May 14, 2019 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Hip Harp Academy, Mom |
This year I continued a long-held tradition of performing a concert in honor of my mother – and this time I did it direct from my studio on Facebook LIVE. My fans and friends got to enjoy the show in their living rooms, kitchens, decks – wherever they...
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 26, 2019 | Composing, Harping & Harpists, Harps, Mom, Performance |
“The Nightingale” is one of my most-requested songs – one of those songs that comes out whole, that just seems like a simple statement of truth. I wrote it in memory of my mother’s voice – and since I published it years ago, harpists all over the...
May 11, 2018 | Mom, Recordings |
This is an archive post ~ originally published Apr. 2, 2012 and updated in 2018 In my late teens, I was visiting Edith, my grandmother, in the San Joaquin valley where I stayed with her for part of every summer. She gave me her pincushion and a few spools of thread...
Feb 12, 2018 | Love Stories (Wired for Love), Mom |
NOTE: This story includes an audio file related to the story – if you want to listen while you’re reading, here’s the song: My parents were divorced when I was very young and my mother and I went to live with my Aunt. Aftrer a year or so the three of...
![[Harp-Lever-Pedal-Voice] The Nightingale](https://www.hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Nightingale-Cover-Gumroad-v6.jpg)
Jul 5, 2017 | Mom, Sheet Music (Sheet Music Store) |
The Nightingale (for harp solo or harp & voice / lever or pedal harps). This is Deborah’s top-selling sheet music. It includes five versions of “The Nightingale,” from Beginner to Advanced, for harps in Eb or C, some versions for harp instrumental and some for...
Feb 19, 2016 | Audio Clips (for media room only), Mom |
This is a song for harp, voice and symphony – a memory of my mother’s voice – from my album “Invention & Alchemy”
Aug 21, 2015 | Mom, Random Thoughts |
It was in Calaveras County, in the foothills of the Sierras in the ’60’s. I was 6. We went to a forestry preserve – maybe a fishery, and likely in Big Trees State park. We walked into a small flat meadow, where a forest ranger in short sleeves knelt...
Aug 14, 2015 | Mom, Random Thoughts |
Yesterday, on the bike path, pedaling home from a stint at the Kickstand Cafe with my computer, there was a small group ahead of me on the path in sunlight that looked almost dusty: A mother – or grandmother – and a child. Like it would have been when I...
