Sep 13, 2018 | Events, Hip Harp Academy, Online Courses
REGISTER NOW FOR THE INSTANT REPLAY! (Recorded Sun. Sept. 16th at 3:30 pm EDT) Register Now for FREE Registration includes a replay link if you can’t make it there live REGISTERING FOR THIS training includes membership in my mailing list. If you want to...
Sep 11, 2018 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Hip Harp Academy, Uncategorized |
When I created my online school for harp players, “Hip Harp Academy,” I knew that the year-long curriculum in improv, arrangement and creative expression was not for beginners. “Advanced Beginners” yes — and all the way up to...
Sep 11, 2018 | Baroque Flamenco, Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Collaboration, Composer, Harps, Performance |
A New Collaboration … How it came about & how you can be part of it Sometimes education and performance can come together in wonderful ways. When harp soloist and educator Robbin Gordon-Cartier and composer/performer Deborah Henson-Conant (“DHC”) decided to...
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 28, 2018 | Collaboration, harp, Harping & Harpists, Video |
The past month we’ve been renovating the whole first floor at Hip Harp Headquarters: my assistant Renee, her boyfriend, Tommy, and a builder, Andrew, who led us all in scraping, painting, rebuilding shelves, liberating wood floors, pulling off old wallpaper and...
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 12, 2018 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Events, Jazz Harp |
What if you could spend 10 days in the forests of Brazil with some of the worlds greatest jazz harp teachers … … while they shared all their secrets about playing jazz on the harp with you? Well, you can do exactly that! Just catch a flight to Rio next...
Jul 12, 2018 | Events, Performance, Performing |
This Show is being Re-ScheduledPlease check back for the new date in September. What do these 4 performers have in common: Christine Lavin, Don White, Jimmy Tingle & Deborah Henson-Conant? Well … They’re all committed to telling truth with humor...
Jul 6, 2018 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, harp, Harping & Harpists, Harps |
Yeah, yeah … the fireworks of July 4th Independence Day have faded – but freedom is something I need to think about every day as a creative – and I’ll bet you do, too. So I wondered what I could learn from the Declaration of Independence about...
