Rockport Music Presents HipHarp at Shalin Liu
=============== PRESS RELEASE – Run Through April 21, 2012 =============== Imagine a harp shrunk to the size of a crossbow. Brushed chrome, with 32 strings. A woman in a sleek black boustier straps it on, plugs it in like an electric guitar and pulls sounds from...
Beginning in the Middle
I started playing harp as an adult. Well … full disclosure? I had 6 or 7 lessons when I was 13, then took a 9-year hiatus and started seriously when I was 22. And, this morning, I learned that Mason Williams, the man who wrote and recorded one of the most famous...
Atlanta Harp Center: Double Workshop – Sun. Dec. 4, 2011
A Double-Workshop at the Atlanta Harp Center “Jumpstart the Blues” & “Passion in Performance” Deborah Henson-Conant is a GRAMMY®-Nominated recording artist, and the world’s foremost electric harpist, known for her Blues, Flamenco and...
DHC’s Gettin’ Down in Denver!
Press Release – run until 10/1/2011 Take a Harp ?Shrink it down? Plug it in? Strap it on Deborah Henson-Conant is the world’s foremost electric harpist – but this ain’t your grandmother’s harp! She’s a GRAMMY©-Nominated recording...
Weekly Volcano previews Electric Harp
Electric Harpist Deborah Henson-Conant with the Tacoma Symphony Orchestra Sun. March 27, 2011 http://www.weeklyvolcano.com/entertainment/guides/2010/09/electric-harpist-Deborah-Henson-Conant-Tacoma/ >>> MARCH 27 by WEEKLY VOLCANO editor Matt Driscoll: When I...
Kansas Here I Come!
In two days I’ll be wearing my snowsuit and my ruby slippers. (By the way, last night I could have sworn I heard a local WBUR newscaster say, “Brace yourselves for a GIANT OYSTER headed in this direction!” I was pretty excited. Then I realized she...
‘Hip-Harp’ Heads to Kansas!
Sat. Jan. 15, 2010 I’ll perform at the newly renovated “McPherson Opera House” a little gem of a theater in McPherson Kansas. You can read the full article below at the Salina Journal, where you can email to friends and post comments (Yes! Please...Deborah Henson-Conant performs new harp piece at Arlington’s Regent Theatre – – The Arlington Advocate
Nice interview (see link below). You can see a little bit of rehearsal video, learn more about the show and buy tickets at this page on my website: https://hipharp.com/events/regent-shrunkharp2010.html Deborah Henson-Conant performs new harp piece at...
From Musical Theater to Guerrilla Theater: Lab Coats Dress for Success
My neighbor, Betsy, recently sent out a neighborhood bulletin asking for “occupational clothing.” Betsy’s teaching a course called “Social Change in Action” at Boston College and the clothing was part of the students’ field work. I just happened to have 20...
