Dec 17, 2014 | Blues, Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Events, Harping & Harpists, Online Courses, Performance |
Every year I perform my Annual “Lose Your Blues” concert at TCAN (The Center for Arts in Natick) – this year it’s on Sat. Jan. 10th. The impetus is to take the worst weekend in the year – the weekend right after New Years and see just how much fun I can have with it....
Dec 17, 2014 | Blues, Events, Performance, Press Release |
The lead-up to the Holidays is intense –then it all deflates in the cold days of January when the Blues hit you hard. That’s why I always brings my Annual Lose Your Blues show to the Boston Area just after New Year’s. =============== Lose your Blues – with a...
Dec 16, 2014 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Harping & Harpists, Instrument (My Instrument), Performance |
During my last rehearsal at IUP (Indiana University of Pennsylvania) Dec. 4 – just a few hours before the show, one of my harp levers bit the dust. It’s not the kind of thing you can just fix later – the lever lets you shift the string into the right...
Dec 11, 2014 | Collaboration, Composing, Performance |
One of my favorite tunes in last week’s collaboration with the IUP jazz band was the Saxophone Quintet reinterpretation of “Fum Fum Fum” from my Holiday suite “Season of Celebration” — originally for string orchestra and re-orchestrated by Keith Young. Here I am...
Dec 10, 2014 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Composing, Creativity, Events, Harping & Harpists, Jazz Harp, Performance, Tour Diaries |
One day in December 2014 I bundled my harp into Renee’s jeep (Renee’s my amazing Personal Assistant) — and she trundled me off to the Jet Blue terminal at Logan. 4 hours later I landed in Pittsburgh, got into a towncar, firmly regretted half the sushi I’d bought...
Nov 26, 2014 | Creativity, Projects |
Last weekend my hard drive crashed. The holidays zoomed up with a vengeance. I realized I was way stressed out. So instead of ‘practicing’ my harp, I just sat down and played. Slowly, no agenda, nothing to prove – I just started playing. And I...
Nov 21, 2014 | Events, Performance |
Thursday, December 4, 2014 Deborah Henson-Conant brings her Hip HARP show to Indiana University in Pennsylvania. Deborah Henson-Conant is a Grammy-nominated artist and the world’s premier electric harpist. She is known for high energy shows that fuse music, theater,...
Nov 12, 2014 | Composing, Creativity, Events, Performance, Projects |
I know it’s kind of a tease to tell you about an event that you probably can’t attend, but I’m so excited about this that I want to share it! On Sunday. Nov. 16 at 6:30pm, ??there’ll be a private, unstaged reading of my original musical...
