Feb 12, 2016 | Composing, Performance |
In April I’ll be performing at the Sensoria festival in Charlotte, NC, playing with a chamber ensemble, conductor Alan Yamamoto and working with choreographer Clay Daniel and his dancers from CCPC, where the festival takes place. Clay asked to see some of the...
Feb 10, 2016 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Performance |
Last week Alexandra, of the artists in my “Harness Your Muse” mastermind, emailed suggesting I enter NPR’s “Tiny Desk Contest.” I thought about it. It meant I’d have to clean my desk. That, alone was reason enough. I could also use it as an exercise, an adventure, a...
Feb 4, 2016 | Baroque Flamenco, Composing |
If I could be … graceful Marie Antoinette dancing Minuet … and the fiery Queen of Flamenco, her heels pounding the floor. Be them … both at once. Not possible? I say possible. That’s why I play music. That’s why I write music. To BE what I am not. To become what...
Feb 3, 2016 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Random Thoughts |
The articulation of human experience is your job. It is your whole job as an artist. (thus said my inner Nanny to me last night) Well … that’s almost your whole job. The other part is sharing it. Don’t roll your eyes at me. Remember …...
Feb 2, 2016 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Harps |
How could you not love these chords?? Today I’m working on the materials for this weekend’s so we can FEEL it and HEAR it, so it comes alive. Hands on Harmony is a workshop about how harmony works on OUR instrument. Since all the content is available to...
Feb 1, 2016 | Random Thoughts |
You are a catalyst for belonging. When you step onto a stage – you make a place for each person in the audience to belong there. And because all the world is a stage, no matter what you’re doing, you can step onto it. You represent your audience on that stage....
Jan 29, 2016 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Harping & Harpists, Jazz Harp |
NEWSFLASH from CYBERSPACE: An amazing noodling breakthrough occurred during Deborah Henson-Conant’s recent Virtual “Hands on Harmony” Beta Retreat! After giving the standard “Just start noodling,” direction during a play-along session the Grammy-Nominated harp...
Jan 19, 2016 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning |
A few days ago I started writing the book I need to read, and I started with something I tell myself and my students all the time: Create Conducive Conditions. Meaning, instead of trying to ‘cope’ with a messy desk or a practice space that’s...
Jan 15, 2016 | Blues, Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Harping & Harpists, Online Courses |
One of the things I do every time I give a new online course is to offer a free Webinar so potential students get a sense of what it’s like to work with me in one of my online programs, and get a taste of the course itself. Then I add it to the course itself as a...
