TEDx Talk ‘from the Harp’ with Deborah Henson-Conant

Apr 3, 2018 | Collaboration, Harping & Harpists, Harps, Instrument (My Instrument), Interviews

Is your dream taking FOREVER to come to fruition? Check out this TEDx story Click To Tweet Share this with your friends who love music, or stories – and especially stories with music. Share it with children to show them how ideas can come together and grow into... read more

[Press Release] Deborah Henson-Conant LIVE at Celebration Barn, Sat. July 27th in Maine.

May 21, 2019 | Events, Press Release | 0 comments

======== Press Release: Please run through July 27, 2019 ======== Grammy-Nominated vocalist and electric harpist Deborah Henson-Conant (“DHC”) travels the world with the instrument she invented – the “DHC Electric Harp” –  but it... read more

My Mother taught me MUSIC

May 14, 2019 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Hip Harp Academy, Mom | 0 comments

This year I continued a long-held tradition of performing a concert in honor of my mother – and this time I did it direct from my studio on Facebook LIVE. My fans and friends got to enjoy the show in their living rooms, kitchens, decks – wherever they... read more

How I met my mother

May 11, 2019 | I Remember..., Mom

Join electric harpist & vocalist Deborah Henson-Conant from her studio for a LIVE STUDIO CONCERT on Saturday May 11, 2019 at 8PM EDT. Sign up HERE to get reminders AND  a replay link if you missed the show! [First posted May 14, 2017, updated May 11, 2019] This is... read more

Facebook LIVE Concert in Honor of my Mother – REPLAY available NOW!

May 9, 2019 | Events, Performance | 0 comments

Please Join me for a Full Replay of my 2019 Mother’s Day concert streamed via Facebook Live from from my studio just outside Boston I have long had a tradition of playing Mother’s Day shows. My mother had a huge influence on me as a musician – both as a... read more

My Favorite Aunt – A Music Video for Mother’s Day Eve

May 7, 2019 | Mom | 11 comments

Join electric harpist & vocalist Deborah Henson-Conant from her studio for a LIVE STUDIO CONCERT on Aunty’s Eve, Saturday May 11, 2019 at 8PM EDT. Sign up HERE to get reminders, concert freebies and a replay link. [First posted May 10, 2014 at 10:53] My... read more

Wanna go One-On-One with me?

Apr 30, 2019 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Hip Harp Academy, Uncategorized | 0 comments

Okay. Before I tell you about last Sunday’s “Harp Improv 101” Webinar and how to get the replay, let me tell you why I needed to get you this info today … I offered something really big at that webinar and it only lasts 48-Hours … I’ve never offered anything like this... read more

[FREE WEBINAR] Improv 101: Where Folk, Blues & Jazz Meet

Apr 24, 2019 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Webinar Sign-Up Pages

Get the REPLAY of this Creativity Training Webinar now! Register for the FREE REPLAY Recorded Sun. Apr. 28 at 4:30 pm EST Register for the FREE REPLAY! REGISTERING FOR THIS training also includes membership in my mailing list. If you want to unsubscribe later,... read more

Harpist Margi Miller plucks a new connection with Alzheimers Patients

Apr 18, 2019 | Harping & Harpists, Hip Harp Academy, Online Courses | 1 comment

What would YOU do if you could connect more with people thru music? Harpist Margi Miller recently took my new “Sing & Play Harp: 3-Chord Magic” Class and sent us this video and the story behind it, showing how this one class opened up joyful, deep new level of... read more

People Have to Sing

Apr 15, 2019 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Hip Harp Academy, Online Courses | 0 comments

“People have to sing.” That’s what my grandmother Edith said. “They have to eat their vegetables. They have to know they’re useful. And they have to sing. And someone’s got to keep them together. That’s me. That’s why I... read more

Suspend Your Addiction to Learning

Apr 9, 2019 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Hip Harp Academy, Online Courses | 0 comments

I opened my email inbox over the weekend and found this email from Susan Carol, a harpist who’d joined my new  “3-Chord Magic” class – the first class in the “Sing & Play the Harp” Immersion Series at Hip Harp Academy. Susan and... read more

You Have a Voice

Apr 9, 2019 | Performance, Songwriting, Video | 0 comments

World Voice Day is April 16th. I originally wrote this show for the one-woman musical “What the Hell are you Doing in the Waiting Room for Heaven??” but now I sing it in concert and with harp ensembles as a spontaneous choral piece. In the musical, a little girl has... read more

So Proud of the Half-Bakes

Apr 2, 2019 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Online Courses | 0 comments

I was just texting to some colleagues in NYC and found myself writing: OMG – I’m so proud of the people in my Academy!!! They’re so brave and funny and committed, and willing and creative.  And I just realized I should be sharing this is social media!!! I just... read more

It’s SPRING! So SING… with your Harp!

Mar 21, 2019 | harp, Hip Harp Academy, New Releases | 0 comments

It’s Spring!!!! And I want to tell you what people are doing with my BRAND NEW “Sing & Play Harp” class called “3-Chord Magic”:- because it’s all about bringing new growth, a new sense of life, a lifting of the spirit that... read more

Danny Boy made me Waaaaay Insecure

Mar 19, 2019 | harp, New Releases, Projects, Re-DHC | 0 comments

It started last Wednesday, just a few days before St. Patrick’s Day.  I was co-working with my buddy, Mia (another creative entrepreneur) and I’d just gotten a copy of “Danny Boy” I’d arranged last year for an artist I mentor.  I  thought “I should share this... read more

I’m so happy to see you!

Mar 9, 2019 | Random Thoughts | 0 comments

I was scrolling through LinkedIn, trying to be social when it hit me: I was seeing poses. Like animals, frozen in a pecking order, flaring out feathers, puffing out chests.  And LinkedIn isn’t nearly as intense with that as other social media. And here’s me... read more

What’s the most powerful thing you learned as a child? Could you teach it?

Mar 8, 2019 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning | 2 comments

What’s the one thing that opened the doorway to your life’s passion? Could you teach it to someone else? Sing & Play Harp - Learn More!   You might have learned it in a few seconds, or a minute or ten minutes. The memory may be hazy. It may seem so... read more

sing and play – 3 chords is all it takes

Mar 2, 2019 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning | 0 comments

It’s funny that in the past 5 years, as I’ve been creating an online Academy for harp players – specifically to teach arrangement and improv and creative expression – that I’ve never taught the art of singing and playing… Until now.... read more

The Nightingale – Performances around the World

Feb 26, 2019 | Composing, Harping & Harpists, Harps, Mom, Performance | 7 comments

“The Nightingale” is one of my most-requested songs – one of those songs that comes out whole, that just seems like a simple statement of truth. I wrote it in memory of my mother’s voice – and since I published it years ago, harpists all over the... read more

the love comes back

Feb 22, 2019 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Hip Harp Academy, Instrument (My Instrument), Video | 0 comments

The love comes back  … that’s what I found out this week. Last week for Valentine’s Day I decided – last-minute – to broadcast a Salon Concert from my studio land LiveStream on Facebook. Love songs — jazz standards, originals. I planned... read more

Beautiful Partnership Between Musician & Instrument

Feb 21, 2019 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Hip Harp Academy, Instrument (My Instrument), Video | 0 comments

I was just talking to a friend of mine the other day who just started playing the flute. He’d been playing the harmonica and he started playing the Indian flute. He’s a yoga teacher and he wanted to play it at the end of Yoga sessions. He said to me, “So I just... read more