VIDEOS! THANK YOU For Selling Us Out!!!

Last Saturday's show was a sell-out! Thank you to everyone who came! Below are some videos from the show - taken by audience members!

Above, a link to last Saturday's 2-Harp version of "Dogs of Somerville" and below a link to a story and new song "Bonnyrig Me, Baby!" about an old automotive tradition that's now nearly lost.

Thank you to our Audience Videographers!!! Just before last Saturday night's sold-out show at the Center for Arts in Natick, I walked on stage with two little Flipcams and asked if anyone in the front row wanted to become an instant videographer.

Two intrepid audience-members took me up on the offer and created some GREAT videos! (Did I get their names?? No! So if you are them, or you know them, email us their names so we can credit them on the videos!)

And this just in!!! There's a video of "Purple Haze" for Two-Harps-and-TUBA! With my special guests, Katya Herman and Jonathan Wyner.

We've posted the footage as private videos on YouTube, but YOU can take a look at them and share them from the links (they're just not publicly searchable).

And by the way, this is all unedited video - we're hoping to make some edits and repost them publicly in the next few weeks.

AND WHO'S THAT OTHER GIRL WITH THE HARP???

You'll notice two harpists in the video above, yes? Well, one is me - and the other is my student Katya Herman.

Katya's here on an intensive study program that allows foreign students to come study with me for 3-6 months on-site. That means a fairly rigorous lesson-and-practice plan, along with often taking part in shows or video projects I'm doing.

Katya, who's from the UK, is nearing the end of her studies. We've been working on jazz harp (on a big concert harp), and on learning electric harp technique - and she's joined me for several shows. Last weekend she had a huge part in the show, playing 4 numbers, including the two above. Don't miss her virtuoso whistling in the "Dogs of Somerville" as well as her singing, playing and top-hat wielding!

You can see all my tourdates at my schedule.

THANK YOU FOR THE ROSES! .

Remember when I said I walked out on stage before the show? Well, laying on the stage was a beautiful bouquet of white roses, a gift of one of my favorite audience members. He'd also brought me a beautiful bouquet for my birthday 11-11-11, but I was smart enough this time to photograph them, here in my kitchen:

Asheville, Here I Come!
Sun. Jan. 15th • Altamont Thtr • 7:30 PM
Tell Your Friends in North Carolina!
Send Them to This Link

I was so inspired by the early sell-out of last-weekend’s show that now I want to sell out every show of 2012! Scary, hunh? Well, there's no way I can do it alone, so if you want to help, I'd LOVE it! See “How Can I Help Promote a Show” below. And Thank you!

I’m VERY excited about my visit to Asheville this weekend. I’ll be playing at the new Altamont Theatre in downtown Asheville and we’ll be videotaping the show for a live DVD.

HALF-PRICE TIX Use the code "DHC"
(it stands for "Deborah Henson-Conant" )
And try to do it soon - if the code doesn't work, it means they've sold out of the half-price tix)

Read more about the show
Call for tix: (828) 348-5327
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VIP PRE-SHOW RECEPTION:

For those why buy VIP tix, we’ll have exclusive (handmade by Beatriz!) backstage passes, preferred seating (you get into the theater before everyone else and get to claim your seat!) and a chance to hang out backstage before the show, which I'm really looking forward to!

TWEETUP:

My new PR team is trying to arrange a special Saturday Night “Tweet up” in Asheville -- so make sure you’re following me on Twitter to find out where/when.

HOW CAN I HELP PROMOTE THE SHOW??

Learn How Right Here!

A week before my last show, when the idea of a sell-out was only fantasy, my friend Rachael asked “What can I do to help sell tickets? Could you make me, like, a letter-sized poster I could send out to my friends?”

So I made a letter-sized poster, Rachael sent it to her friends and - Boom! Sales started picking up.

Then another friend asked, “How can I help?” and so I asked my team - Bob, Adam and Beatriz -- if they could help me put together a list of 7 easy things any friends or fans can do to help me get the word out about my shows. It’s actually a great list of what you can do to promote anything you love and you can link to it right here!

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.