Apr 2, 2020 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Harping & Harpists, Hip Harp Academy |
3 months ago, a harpist named Roselyn contacted me about lessons. Here in the U.S. from South Korea, she’s been studying classical harp at Eastman School of Music, but wants to forge her own path, and she wants to do it with the “DHC Harp.” If you don’t know what the...
Mar 19, 2020 | Instrument (My Instrument), Performance, Uncategorized, Video |
I made this video based on a game I used to play with my family where we’d challenge each other to make music with random objects. It can be ANYTHING really … even a bag of gum … The fact is … I play pretty much EVERYTHING in my house when I’m not...
Feb 25, 2020 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Harping & Harpists, Interviews |
This is Conversation #9 of the “Jung at Harp” series with Jungian Analyst Kathleen Wiley and me, Deborah Henson-Conant. In this video we are exploring AUTHENTICITY & WHOLENESS. This series explores Jungian analysis through the lens of the principles in...
Feb 6, 2020 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Hip Harp Academy |
Behind anything really worth doing, there is a purpose – a “big why” – the thing that keeps you moving forward through any obstacles that life puts in your path. Dedicating yourself to a practice TAKES SOMETHING. Being vulnerable and expressive TAKES...
Feb 6, 2020 | Audience Feedback, Concerts, Events, Performance |
OK, OK, there were 2 seats unsold… Were you there? If not those two were for YOU! I love performing at TCAN (The Center for Arts in Natick, MA), the theater that used to be a firehouse, and transporting the space, audience AND myself, to the land of stories...
Feb 4, 2020 | Events, Hip Harp Academy, Performing |
So here’s what happened … Aside from playing to a completely full house on a Saturday night, and waking up to beautiful texts, emails and posts on Facebook about the show Sunday morning, I also got some wonderful photographs via text from a photographer...
Jan 8, 2020 | Collaboration, Composer, Musical Theater, Performing |
We Come Alive through Others I’ve been working on my fantasy musical, “The Golden Cage,” for what seems like forever – and this week we finally started the Workshop Phase! The 2-Character musical is about a Bird-Man who’s been searching...
Dec 17, 2019 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Final Beginning HHT Student Projects, Final Beginning Student Projects (All), Hip Harp Academy |
Welcome to the Final-Beginning Projects from the 2019 “Hip Harp Toolkit” class at Hip Harp Academy. These are all Music Projects by students who just finished the 10-week class in arrangement and improv– harpists committed to liberating themselves from the...
Dec 6, 2019 | Events, Performing |
Deborah Henson-Conant Sat. Feb. 1, 2020 ~ 8pm The Center for Arts in Natick, MA (TCAN) A stunning, intimate SOLO SHOW with Electric Harp, Voice, Stories & Humor ~ with special guest, cabaret artist, Ute Gfrerer “Dazzling harp playing, gorgeous jazz/pop singing,...
Nov 11, 2019 | Birthdays, Holidays |
I decided each person should be in charge of their own birthday – including sending out card, planning parties, giving presents. This way they would never forget, people couldn’t guilt-trip each other (as in “Hey, you forgot your birthday! You...
