How I met my mother
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... read more
Facebook LIVE Concert in Honor of my Mother – REPLAY available NOW!
Please Join me for a Full Replay of my 2019 Mother’s Day concert streamed via Facebook Live from from my studio just outside Boston I have long had a tradition of playing Mother’s Day shows. My mother had a huge influence on me as a musician – both as a... read more
My Favorite Aunt – A Music Video for Mother’s Day Eve
Join electric harpist & vocalist Deborah Henson-Conant from her studio for a LIVE STUDIO CONCERT on Aunty’s Eve, Saturday May 11, 2019 at 8PM EDT. Sign up HERE to get reminders, concert freebies and a replay link. [First posted May 10, 2014 at 10:53] My... read more
Wanna go One-On-One with me?
Okay. Before I tell you about last Sunday’s “Harp Improv 101” Webinar and how to get the replay, let me tell you why I needed to get you this info today … I offered something really big at that webinar and it only lasts 48-Hours … I’ve never offered anything like this... read more![[FREE WEBINAR] Improv 101: Where Folk, Blues & Jazz Meet](https://www.hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/HarpImprov101-FBBoost-header-466276_250x0.jpg)
[FREE WEBINAR] Improv 101: Where Folk, Blues & Jazz Meet
Get the REPLAY of this Creativity Training Webinar now! Register for the FREE REPLAY Recorded Sun. Apr. 28 at 4:30 pm EST Register for the FREE REPLAY! REGISTERING FOR THIS training also includes membership in my mailing list. If you want to unsubscribe later,... read more
Harpist Margi Miller plucks a new connection with Alzheimers Patients
What would YOU do if you could connect more with people thru music? Harpist Margi Miller recently took my new “Sing & Play Harp: 3-Chord Magic” Class and sent us this video and the story behind it, showing how this one class opened up joyful, deep new level of... read more
People Have to Sing
“People have to sing.” That’s what my grandmother Edith said. “They have to eat their vegetables. They have to know they’re useful. And they have to sing. And someone’s got to keep them together. That’s me. That’s why I... read more
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 more
You Have a Voice
World Voice Day is April 16th. I originally wrote this show for the one-woman musical “What the Hell are you Doing in the Waiting Room for Heaven??” but now I sing it in concert and with harp ensembles as a spontaneous choral piece. In the musical, a little girl has... 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
It’s SPRING! So SING… with your Harp!
It’s Spring!!!! And I want to tell you what people are doing with my BRAND NEW “Sing & Play Harp” class called “3-Chord Magic”:- because it’s all about bringing new growth, a new sense of life, a lifting of the spirit that... read more
Danny Boy made me Waaaaay Insecure
It started last Wednesday, just a few days before St. Patrick’s Day. I was co-working with my buddy, Mia (another creative entrepreneur) and I’d just gotten a copy of “Danny Boy” I’d arranged last year for an artist I mentor. I thought “I should share this... read more
I’m so happy to see you!
I was scrolling through LinkedIn, trying to be social when it hit me: I was seeing poses. Like animals, frozen in a pecking order, flaring out feathers, puffing out chests. And LinkedIn isn’t nearly as intense with that as other social media. And here’s me... 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 Nightingale – Performances around the World
“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... 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
My Funny Valentine – Facebook Live Salon Concert
Last week for Valentine’s Day I decided to do a LIVE salon concert, on Facebook, from my living room. During the concert, I sang a special Valentine’s Day song for my Aunt Elaine. It’s a cover of the classic standard by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz... read more
