE is an intimate listening room for the serious music lover with a great sound system and the best acoustics in town. Originally built in 1895, it’s the winner of the 2011 Griffin Award for Adaptive Re-Use, the combination of "old" and "new" gives the theatre its identity. With huge storefront windows, the original hardwood floors, you would never know this building was not originally made the way you see it today.Award for Adaptive Re-Use, the combination of "old" and "new" gives the theatre its identity. With huge storefront windows, the original hardwood floors, you would never know this building was not originally made the way you see it today.

Happy New Year!

This is my year of infinite possibility! I started the year unveiling my new self to me - a self without the long colorful dreadlocks I've had for years.

On Thanksgiving, I'd walked into the bathroom and clipped them off, one by one.

It's amazing to walk away from something I've come to consider "me" and realize I'm walking towards the realm of infinite possibility.

I invite every one of you to join me in that exploration this year... to let go of things you've fiercely guarded as 'you' and see what parts of yourself that liberates -- parts you didn't even know were you.

And I hope I see you at shows - or online - I have a bunch of shows coming up, starting this weekend. Come and say hello - and tell me what you're letting go of in your own life.

Here's to the infinite possibility of 2012!

p.s. the photo above was taken by Katya Herman, who was sitting behind me as I rehearsed in an empty Mechanics Hall in Worcester - one of North America's most beautiful acoustic halls - for my New Year's Eve show.

Note that, way in the back of the hall, in that tiny window, you can see my husband, Jonathan, at the controls of the sound board.

"Lose Your Blues" with me This Saturday!
Jan. 7th at The Center for Arts in Natick!

There are still some seats left (about 25 at last count) for my first show of 2012, just outside of Boston.

It's an all Blues-Inspired show and you can Read more about it here or you can just go buy tickets right now.

I had a lovely interview with journalist Faith Mayer earlier this week about why I love the Blues and how I ended up playing it on electric harp. You can read that story here

If it looks like tix are sold out, you can call the theater at 508.647.0097, or just check back in an hour. At this writing, they said they're planning to open up one more section of seats around noon today.

This first show of 2012 is a special Blues-Inspired show for that "oh-please-let-me-down-gently" post-New-Year's weekend that starts NOW!

The Blues can be fast, slow, funny, romantic. And while I do love a good "My Baby Left Me" that's just part of the Blues.

I love to dance over to the other side of the tracks, too, and sing Blues about the Dogs of Somerville, the noble Watermelon, Elvis’s first day in Heaven ... and the fine art of romancing your favorite chef --as always, peppered with stories harping on the good things in life.

So if you've got the "Short Days of Winter are Settin' in Now" Blues, or the "Maxed Out My Credit Card" Blues or them "I Need a Holiday from the Holidays" Blues -- come on down to TCAN and boost the music of your immune system with some Red-Hot Harp for the cold January Blues THIS SATURDAY!

I've invited special guest-harpist from UK Katya Herman to join me onstage for a couple numbers. Katya's here studying with me on a 3-month intensive so we've had a lot of time to play the Blues!

And I'm hoping my husband, Jonathan Wyner will bring his TUBA! If you've never heard two harps and tuba, you ain't ... er ... ever hear two harps and tuba. Here are some photos from previous shows. I hope you can make it! (We'll try to get video and photos and post them, if you can't)