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Laurie Rasmussen – Sun. Nov. 24th – Santa Barbara, CA
Laurie Rasmussen plays “Baroque Flamenco” by Deborah Henson-Conant at the Garvin Theatre. Harpist Laurie Rasmussen will be joining the SBBC Symphony Orchestra on Sun. Nov. 24th at 7pm in Santa Barbara, CA. This concert features Deborah...THIS IS IT: Musical Transcendence
Here’s is a recorded version of the song this post is about: As we rehearsed “The Nightingale,” I thought: THIS IS IT … … a tiny, huge, quiet, explosive defining moment, and I was in the middle of it. It’s like when you wait for...
SOLO One-Woman Show at the Katharine Hepburn Theater
For Immediate Release – Run Through Nov. 15, 2013 Contact: info@HipHarp.com Purchase Tickets Now: Harp & Soul: Electrified The wild-woman of the harp brings her solo show to the beautiful Katharine Hepburn Theater in Old Saybrook, CT Grammy-Nominated...
Mini Musical Excerpts!
This blog is coming to you from Jeila, Deborah’s Artist Liason (cool title, right?) Deborah just cut a bunch of little 30-45 second excerpts of the kinds of pieces she will be playing in her upcoming show with the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra. These will give...
So, what do I actually DO?
People seem to have a hard time wrapping their mind around what I actually do. My new artist liaison, Jeila, can totally relate. Before she started working for me she couldn’t figure me out, either. So, I asked her to look through my bios and choose the...Baroque Flamenco Cadenza Examples
One of my favorite parts of being a composer is seeing and hearing other performers pouring themselves into my music, heart and soul – making it their own. As my piece “Baroque Flamenco” is performed more and more, I get to see new versions of it...Complaining Again in Boston
I wrote the song “Complaining” in the ’80s, originally for a group of teenage girls in a show called “Marketpace Cabaret” that I wrote with Al Krulick (aka “Al Shakespeare,” the ‘dean of street-performers”). You can hear the original here...
Never Far From Home – Cabaret in Boston Area
I went to a rehearsal of the new cabaret “Never Far From Home” last week and … I gotta tell you … the way they performed my song “I’ll Be Your Sous-Chef, Baby!” I was blushing! Yup! It was that good! Check out a video of the...
A Night at the Museum – Harp-Style
What if you were the Mona Lisa (she smiled enigmatically)? Or a Picasso (she mused abstractedly)? Well, I am an exhibit at the Museum of Making Music (MOMM) in southern California and on Wednesday June 26th, I’m coming alive at the Museum … of making music! MOMM...
