All that Jazz Harp
This is an archive post ~ originally published Nov. 29, 2010 and updated in 2018 The international Jazz-Harp organization in Holland sent me a questionnaire as part of research to find out if harpists and jazz musicians support the idea of a formal Bachelor program... read more
Jazz Standards: If Only I had the KEY!
This is an archive post ~ originally published Feb. 25, 2015 and updated in 2018 When I got my first gig playing lush hotel lobby music with the strolling violins of “Danny Yale and the Regency Strings” I did not personally have to stroll. Nope, my job was to play... read more
Blues As Creative Structure
This is an archive post ~ originally published Jun. 18, 2013 and updated in 2018 I recently had a mastermind session with music therapist, coach & harpist Trista Hill about my online program Blues Harp-Style, a 6-Week program on the Blues specifically for harp... read more
Free Jazzy Harp Stuff
[Some of the info in this post I’ve shared before so don’t be surprised if it looks familiar!] Harpists have asked me to teach jazz harp for years. But every time I took students, I realized they were missing some fundamentals about music. That’s why... read more
Deborah Henson-Conant at the Cape Cod Jazz Festival 2016
=============== PRESS RELEASE – Run Through July 12, 2016 =============== Cape Cod Jazz Festival presents: Deborah Henson-Conant: “A Night under the Stars” (electric harp, voice & story) Tuesday, July 12, 2016 at 8:30pm Wequassett Resort on... read more
NEW! Jazz Harp Masterclass Intensive
This weekend, my studio will resound with multi-harp Jazz, as 3 advanced harp players arrive for my first jazz-harp masterclass intensive – direct from my studio. Two of the students, Shelley Fairplay and Nicole Mueller, both from Europe, are in my year-long... read more
What Jazz IS to me…
Harpists have been asking me to teach jazz harp for years. But every time I took students, I realized they were missing some fundamentals about music. [FREE Jazzy Stuff & other useful Links at the bottom of the page!] For me, jazz is built on those fundamentals,... read more
A Noodling Breakthrough for Harp Players!
NEWSFLASH from CYBERSPACE: An amazing noodling breakthrough occurred during Deborah Henson-Conant’s recent Virtual “Hands on Harmony” Beta Retreat! After giving the standard “Just start noodling,” direction during a play-along session the Grammy-Nominated harp... read more
The Show Countdown – 3 Days!
Today my assistant Beatriz and I had a discussion about whether it’s 4 days before or 3 days before my because I like to think there’s more time. She said get over it. It’s 3. She won. Today, Henry, the videographer came by today to get my cameras.... read more
