Feb 1, 2025 | Holidays, Love Stories (Wired for Love), Romance |
You must send Valentines. I’ll tell you why below, but first I have to admit I always disliked Valentines Day. And then in 2020 – 5 years into a single life I hadn’t planned on – I gave it up. Instead of hating Valentines Day, I challenged myself to send Video...
Dec 18, 2024 | Christmas-Hanuka-Kwanzaa |
The Holidays are upon us! I wish I could be with you around the table, or the fire, or the candles or the tree. But since I can’t, below are ways we CAN be together: my holiday collection of blogposts and some special offers for Harp players… Each year I...
Dec 18, 2024 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Creativity, Holidays |
In 2020, I admitted something to my students in Hip Harp Academy that I’ve never really liked the tune Silent Night. But I also told them that you could learn to love a song by really exploring it, and I started bragging that if I wanted to, I could make a...
Dec 18, 2024 | Holidays, Recordings
There are certain songs that bloom only in December, like my 15-year old Christmas Cactus plant does. You could play them in spring or summer, but you’d likely sound as out-of-season as a wool hat in a Florida July – except for “What Child is This?” which lives a...
Dec 18, 2024 | Christmas-Hanuka-Kwanzaa, I Remember..., Random Thoughts |
When I was 12 and living in North Carolina, I wanted to send my grandparents a Hannukah card. I’d never celebrated the holiday, since only half my family was Jewish and that half – my mother – was a big Christmas decoration fan. But I’d decided...
Dec 18, 2024 | Christmas-Hanuka-Kwanzaa, Composing |
I was talking with one of the artists I coach a few years ago, when she asked me if I’d ever considered playing a holiday program and I said sure, that I’d written two holiday suites I really love – for harp and string orchestra, called “Season...
Dec 18, 2024 | Christmas-Hanuka-Kwanzaa, Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, harp, Harping & Harpists |
Many years ago – before I had created my online “Hip Harp Academy” and my “Harness Your Muse” mentorship, the only way for people to study with me was to come live in my studio. It was a transformational mentorship experience with harpists from all around the world,...
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Dec 18, 2024 | Christmas-Hanuka-Kwanzaa, Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Final Beginning Student Projects (All), harp, Harping & Harpists, Harps, Hip Harp Academy, [Class-HHT] Hip Harp Toolkit |
Happy Holidays! I’m so happy to share some of the Final-Beginning Projects from 2018’s “Hip Harp Toolkit” program at Hip Harp Academy. These are all Holiday Greeting videos by members of Hip Harp Academy – harpists committed to liberating...
Dec 18, 2024 | Christmas-Hanuka-Kwanzaa, Holidays, Music |
Below is the story of how I wrote the round “Season of Celebration” for very special concert with string orchestra, harp and AUDIENCE. But first, you can hear me sing this song in the first snow of winter — and in 4-part harmony with myself –...
Jun 16, 2024 | Holidays, Uncategorized |
My mother married Burt Henson when I was … well, when I wasn’t yet. Soon, however, I was. But they weren’t for very long. When I was seven she married Larry Conant and we started moving around the country. I was called Debby Conant then – at...
