Jun 8, 2016 | Performing |
My friend Lisa Lynne asked me to answer some questions for her upcoming where I live, is a hotbed of hip HOP. If I advertised myself in Boston as a Hip Hop artist, I’d be jeered off the stage. And rightly so. But I figured maybe the radio announcer just read the ad...
Jun 8, 2016 | Performing |
My friend Lisa Lynne is writing a by answering a series of questions including – what’s was your worst gig ever? What’s your worst gig ever? There’s really only one show I ever felt bad about – but it was pretty intense. I was booked as a...
Jun 7, 2016 | Performing |
Hint: it included a herd of harpists crashing a symphony performance … but let’s go back to the beginning. My collaboration with the Tacoma Symphony a few years ago comes immediately to mind when someone asks me about best experiences collaborating. This...
Jun 7, 2016 | Performing |
In Germany, in the early 90’s, I was road-testing a new electro-acoustic concert harp during a 6-week tour with my trio – Wolfgang Diekmann on bass and Davey Tulloch on percussion (it’s not the harp you see in this picture, by the way). It was a fabulous...
Jun 3, 2016 | Harping & Harpists, Harps, Instrument (My Instrument) |
Does this look like a group of old friends in a garden? Well, it is … it’s also a representation of one rich corner of a culture that’s developed over the past 30 years around the lever harp. On the left is Ray Mooers, the creative mind and spirit...
Jun 3, 2016 | Performance, Performing, Tour Diaries |
One of my favorite things about being a performer is the act and experience of transformation – and as much as I love playing state-of-the-art theaters, I also love it when people transform a non-performance space into a performance space. I got to experience...
Jun 3, 2016 | Harping & Harpists |
I’d heard about her for years, but I’d never seen first-hand ’til I got to France: The Bubble Harpist Yup! It’s a harpist – Shelley Frost from Dubai – in a bubble. In a nightclub. Playing with a DJ. And I stayed up ’til 3AM...
Jun 3, 2016 | Harping & Harpists, Tour Diaries |
A few weeks ago I got back from a week in Brittany at the “Harpes au Max” festival in Ancenis. It was wonderful, fun, scary (like when I got stuck in an elevator) and eye-opening (like when I got to see a harpist-in-a-bubble playing house music at a cathedral...
May 31, 2016 | Events, Jazz Harp, Press Release |
=============== PRESS RELEASE – Run Through July 12, 2016 =============== Cape Cod Jazz Festival presents: Deborah Henson-Conant: “A Night under the Stars” (electric harp, voice & story) Tuesday, July 12, 2016 at 8:30pm Wequassett Resort on...
May 18, 2016 | Photo Gallery, Tour Diaries, Travel |
For the second time in my life, I got stuck in an elevator. This time, with harpist Shelley Fairplay, two helpful volunteers from the Festival “Harpes au Max” in Ancenis, France … and a bottle of wine. There’s always that fateful little bump. I...
