Jul 20, 2020 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Events, Online Courses |
HARPISTS! Supercharge Your Playing
Lead Sheet Bootcamp This Full-Day Virtual Workshop with Deborah Henson-Conant was recorded at the Online Somerset Harp Festival 2020. This One-Day Workshop is now a 3-Day Retreat! Join the “Lead Sheet Bootcamp” RETREAT...
Jul 13, 2020 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Creativity, Harping & Harpists, Hip Harp Academy, Interviews, Video |
Deborah Henson-Conant & Hip Harp Academy Present: An “In-Between the Music” Conversation“Jung at Harp & the Strings of Passion” With Kathleen Wiley A YouTube series about music & the Strings of Passionand how they relate to the principles of Jungian...
Nov 14, 2019 | Inside Look, Random Thoughts |
So there I am at 17, living in a dance collective in rural Northern California when the piano player, John Timothy, brings in a 33″ vinyl record and says, “Listen to this!” It’s Les McCann & Eddie Harris’s “Compared To What” – and I’ve never heard...
Sep 29, 2019 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Harping & Harpists, Hip Harp Academy, [Class-HHT] Hip Harp Toolkit, [HHT] Hip Harp Toolkit Class |
So there I am – I’m at my first big harp gig in a fancy hotel. I’m subbing for the regular harpist. I’m in my early 20’s – I’ve only been playing about a year and a half. I literally only know four pieces – and the gig is 4 hours long. So I play...
![Finding Creative Freedom – One Pluck at a Time [Harpists Margi Miller & Sally Walstrum speak out in words and music]](https://hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/sally-walstrum-concert-blue-dhc-harp-library.jpg)
Sep 26, 2019 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Harping & Harpists, Hip Harp Academy |
Harpist Sally Walstrum and Margi Miller both started taking classes at Hip Harp Academy, my year-long training program for harpists – more than 3 years ago. They each came to the harp in very different ways with very different skills. Sally started the harp as a...
![Jung at Harp [2] The Conversation Continues](https://www.hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Screen-Shot-2019-09-10-at-2.26.07-PM.jpg)
Sep 10, 2019 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Creativity, Harping & Harpists, Hip Harp Academy, Interviews, Video |
Deborah Henson-Conant & Hip Harp Academy Present: An “In-Between the Music” Conversation “Jung at Harp [2] – the Conversation Conitnues” A conversation about music and … the principles of Jungian Analysis “In Between the Music” is a series of...
Sep 7, 2019 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Hip Harp Academy, Online Courses |
“Hip Harp Toolkit” is my Fall online course for harp players that teaches the incredibly fun game of creating improvising arrangements! It’s the foundation of all my other courses! Below are just 10 of the reasons students tell me this course...
Jul 30, 2019 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Concerts, Events, Harping & Harpists |
Earlier this month I spent a weekend with an amazing group of harp players from all walks of life at the Somerset Harp Weekend – beginners and professionals and everything in between – teaching, learning, playing and sharing stories. I had the honor of...
Jul 11, 2019 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Hip Harp Academy |
You probably have something you do every day when you engage with the world, open to unexpected encounters. For some people it’s going to a coffee shop, a walk to work, a subway ride … For me – it’s running. I run nearly every day – and...
Jul 3, 2019 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Hip Harp Academy, Online Courses |
“Summer Harp Jam” is my 6-Week virtual summer camp that’s exclusively for harp players – lever or pedal, from fledgling to professional – and gives you a treasure chest of jams, vamps and play-alongs that strengthen your improvisation and rhythm skills while you’re...
