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...
Mar 26, 2020 | Events, Hidden from Blog, Hip Harp Academy, Online Courses
Wait! Before you read on, I have a confession from this web page: I am an unfinished page. My links don’t work yet. My content hasn’t been edited. I’m still a template waiting to be filled in – or a draft about to be edited. Please come back later and...
Sep 22, 2019 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Harping & Harpists, Harps, [HHT] Hip Harp Toolkit Class |
What if … What if you took a class where you discovered you could just sit down and improvise your own arrangements? Boom! Just like that! What if it was like one of those dreams where you realize you can suddenly do something you always longed to do – and the...
Jan 17, 2019 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Online Courses, [Class-SOP] Strings of Passion |
This is an archive post ~ originally published Jan. 7, 2017 and updated in 2019 “You must always look for those strings in life because they are all around. The strings in the sugar water that will bring ideas to them, that will bring people to them, that will be the...
Jan 17, 2019 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Creativity, harp, Online Courses, Projects, [Class-SOP] Strings of Passion |
This is an archive post ~ originally published Jan. 6, 2017 and updated in 2019 “The strings of passion – these seven principles – they’re not steps, they’re strings like the strings of our instrument. And there are seven, just like there...
Jan 16, 2019 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Online Courses, [Class-SOP] Strings of Passion |
This is an archive post ~ originally published in 2017 and updated Jan. 17, 2019 “Sometimes we lose the creative impulse because there are obstacles in our way. But it’s always there. It’s always there.” The quote above is from the following...
Jan 12, 2019 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Online Courses, [Class-SOP] Strings of Passion |
This is an archive “Strings of Passion” post ~ originally published Jan. 1, 2017 and updated in 2019 I love to work with impassioned people. I love to learn from impassioned people,I love to talk to impassioned people,I love to play with impassioned...
Apr 12, 2018 | Blues, Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning |
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...
Apr 11, 2018 | Blues, Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Harping & Harpists |
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...
May 10, 2017 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Final Beginning Blues Harpstyle Student Projects (BHS3), Harping & Harpists |
At the end of my online course for harpists, “Blues HarpStyle” I invite everyone in the course to share a Final “Beginning” project – their own Blues on harp. In 2015, 21 of the 50 people in the course created Blues videos to complete the...
