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THE NEWS!
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Enjoy, Tweet, Recommend and share these articles!
News
about
my guest appearance with the "Flagpole
Radio" folks
tomorrow, Sat. Feb. 4 at 7pm in Newtown, CT:
• In
the Hartford Courant - I loved this article
by writer Susan Dunne so much I wrote a blog about
it!
•
In the “Culture Cache” Blog- A
sweet little post by Linda Tuccio-Koonz of The
News-Times, with a nice video
and photo by one
of my favorite photographers, Craig
Bailey.
•
In the New Haven Register, A
brief, energetic overview of the show by Donna Doherty,
that starts out "Five
minutes into a conversation with Deborah
Henson-Conant,
you want to go right out and get yourself a harp
..." gotta
love an opener like that!!!
About
my solo show next Wednesday in potato country (I
am already getting hungry!) at King Fine Arts Center Wed.
Feb. 8 at 7pm in Burley, ID.
• In
the Magic Valley Times News - A nice article
by journalist Coreen Hart
including some exciting facts about my show I didn't
even know myself, but will now strive to make true
(like Gypsy dancing! Why not!). Plus it is exciting
to be known as Barbarella the Bard ... wow!
• In
the MiniCassia Weekly News Journal -
an overview of my upcoming solo show in Burley, including
the cool, "Bring a Friend" program and the
music-student program I'll be doing the morning of
the show.
HENDRIX
ON HARP
Thanks
to our FABULOUS AUDIENCE VIDEOGRAPHERS at
the Jan. 7th show, here's a video of Hendrix "Purple
Haze" on two harps and Tuba ... which, I believe,
exactly the instrumentation Hendrix originally hoped for
this opus.
This
video just went live on YouTube, so we'd love you to
add comments at the video's YouTube page!
Who
are my intrepid accompanists here, you might ask? Why,
it's Katya
Herman and my own life-and-adventure-partner Jonathan
Wyner.
AM
I GEEK YET??
All
I wanted to was a little checklist. All
I needed to do was type out the steps. Only
I couldn't, because I couldn't figure out how to create
a "Command" symbol on my Mac. An hour later,
I'd figured it out ... and made this tutorial to help
me remember.
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Well...
my friends .. it starts TOMORROW!!!
And
it starts at the Flagpole! Yup, my NEW TOUR starts
at Flagpole
Radio Theatre in
Newtown, CT Saturday, Feb. 4th at 7pm where
I'm the guest for a very cool old-time-type
LIVE radio show! And then .... 
...then
I head to Idaho, Montana, Iowa, Oregon, Washington
State, California, Michigan and Virginia! Click
the image above to see it all!
A
tour is such a huge collaboration of musicians, admin
people, journalists and support people. The new
blog I posted yesterday is about just one of those
people, writer Susan Dunne, who wrote a beautiful feature
highlighting
my
show
with "Flagpole
Radio Café" this weekend and above
you can see the images from photographer Robert
W. Stegmaier (and the fun, tiny one with sunglasses
from photographer Jessica
Sisson.
In
the next week, I'll have 3 shows - so if you're
near these towns, or have friends, please spread the
word! We've been having great audiences in
2012 and it's soooo much fun when the houses are packed
like this!!
CONNECTICUT
- SAT. FEB. 4th - 7pm
 Flagpole
Radio Theater
Newton Town Hall - Sat.Feb.
4 - 7:00 pm
45
Main St. • Newtown, CT 06470
Get info and tix here.
The
Flagpole Radio Cafe show is run like an old radio variety
show, in front of a live audience in the old town hall.
Here's their blog where
you can see some pictures of the Radio Cafe Orchestra
and the Radio Shakespeare Repertory Theater.
If
you live in New England, you remember the sudden
storm last October that knocked out power to thousands
of people - for up to two weeks. Well ... Newtown,
CT, where the Flagpole Radio Theater makes its
home, was in one of the places hit hard by that
storm, and my show, originally scheduled for November,
was resheduled for THIS WEEKEND! So I'm thrilled
to finally be heading down to Newtown - I've checked
the weather and it's gonna be GREAT! No sudden
storms - except for a storm of music, radio skits
and fun from the stage.
IDAHO
- WED. FEB. 8th - 7:30 pm
King Fine Arts Center
2100 Park Ave. Burley Idaho 83318
More information on the Series site
Tix at the door: $20 or through community concert subscription. For more info:
208-678-1798
Season ticket holders get to bring a friend to this concert for free! Call
the number above for more info about that.
MONTANA
- SAT. FEB. 11 - 8:00 pm
With the
Great Falls Symphony
HipHarp
Meets the Symphony
Buy
Season
Tickets or Just
this show
Or
Call for tix: (406) 455-8514
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 KATYA & YANA
have left the building... (sniffle...)
For the
last 4 months, harpist Katya
Herman, from the UK, has been
here on an intensive jazz-harp project - that's included
coaching, performing and sharing a love of great and funny
books. You can see Katya's and my Christmas
Eve Harp Elves YouTube video here, which we created
in my studio on ... well, Christmas Eve.
You
can also see our Dogs
of Somerville performance at "The
Center for Arts in Natick." which was captured by one
of our Spontaneous Audience Videographers (I ran out
with
a couple
of Flipcams just before the show and asked folks in the
front row if they wanted to be S.A.V's and they did a
fabulous job!)
 For
the last two weeks, Yana
Khurumova, from Russia,
joined
us - in a Grande Finale of harp coaching. So
the three of us have spent many coaching hours going
over
the rudiments
of
jazz
harp, including
basic jazz
arrangement,
how to read jazz charts, chord spelling,
how to 'comp,' take solos and play harp 'slap bass' --
and also exploring performance skills, like how to move
from accompanimental-playing style to taking center stage,
how to stand and play, how to create rhythmic glisses,
how to sing and play (or whistle and play!) -- and
finally, how to use a loop pedal.
 One advantage
of their both being here was the chance to practice together,
and switch back and forth between soloing and accompanying
for each other. You can see them working that way together
with two harps in the photo above.
Katya
and Yana encouraged me to create a simple exercise for
developing looper coordination (it's a lot about very accurately-timed
stomping), asked me lots of questions about technical
playing and performance skills, and we tried to get as
much as
possible onto videotape (but don't expect to see any of
it soon ... we took many hours of it, so the curating process
will be a long one!)
Earlier
this week, they both
flew back home to put everything
they've learned into practice. We all miss them --
yes, even the cats do -- they both started sleeping on
Yana's bed with the first night she was here.
Farewell
Katya & Yana!!! I hope we'll play together again
very soon!
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Deborah
Henson-Conant in concert
PHOTO: ©2012 Robert W. Stegmaier / ImageKeepers.US
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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.
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