Nov 24, 2020 | harp, Holidays, Jazz Harp, New Releases |
Sometimes a gift is about sharing what you think of as your ‘true self’. Sometimes a gift is about sharing a part of yourself that may feel awkward, or different than you think you are – and yet it speaks to the heart of someone you love in a way...
Jul 12, 2018 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Events, Jazz Harp |
What if you could spend 10 days in the forests of Brazil with some of the worlds greatest jazz harp teachers … … while they shared all their secrets about playing jazz on the harp with you? Well, you can do exactly that! Just catch a flight to Rio next...
May 17, 2018 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Jazz Harp, Performance |
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...
May 15, 2018 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Jazz Harp |
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...
Apr 13, 2018 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Creativity, Harping & Harpists, Jazz Harp |
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...
Aug 24, 2017 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Jazz Harp |
[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...
May 31, 2016 | Events, Jazz Harp, Press Release |
=============== 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...
Mar 4, 2016 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Harping & Harpists, Jazz Harp |
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...
Mar 2, 2016 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Jazz Harp |
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,...
Jan 29, 2016 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Harping & Harpists, Jazz Harp |
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...
