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ON THE ROAD to Norfolk, VA & S.F. Bay Area
I arrived in Norfolk late Wednesday night and spent the day yesterday practicing, foraging for food, fixing my harp harness and exploring Norfolk. I like arriving a day early before shows so I can get a sense of a town, meet people, find a health food store...![Deborah Henson-Conant LIVE at the VA Arts Festival Fringe!](https://hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Banner-boost-VAFestivalFringe-170526.jpg)
Deborah Henson-Conant LIVE at the VA Arts Festival Fringe!
I’m excited about my performance at the new Virginia Arts Festival Fringe this weekend. I thought you might enjoy seeing the program bio so … Here’s the program bio This Grammy-nominated electric harp virtuoso has a wicked sense of humor, a...![DHC interviews International Harp Festival Harpists](https://www.hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/2017-j-ellis-ihf-interview.jpg)
DHC interviews International Harp Festival Harpists
The 2017 International Harp Festival (IHF) will once again be held at the beautiful San Damiano Retreat Center with the mission to educate, inspire, and connect harpists from around the globe. Along with many workshops for harpists, there will also be nightly concerts...![Ida Yang lets my “Nightingale” sing at TEDx](https://hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/ida-yang-nightingale-youtube_text.jpg)
Ida Yang lets my “Nightingale” sing at TEDx
As a composer, the joy of hearing my music performed beautifully is the big payoff. Hearing performers make the music their own is what inspires me to write more, to get down on paper more of the music that fills my studio. One of the things I love about this...![Final BEGINNING Projects for Blues HarpStyle](https://www.hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/BHS3-2015-Spring-FinalCollage-LoRes_v1.png)
Final BEGINNING Projects for Blues HarpStyle
At the end of my online course for harpists, “Blues HarpStyle” I invite everyone in the course to share a Final “Beginning” project – their own Blues on harp. In 2015, 21 of the 50 people in the course created Blues videos to complete the...![LIVE Concert in San Fran Area on May 28th!](https://hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Banner-boost-IHF-SFBayArea-170528.jpg)
LIVE Concert in San Fran Area on May 28th!
The 2017 International Harp Festival (IHF) will once again be held at the beautiful San Damiano Retreat Center with the mission to educate, inspire, and connect harpists from around the globe. Along with many workshops for harpists, there will also be nightly...![New Blues on 5-Part Kokle](https://hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/newblues-eglite-anda-kokle-ensemble-youtube-text.jpg)
New Blues on 5-Part Kokle
Composer’s Spotlight Series: Agna Eglite’s Kokle Ensemble plays ‘New Blues’ More and more these days, Google Alerts drops a video gift into my inbox of someone performing one of my pieces. Today I was floored by an arrangement of my “New Blues” the...![Blues is a Lingua Franca](https://www.hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/BHS-lingua-franca-blog-square-text.jpg)
Blues is a Lingua Franca
This is an archive post ~ originally published May. 6, 2017 and updated in 2018 What if there was a language you could learn that let you speak – and listen – fluently with anyone in the world, regardless of their language? “Lingua Franca ~ ˌliNGɡwə...![FREE WEBINAR for HARP Players: Play the Game of Blues](https://hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/BHS-FB-Webinar-PlayGameBlues-boost.jpg)