


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...
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 this...
Strings of Passion Takeaways from Martha
This is an archive post ~ originally published Feb. 2, 2017 and updated in 2019 My 10-week program about creative expression, “Strings of Passion,” just started and still open for 2019 registration! I find myself so moved by what the members share about...
How I Learned – and Teach – Music Theory on the Harp
The doors are NOW OPEN for “Hands on Harmony” – my foundational class for harpists where you learn the basics of harmony with your HANDS (and your mind, of course) – at your own pace! >> Cyber Special for Harp Players … PLUS MORE!...
Collaboration: Composer, Performer, Symphony & Students
A New Collaboration … How it came about & how you can be part of it Sometimes education and performance can come together in wonderful ways. When harp soloist and educator Robbin Gordon-Cartier and composer/performer Deborah Henson-Conant (“DHC”) decided to...
Brazil – I LOVE YOU!!!
I just got back from the forests of Brazil where I lived, taught, ate, performed and adventured at the beautiful Uaná Eté Music Garden about 2 hours from Rio. It was a jazz immersion with harp players from all over the world: Australia, USA, Canada, France, Greece,...
Blues As Creative Structure
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...
Blues Lets You Tell Your Story with Music
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...