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...
Oct 14, 2019 | Baroque Flamenco, Baroque Flamenco Performances By Others, Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Composing, MY Baroque Flamenco - Player's Series |
“Baroque Flamenco” is one of my most-performed pieces and I LOVE hearing all the different ways people play it. I also love hearing about each person’s journey with piece, what they’ve learned from it and how they make it their own. At least...
Sep 29, 2019 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Harping & Harpists, Hip Harp Academy, [Class-HHT] Hip Harp Toolkit, [HHT] Hip Harp Toolkit Class |
So there I am – I’m at my first big harp gig in a fancy hotel. I’m subbing for the regular harpist. I’m in my early 20’s – I’ve only been playing about a year and a half. I literally only know four pieces – and the gig is 4 hours long. So I play...
![Finding Creative Freedom – One Pluck at a Time [Harpists speak out in words and music]](https://www.hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/sally-walstrum-concert-blue-dhc-harp-library.jpg)
Sep 26, 2019 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Harping & Harpists, Hip Harp Academy |
Harpist Sally Walstrum and Margi Miller both started taking classes at Hip Harp Academy, my year-long training program for harpists – more than 3 years ago. They each came to the harp in very different ways with very different skills. Sally started the harp as a...
Sep 26, 2019 | Events, Hip Harp Academy, Online Courses, Webinar Sign-Up Pages
Register Now for the Instant REPLAY of this Live Webinar Training Yes! I want the Replay! ALERT: This video is highly pixilated, so we’ll be doing an encore of this training – but you’re welcome to watch it now in its fuzzy state. Are YOU an impassioned harp player?...
Sep 24, 2019 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Creativity, Harps, Holidays, Music |
We don’t even know that we’ve put them on… Creative handcuffs close slowly. Unnoticeable until they’re tight on our hands. They’re invisible. They’re inside us. What does it take to unlock them? For me … it takes PLAY. But what does that mean? Well,...
Sep 22, 2019 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Harping & Harpists, Harps, [HHT] Hip Harp Toolkit Class |
What if … What if you took a class where you discovered you could just sit down and improvise your own arrangements? Boom! Just like that! What if it was like one of those dreams where you realize you can suddenly do something you always longed to do – and the...
Sep 18, 2019 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Final Beginning Student Projects (All), harp, Harping & Harpists, Harps, Hip Harp Academy |
I’m so happy to share some of the Final-Beginning Projects from this year’s “Summer Program” at Hip Harp Academy. These are all Music Projects by members of Hip Harp Academy – harpists committed to liberating themselves from the notes on the page and creating...
Sep 18, 2019 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Hip Harp Academy, Online Courses |
Hi – I’m Deborah Henson-Conant composer, performer, electric harp player – and creator and founder of Hip Harp Academy – where I teach harp players around the world the art of improvisation and self-expression. There are many individual classes harp...
Sep 15, 2019 | Uncategorized |
I’m doing a Mini-Marathon Facebook Live as a challenge to harpist Shelley Fairplay, creator of the “Start Harp” Method of online harp learning. Why just a Mini-Marathon? Well, I’m ALSO doing a FREE WEBINAR today to share my “Blueprint for Improv”...
![Blueprint for Improv- [Sep. 15 ENCORE!] FREE Training for Harp Players](https://www.hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/blueprint-for-improv-square-smlr-900x675.jpg)
Sep 12, 2019 | Events, Hip Harp Academy, Online Courses, Webinar Sign-Up Pages
Register Now for the INSTANT REPLAY Yes! I want the INSTANT Replay of the Sep. 15 Webinar!! This replay is from the LIVE Encore of “Blueprint for Improv” recorded on Sun. Sep. 15, 2019 at 4:30 pm EDT. Registration includes a subscription to my weekly-ish...
![Jung at Harp [2] The Conversation Continues](https://www.hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Screen-Shot-2019-09-10-at-2.26.07-PM.jpg)
Sep 10, 2019 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Creativity, Harping & Harpists, Hip Harp Academy, Interviews, Video |
Deborah Henson-Conant & Hip Harp Academy Present: An “In-Between the Music” Conversation “Jung at Harp [2] – the Conversation Conitnues” A conversation about music and … the principles of Jungian Analysis “In Between the Music” is a series of...
Sep 7, 2019 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Hip Harp Academy, Online Courses |
“Hip Harp Toolkit” is my Fall online course for harp players that teaches the incredibly fun game of creating improvising arrangements! It’s the foundation of all my other courses! Hip Harp Toolkit is one of my most popular classes. It’s a 10-week...
Sep 5, 2019 | Concerts, Tour Diaries |
I had an eventful time up in Belfast, Maine for my show at the Crosby Center last month. The history of the center itself is fascinating – it was once a High School (it even appeared in the 1957 movie “Peyton Place” as the local High School). In 1996 it was...
Sep 5, 2019 | Events, Hip Harp Academy, Online Courses
Register Now for the INSTANT REPLAYof the Sept. 8, 2019 Webinar Yes! I want the INSTANT Replay! Did you know we’re ALSO doing a LIVE ENCORE of this Webinar on Sun. Sep. 15th? Sign up FREE for the Encore Webinar(and, yes, you’re welcome to sign up for both)...
Sep 3, 2019 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Online Courses |
People ask me …. How does “Hip Harp Toolkit” work? Is it Skype lessons? A class? What IS it??? They’re talking about the 10-week online course I created just for harp players – that shows how to create your own impromptu arrangements at your OWN level of...
Sep 1, 2019 | Composer, Composing |
Sylvia Woods asked me to write an article about my life and my composing for harp to accompany a sale she’s having on my sheet music downloads in her store. This is the original version of the article along with all the photos I offered her. Enjoy! When I was seven I...
Aug 22, 2019 | Events, Weekly Ezine |
Why do we crave art? What does it give us? I always think about this when preparing for a show – like my show this Saturday at the Crosby Center in Belfast, Maine [read about the show – buy tix here – see my personal map of Maine so you can tell...
Aug 14, 2019 | Events, Weekly Ezine |
My next show is Sat. Aug. 24th at the Crosby Center in Belfast, ME – a beautiful little town on the coast about 3 1/2 hours north of Boston. If you live in New England – come! If not, stop a second and ask yourself: who do you know who does? And then...
Aug 13, 2019 | Concerts, Events |
BUY TIX NOW! Grammy-nominated electric harp legend Deborah Henson-Conant (“DHC”) brings her riveting performance style the Crosby Center in Belfast, ME on Saturday, August 24th at 7:30pm. Her shows combine music, humor, and stories with a range of musical styles that...
Jul 31, 2019 | Harping & Harpists, Harps |
I was blown away when I saw this video in my Facebook Feed from a brand new student to “Summer Harp Jam” I knew the program was powerful, but this post proved just how much freedom from the notes on the page that one program could give someone in a single...
