Jan 28, 2020 | Celebration Barn, Events, I Remember..., Performance, Video |
I was afraid he wouldn’t accept me. So I put it off – calling him. Stuttering through call, afraid he’d say: “What are your credentials?” or “You have to pass a test” or “I only work with highly experienced people”...
Jun 28, 2019 | Celebration Barn, Events, I Remember..., Performance |
After a few years away from “The Barn” – The Celebration Barn in South Paris, ME – I’m going back to perform on July 27th for one night! This intimate New England appearance is a chance to see me and the instrument I conceived, up-close...
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...
Feb 14, 2019 | Harping & Harpists, I Remember..., Love Stories (Wired for Love), Romance |
One of the songs I heard my mother sing when I was a kid was “Nature Boy” by Eden Ahbez. It was one of the pieces I cut my teeth on when I was learning to ‘fake’ music from chord charts. It has a haunting melody with simple, beautiful chords. There’s one thing I just...
Jun 14, 2018 | Holidays, I Remember... |
I love to share this photo every father’s day. It’s one of the only pictures I have of me and my Dad, and it’s on the day of his second wedding. Decades later, I would help my father sing at his own funeral. Let me give that some context: About 30...
Dec 22, 2017 | I Remember..., Random Thoughts |
This is an archive post ~ originally published Dec. 23, 2011 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...
Sep 3, 2015 | I Remember..., Music |
When I grew up, music was a huge part of my life but I never listened to records or went to concerts. It was all live. It all happened in my home – or my relatives’ homes – most of it spontaneous — and it ran the gamut from us playing ukes and...
Aug 8, 2013 | I Remember..., Kindness |
We went down the driveway to the main road to throw rocks at cars. I remember it as the day of my Grandfather’s funeral. My good buddy Stephen Holmes was visiting. We were about 4 or 5, I guess, and we’d been told to get out of the house. So we went to...
Aug 2, 2013 | Creativity, Hard Knocks, I Remember... |
She was my 5th or 6th grade project for history and social studies. I waited ‘til the night before the project was due. Not avoiding it – just obsessing over it. We were studying ancient Greece and Rome. Finally I took my mother’s Venus, the eight-inch statue...
Mar 29, 2012 | I Remember..., Random Thoughts |
Somewhere recently I heard that, depending on when you grew up, and who was president, you’ll have a different outlook on life. In the U.S. for example, they said, if you came of a certain age (which I forgot) during the Kennedy administration, you’ll be...
