Mar 8, 2019 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning |
What’s the one thing that opened the doorway to your life’s passion? Could you teach it to someone else? Sing & Play Harp - Learn More! You might have learned it in a few seconds, or a minute or ten minutes. The memory may be hazy. It may seem so...
Mar 2, 2019 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning |
It’s funny that in the past 5 years, as I’ve been creating an online Academy for harp players – specifically to teach arrangement and improv and creative expression – that I’ve never taught the art of singing and playing… Until this...
Jan 20, 2019 | Creativity, Online Courses, [Class-SOP] Strings of Passion |
This is an archive post ~ originally published Feb. 2, 2017 and updated in 2019 My 10-week program about creative expression, “Strings of Passion,” just started and still open for 2019 registration! I find myself so moved by what the members share about...
Nov 8, 2018 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, harp |
For Harp Players Only Tonight at midnight is the DEADLINE to register for “Hip Harp Toolkit” – my arranging class just for harp players — and get a $200 discount PLUS two great Bonus Classes. If you play the harp I don’t want you to miss this...
Oct 9, 2018 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Final Beginning Student Projects (All), Hip Harp Academy |
At the conclusion of many of the online courses at Hip Harp Academy, the students have the opportunity to complete a “Final Beginnings” video project. We call these Final BEGINNING Projects because I tell the students to focus on imperfect completion as a...
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...
Sep 14, 2018 | Baroque Flamenco, Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, harp, Harping & Harpists, Harps
Did you know that some structures FREE you – and others CONSTRAIN you?! Do I have scientific proof? Ummm …. no. I have something better. I have creative proof. Structures imposed from the OUTSIDE can shepherd chaos into order (and, trust me, I love and...
Aug 29, 2018 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Harping & Harpists, Hip Harp Academy, Online Courses |
My new “Jazz for Harps” summer program is in its final weeks and the students have just submitted their “Half-Baked” projects and I’ve shared my feedback with them. When one student took notes on every one of my feedback videos, the...
Aug 2, 2018 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Harps, Travel |
I just got back from the forests of Brazil where I lived, taught, ate, performed and adventured at the beautiful Uaná Eté Music Garden about 2 hours from Rio. It was a jazz immersion with harp players from all over the world: Australia, USA, Canada, France, Greece,...
Jul 4, 2018 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning |
Have you been thinking about freedom? I have. It’s what my July 8th online event for harp players, “Play with Freedom” is all about and it’s what I think about a lot. I’ve been thinking about what it takes to ‘be free’ and how...