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How do YOU define Success?
If you’re like me … some days you can see you’re hitting your mark – we call that ‘progress’ or ‘success.’ And some days you don’t. You feel like you’re slogging or stuck — or stuck slogging – and you’ve lost the thread of action. You don’t know...
2018 in review … from the Harp
As 2018 ends and 2019 begins, I wanted to take a moment to look back at some of the highlights – moments of new beginnings, musical friendships, adventures and projects. JANUARY – A TedX talk “From the Harp” The year began on the TEDx stage...
A Private Affair
What happens when someone wants to share their favorite artist with their favorite group of people? Sometimes they buy a block of tickets to a show. Sometimes they send out links or CDs to share the artist’s music . And sometimes … they actually call up the...
Freedom, can it be followed?
Sun. July 8th I have a free Webinar for Harp Players called “Play with Freedom” Register for FREE here (Registration includes a replay link) We often think of creative freedom as complete independence, marching to our own drummer (who is, supposedly, us?)....
Jazz Standards: If Only I had the KEY!
This is an archive post ~ originally published Feb. 25, 2015 and updated in 2018 When I got my first gig playing lush hotel lobby music with the strolling violins of “Danny Yale and the Regency Strings” I did not personally have to stroll. Nope, my job was to play...
Play, Play, Play the Blues
This is an archive post ~ originally published May 4, 2017 and updated in 2018 When I’m trying to teach … or learn … anything – it always helps me to have a song. This is one I wrote for a workshop on the Blues. The way we did this is that...
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...
Deborah Henson-Conant LIVE with Symphony Tacoma
GRAMMY®-Nominated Recording Artist, Electric Harpist & Vocalist Deborah Henson-Conant A special Earth Day Celebration with Symphony Tacoma, Sarah Ioannides, Conductor Sun. April 22 at 2:30 PM Pantages Theater 901 Broadway Tacoma, WA 98402 Click HERE for TIX Box...
Experiment #1 ~ Join the “Impulse” Experiment
JOIN ME FOR “Strings of Passion” Creativity Experiment #1! Here’s How: Watch this short video, try the experiment … then – if you play the HARP – join me in “Strings of Passion,” the first class of 2018 in my “Hip Harp Academy” for 10 glorious...
