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Singing the Story of My Life – See you at the Cardiff CAMAC Harp Weekend!
I can’t remember the last time I played in the U.K. – so I’m THRILLED that I have a RARE U.K. CONCERT APPEARANCE on Sun. Mar. 5th — LIVE at the Cardiff CAMAC Harp Weekend! For more info, videos AND the TIX LINK: CLICK HERE!!! And I’ve been thinking about...
How to Sing the Stories of Your Life – Impromptu in Concert
You know how it is, right? You start telling a story, and then you figure – “What the heck, why not just sing it instead?” That’s what happened when someone in the audience at my “Lose Your Blues” show last year asked me about my...
4 Days Before the Show
My first show of the year – my annual the flow. The more comfortable I am with what I’ve chosen to play, the more comfortable I am being in the moment. I trick myself so I stop worrying about what I’m going to play Click To Tweet So, in a sense, I trick myself so I...
Sarah and the Baroque Flamenco
This is a tiny story told through a series of Facebook chats. It started with a Christmas present and ended with a radio interview and an impassioned performance. I especially love the conclusion because it involves my composition “Baroque Flamenco.” This...
Videos From the “Lose Your Blues” Show at TCAN
THIS IS A GUEST BLOG FROM Jeila Irdmusa. Jeila is the featured soprano in the 2014 concert of my song cycles at Boston University, “Mythic Women.” You can read more about that project in this blog: Help Wanted! Concert Name. DHC performed her “Lose Your...
LIVE from the Kickin’ Caribou (Pauline’s Story)
“OK, so I did it. I took myself down to the Kickin’ Caribou Bar at the Arctic Hotel and played Open Mic night. I was so anxious I could hardly breathe.” Meet Pauline Vaughan, a student from my “Hip Harp Toolkit” online course. Pauline is an...THIS IS IT: Musical Transcendence
Here’s is a recorded version of the song this post is about: As we rehearsed “The Nightingale,” I thought: THIS IS IT … … a tiny, huge, quiet, explosive defining moment, and I was in the middle of it. It’s like when you wait for...
Shrunk – “So, how does that feel…?” – A Performer’s Review
My assistant, Bea, asked me to review my own experience of the recent preview of my new piece “Honey, I Shrunk the Harp!” She wanted to know … how did she put it… “what YOU were feeling in the hours leading up to the show, while you were...
