May 4, 2018 | Composer, Events, Harping & Harpists, Tour Diaries |
Last week I got back from Tacoma, WA where I had the joy of playing with the passionate (and sometimes unexpectedly comedic) musicians in Symphony Tacoma and their great new conductor conductor Sarah Ioannides – and to introduce the “Tacoma...
May 4, 2018 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Composing, Events, Harping & Harpists |
A few days ago I got a video from my performance last summer at a great little harp festival called “Somerset.” When I say, “little festival,” there are actually hundreds of people who attend Somerset Folk Harp Festival each year – harp players, spouses – and a big...
Apr 19, 2018 | Uncategorized |
Every time I do a show, I feel like it’s a new beginning because every time I’m adding, tweaking, changing, discovering, expanding, challenging. For my April 22nd Symphony Tacoma show “Earth Songs from the Harp” (INFO & TIX HERE!) I developed...
Apr 19, 2018 | Composer, Concerts, Events, Performance
I’m playing with Symphony Tacoma this Sun. Apr. 22 in a special Earth Day concert in Seattle-Tacoma and I just landed in the beautiful Northwest. But yesterday … Yesterday it took only one minute for my Uber driver to get to my house — barely enough...
Apr 17, 2018 | Collaboration, Concerts, Events, Harping & Harpists, Performing |
Meet the Nine HARPISTS who will join me onstage with SYMPHONY TACOMA Sun., Apr. 22, 2018 ~ 2:30 pm Stella DeSantis • Clara Fredrickson Grace Gallo • Jessica Gallo Meg Mann • Naomi Maxwell • Martina Preston Cassie Reinbolt Turner • Abigail Wooster In...
Apr 16, 2018 | Blues, Harps |
This is an archive post ~ originally published May 4, 2017 and updated in 2018 When I’m trying to teach … or learn … anything – it always helps me to have a song. This is one I wrote for a workshop on the Blues. The way we did this is that...
Apr 13, 2018 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Creativity, Harping & Harpists, Jazz Harp |
This is an archive post ~ originally published Jun. 18, 2013 and updated in 2018 I recently had a mastermind session with music therapist, coach & harpist Trista Hill about my online program Blues Harp-Style, a 6-Week program on the Blues specifically for harp...
Apr 12, 2018 | Events, Hip Harp Academy, Online Courses
Introducing! The New “START HARP” Online Program! Sun. April 15 at 2:30pm EDT Hosted by Deborah Henson-Conant Register NOW for this FREE WEBINAR! Registration includes a replay link if you can’t make it there live REGISTERING FOR THIS training...
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...
