Suspend Your Addiction to Learning
I opened my email inbox over the weekend and found this email from Susan Carol, a harpist who’d joined my new “3-Chord Magic” class – the first class in the “Sing & Play the Harp” Immersion Series at Hip Harp Academy. Susan and... read moreSo Proud of the Half-Bakes
I was just texting to some colleagues in NYC and found myself writing: OMG – I’m so proud of the people in my Academy!!! They’re so brave and funny and committed, and willing and creative. And I just realized I should be sharing this is social media!!! I just... read more
What’s the most powerful thing you learned as a child? Could you teach it?
What’s the one thing that opened the doorway to your life’s passion? Could you teach it to someone else? Sing & Play Harp - Learn More! You might have learned it in a few seconds, or a minute or ten minutes. The memory may be hazy. It may seem so... read more
sing and play – 3 chords is all it takes
It’s funny that in the past 5 years, as I’ve been creating an online Academy for harp players – specifically to teach arrangement and improv and creative expression – that I’ve never taught the art of singing and playing… Until now.... read more
the love comes back
The love comes back … that’s what I found out this week. Last week for Valentine’s Day I decided – last-minute – to broadcast a Salon Concert from my studio land LiveStream on Facebook. Love songs — jazz standards, originals. I planned... read more
Beautiful Partnership Between Musician & Instrument
I was just talking to a friend of mine the other day who just started playing the flute. He’d been playing the harmonica and he started playing the Indian flute. He’s a yoga teacher and he wanted to play it at the end of Yoga sessions. He said to me, “So I just... read more
Wanna Sing & Play the Harp?
Do you wanna Sing & Play Harp? I’m creating an “Sing & Play Harp” Online Course … and I want YOUR input! My name is Deborah Henson-Conant. I’ve been singing & playing all my life: first with ukulele, guitar and piano – and then with harp. I’ve... read more
we fear … yet we could love
The thing I hear most from people about what holds them back is “fear.” We know what we long to do and we fear doing it. And that fear becomes a habit. A habit that’s lodged in our bodies and in our minds. A loop of thought and feeling that becomes so solid we... read more
Feedback is IN. Are YOU? (Strings of Passion)
This is an archive post ~ originally published Jan. 13, 2017 and updated in 2019 My 10-Week creativity program “Strings of Passion” is the first course of 2019 at Hip Harp Academy. I compiled this student feedback a couple years ago, after week three, from posts in ... read more
