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How do you get to Carnegie Hall – with a checklist?
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...
Blues is language
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...
Blues Harp Riff-of-the-Day!
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...
Deborah Henson-Conant LIVE with Symphony Tacoma
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...
Are you DONE?? or … How to get done without a deadline.
Are you DONE? What does DONE even mean??? After decades of creating and performing my own music, my definition of ‘done’ means ‘in sharable form.’ My whole life I’ve been a composing-perfomer and ’til now, “Done” meant...
Dear Creative Adventurer … Discovering the Strings of Passion
Every week (or so) when I send out to the people on my email list, I begin each email with “Dear Creative Adventurer,” and that started a couple years ago. So … what is creative adventure – and why do I address you as a “Creative Adventurer’? I...
My Mother’s Mexican Hat
NOTE: This story includes an audio file related to the story – if you want to listen while you’re reading, here’s the song: My parents were divorced when I was very young and my mother and I went to live with my Aunt. Aftrer a year or so the three of...
My First Kiss
This is a story I wrote out in 1996 when my local NPR station challenged listeners to write in about their first kiss. This was mine — read on the air Feb. 14, 1996. I lived in North Carolina. He lived in California. When I met him, I was visiting my...
Hip Harp Academy 2018 Schedule of Courses
What you get when you join Hip Harp Academy More than 10 courses to develop your improv, arrangement and performance skills. Learn from Grammy-nominated master harpist and teacher Deborah Henson-Conant in guided lessons and live online play-along Q&A sessions....
