Apr 9, 2018 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning
EARLY-BIRD $100-OFF ENDS TONIGHT! Early-Bird ends at MIDNIGHT TONIGHT! Get $100 OFF when you join NOW! This is your only chance this YEAR to take “BLUES HARP-STYLE” with me and the other Academy members in an interactive setting. So come join me and build your...
Apr 4, 2018 | Events, Hip Harp Academy, Online Courses
Sat. Apr. 7 at 2pm EDT Register NOW for the FREE WEBINAR! Registration includes a replay link if you can’t make it there live What if you discovered that THREE CHORDS could set you free? What if they were the key to creating basslines, accompaniment AND melodic...
Apr 4, 2018 | Events, Performance, Performing, Video
These quick video bites give you a taste of some of the pieces you’ll experience when you buy your tickets to my Earth Day show with Symphony Tacoma on Sun. Apr. 22, 2018 in Tacoma, WA. These video cuts from a live orchestral show are super short and you get to...
Apr 3, 2018 | Blues, harp, Harping & Harpists, Harps |
This is an archive post ~ originally published May. 6, 2017 and updated in 2018 If you ever played a game as a kid: jumprope, jacks, hopscotch – you know that the rules are simple, that you can play it alone or with others, and that the fun is in the PLAYING of...
Mar 29, 2018 | Blues, Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Online Courses |
You know those old audio-tapes that claim they can teach you a new language in your sleep? That kind of learning is called hypnopedia and, according to Wikipedia, nobody knows whether it works or not. What I DO know as a performing musician and a musical trainer, is...
Mar 22, 2018 | Composer, Performing |
OK, it’s not exactly Carnegie Hall – it’s the Pantages Theater in Tacoma, WA – and I’ll be there April 22 — but it’s the only joke I ever heard my grandmother tell, and I’m pretty sure she meant it as a lesson and not a joke: A tourist, lost in New...
Mar 22, 2018 | Blues, harp, Harping & Harpists
What do you think ‘the Blues’ is? It’s a style of music, for sure. You could even call it a mode of expression. I was always drawn to music that sounded ‘Bluesy,’ but I didn’t know what ‘the BLUES’ was ‘til I started playing the harp and...
Mar 21, 2018 | Blues, Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Harping & Harpists, Harps |
I always wanted to create a project like this: A 6 day series where harp players get one short riff each day and an MP3 Playalong Blues so they can just down and play their HARPS out!! I created the “Riff-of-the-Day” mini-course as a warmup for my...
Mar 7, 2018 | Featured, Performing
GRAMMY®-Nominated Recording Artist,
Electric Harpist & Vocalist Deborah
Henson-Conant A special Earth Day Celebration with Symphony Tacoma, Sarah Ioannides, Conductor Sun. April 22 at 2:30 PM Pantages Theater 901 Broadway Tacoma, WA 98402 Click HERE for TIX Box...