Feb 9, 2013 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Composing |
Fact 1: My word for the year is “Release” Fact 2: I was on a phone chat with my coach this week and I asked her for a set of daily practices, kind of like a “Daily Get-Myself-Together Workout.” But she turned the tables on me. In essence she...
Feb 8, 2013 | Jazz Harp, Love Stories (Wired for Love), Projects, Recordings |
I have a very special friend, Peter, and I like to make him a very special Valentine every year. Peter is a long-time collaborator whose vision & support led to my Grammy Nominated project “Invention & Alchemy.” If you’ve been to one of my...
Feb 7, 2013 | Performance, Recordings |
Welcome to the most uncomfortable world in my personal universe: the world of imperfect completion. It’s nothing like the world where I feel safest: on stage, performing live, incorporating anything unexpected into the performance itself, bouncing off...
Jan 24, 2013 | Events, Performance, Projects |
When I’m putting together a show, like the “Lose Your Blues” show coming up this Saturday in the Boston area, part of what’s important to me is the sequence of the tunes – how the flow of the show goes. That’s especially important...
Jan 16, 2013 | Events, Press Release, Tour Diaries |
Deborah Henson-Conant – TCAN – The Center for Arts in Natick Sat. Jan. 26, 2013 – 8:00 pm – Click to Buy tix or keep reading below! Deborah Henson-Conant: Hear the term “Blues Harp” and most people think “Harmonica”...
Jan 9, 2013 | Performance, Songwriting |
Last week I made my and I loved all the comments I got on that blog. Thank you, beloved readers!!! I’d posted two versions: one singing as me (but quieter than me) and one singing as Marilyn Monroe. So … drumroll … here’s this week’s...
Jan 6, 2013 | Composing, Harping & Harpists |
On March 3rd, harpist Elise Hemke will step on stage with the Grand Junction Symphony and play a harp concerto in a concert called “American Portrait.” The concert features four American composers. Three are some of my greatest heroes, composers I’ve...
Jan 4, 2013 | *RockHarp Diaries*, Instrument (My Instrument), People I Meet |
I always feel bad that I my social-media-immediacy quotient is often so low – er … high… well, whatever. So instead of sulking about how much I’m not like those social-media whizzes who can take a photo and post it immediately (oh how I admire...
Jan 3, 2013 | Composing, Projects |
Today I’m working on Soñando en Español – my 3-movement concerto for harp and orchestra. I’m meeting with Elise Hemke, the harpist who’ll play it, via Skype tonight. She’s the first harpist besides me to ever play it and there’s a problem: I...
Jan 2, 2013 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning |
Here’s a quick little video I made in my studio to let you know why I created my online course “Arrange Yourself” and what you’ll learn in it. The next “Arrange Yourself” course begins Jan. 14th. You can learn more and register at...
