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PLAY with FREEDOM – FREE Webinar for Harp Players – REPLAY available NOW

Jul 4, 2019 | Events, Hip Harp Academy, Online Courses

Grab the INSTANT Replay! Yes! I want the INSTANT Replay! What if you discovered that FOUR SIMPLE CHORDS could set you free? What if they were your key to creating basslines, accompaniment AND melodic improvs? What if this was the first step to a lifetime of expanding... read more

2018 in review … from the Harp

Dec 27, 2018 | Events, Harping & Harpists, Online Courses, Performing, Projects | 1 comment

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... read more

[Webinar] LOOP your HARP! With Deborah Henson-Conant & Shelley Fairplay

Sep 20, 2018 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, harp, Harping & Harpists, Harps, Hip Harp Academy

REGISTER NOW FOR INSTANT REPLAY OF THIS FREE WEBINAR with Deborah Henson-Conant & Special Guest Shelley Fairplay RECORDED MON. SEP. 24 at 4:30 EDT / 21:30 U.K. Register for FREE Instant REPLAY Registration includes a replay link if you can’t make it live... read more

Structure is FREEDOM – FREE Webinar for Harp Players

Sep 13, 2018 | Events, Hip Harp Academy, Online Courses

REGISTER NOW FOR THE INSTANT REPLAY! (Recorded Sun. Sept. 16th at 3:30 pm EDT) Register Now for FREE Registration includes a replay link if you can’t make it there live REGISTERING FOR THIS training includes membership in my mailing list. If you want to... read more

PLAY with FREEDOM – FREE Webinar for Harp Players

Jul 3, 2018 | Events, Hip Harp Academy, Online Courses

Recorded Sun. July 8 at 2:30 pm EDT Register NOW for the FREE WEBINAR! Register For Instant Replay Now Registration includes a replay link if you can’t make it there live What if you discovered that FOUR SIMPLE CHORDS could set you free? What if they were your... read more

Jazz Is …

Jun 8, 2018 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Online Courses

Is Jazz a STYLE of music? A WAY of playing? A way of thinking? An analogy for life? That’s part of what I talk about in a free webinar called “What is Jazz? (and why play it on a harp??).” You can click the link to watch the replay! “What is Jazz” is a... read more

Jazz for Harps – What’s it All About?

May 29, 2018 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Online Courses

If you play the harp, I want you to know about Jazz for Harps. If you don’t play the harp, you might be interested in reading about how jazz works. “Jazz for Harps” is a brand new program – and before I tell you exactly what’s in the program... read more

All that Jazz Harp

May 17, 2018 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Jazz Harp, Performance | 1 comment

This is an archive post ~ originally published Nov. 29, 2010 and updated in 2018 The international Jazz-Harp organization in Holland sent me a questionnaire as part of research to find out if harpists and jazz musicians support the idea of a formal Bachelor program... read more

Speak Your Musical Mind … BLUES on Harp

Apr 11, 2018 | Blues, Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Harping & Harpists | 0 comments

This is an archive post ~ originally published Jan. 3, 2016 and updated in 2018 Would you read every word from a script if you were pouring your heart out to your best friend? No? Then why read every single note when you’re trying to express yourself on the harp? As a... read more

Blues Harp Riff-of-the-Day!

Mar 21, 2018 | Blues, Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Harping & Harpists, Harps | 0 comments

I always wanted to create a project like this: A 6 day series where harp players get one short riff each day and an MP3 Playalong Blues so they can just down and play their HARPS out!! I created the “Riff-of-the-Day” mini-course as a warmup for my... read more