Mar 14, 2015 | Blues, Harping & Harpists, Weekly Ezine |
This week I SANG my weekly ezine. Yup … I sang my News to the Blues And if you but I do swear sometimes in emails with close friends: Inspiration Whacks Me in an Email On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 4:49 PM, Deborah Henson-Conant / HipHarp.com ?wrote to Michael Katz:...
Jan 14, 2015 | Blues, Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Online Courses |
When I first tried to learn the Blues I asked my boyfriend at the time, a jazz bass player, how it was put together, how it ‘worked.’ He was a great player, but intolerant of my learning style and his answer was growled disdain, “There’s no shortcuts to the Blues. You...
Dec 31, 2014 | Blues, Events, Press Release |
Press Release – Run Thru Sat. Jan. 10, 2015 Tix: http://bit.ly/TCAN-2015-DHC Every year Deborah Henson-Conant (DHC) performs her Annual “Lose Your Blues” concert at TCAN (The Center for Arts in Natick) in the Boston area – a full night of Blues on harp and...
Dec 23, 2014 | Blues, Performance |
OK, OK – maybe you didn’t find the perfect gift YET but sometimes the last-minute is the best-minute – so I put together some gifts that are so fast, they don’t even need wrapping! And to make it FUN, I created a bunch of downloadable gift-cards (or gift-scrolls, if...
Dec 17, 2014 | Blues, Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Events, Harping & Harpists, Online Courses, Performance |
Every year I perform my Annual “Lose Your Blues” concert at TCAN (The Center for Arts in Natick) – this year it’s on Sat. Jan. 10th. The impetus is to take the worst weekend in the year – the weekend right after New Years and see just how much fun I can have with it....
Dec 17, 2014 | Blues, Events, Performance, Press Release |
The lead-up to the Holidays is intense –then it all deflates in the cold days of January when the Blues hit you hard. That’s why I always brings my Annual Lose Your Blues show to the Boston Area just after New Year’s. =============== Lose your Blues – with a...
Jan 17, 2014 | Audience Feedback, Blues, Harping & Harpists, People I Meet, Performance |
Last Saturday, at my annual “Lose Your Blues” show, I came back on stage early after intermission – as I often do (because there’s nothing to do backstage and I came there to be with the audience, so why would I hang out in the basement)? Anyway, I often use it as a Q...
Jul 23, 2013 | Blues, Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Creativity, Jazz Harp |
What’s that buzz about mastery? That it takes 10,000 hours to master anything? OK. Sure. I believe it. And the point of being a ‘master’ is …? I’m not dissing mastery. I’m just saying that – especially for adult learners – is it really about mastery? Or is it about...
