Jan 22, 2022 | Hip Harp Academy |
What’s is like to dare to learn a whole new way to play music? To let go of the notes on the page and arrange and improvise, right in the moment – regardless of your technical level – regardless of how long you’ve been playing an instrument...
Jan 22, 2022 | Hip Harp Academy |
What if you decided to explore a new way of playing music, where you learned the basic building blocks of music itself, and then you ‘built’ a new piece every time you played? That’s what members of “Hip Harp Academy” learn to do –...
Dec 24, 2021 | Hip Harp Academy |
Once upon a time, during one of the severe pandemics in the 21st century, when all people were forced to stay at home and could not meet and play music together … … an international community of DARING harp players met each week in a Virtual Academy to...
Sep 25, 2021 | Hip Harp Academy |
Once upon a time, during one of the severe pandemics in the 21st century, when all people were forced to stay at home and could not meet and play music together … … an international community of DARING harp players met each week in a Virtual Academy to...
Sep 24, 2021 | Hip Harp Academy |
Not all harpists live a life of luxury, waltzing around in long flowing gowns. This harpist spends her day mucking out the manure … but on this day, she brought her harp with her. So … do animals get the Blues? Well … yes, if they’re lucky...
Sep 22, 2021 | Hip Harp Academy |
Early this year, Charlene Elderkin came to a Hip Harp Academy chat and said she had committed to putting on an outdoor concert in Viroqua, Wisconsin, using everything she’d learned in Hip Harp Academy. Not just a solo concert, but a concert with friends –...
Nov 1, 2020 | Concerts, Events |
Sat. Nov. 14 ~ LIVE from the Regent Theatre Deborah Henson-Conant in Concert SHOWTIMES: 10:30 AM ET “Kids Show with the Harp Lady” Livestream Tix 7:30 pm ET – LIVE in Concert – Limited In-Theater Seating / Livestream Tix What’s it like to...
Oct 22, 2020 | Events, Press Release, Uncategorized |
===============Deborah Henson-Conant LIVE at the Regent, LIVESTREAMED WorldwideFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Run through Nov. 14, 2020MEDIA Contact: Joy Monteverdi / info (at) hipharp.com=============== She strides on stage like a rock-star, strapped into an electric harp,...
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...
Apr 12, 2018 | Blues, Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning |
This is an archive post ~ originally published Jan. 13, 2016 and updated in 2018 A few years back at a show in the Boston area, I launched into an impromptu story of my life and how I started playing the harp – all while playing the harp. Afterwards, the theater owner...