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Composer – Performer
I usually consider myself a composer-performer. But I love the moments I become a composer to someone else’s performer. When I was 12 I knew I wanted to be a composer – to meld story with music in operas, musicals, art songs – stories with music in...
Contemplating the Blues on a 32-String Harp
As I get ready to start my Blues HarpStyle 2017 online class with over 100 harpists from all around the world I’m thinking deeply about what the Blues IS and what it gives us. At it’s heart it’s such a simple form – 12 bars long, with infinite...
Blues Harp ‘Riff-of-the-Day’ – RIFF #1
I always wanted to do a little project like this: A 6 day series where harp players get one short riff each day and an MP3 Blues so they can play their HARPS out!! And this is it! Read more about Blues Harp “Riff-of-the-Day” project here. I created the...
Watching the Watchers as a Peach Tree Blossoms
Outside my studio window there’s a slope of wild shrubs and grasses – and in the middle of it, there’s a peach tree. Once a year it blooms for about a week. That week is happening now. I caught this branch just before twilight a couple nights ago....
Strings of Passion -LIVE! Full-Day Workshop at International Harp Festival
The International Harp Festival returns to the San Damiano Retreat Center in the beautiful San Fransisco area hillside town of Danville, CA, May 25 – 29, 2017 and I’ve been invited to present my Full-Day Immersion Experience “Strings of...
A Week in Wales
Wow! What a week in Cardiff, Wales! I had such an amazing time at the CAMAC Cardiff Harp Weekend and the mini-retreat for the folks in my “Harness Your Muse” mentorship during week that followed. Here are some photo and video memories to give you a...
Still Life with Flu
I call these photos “Still Life with Flu” – the little stories in the arrangement of bowls and cups and half-eaten toast that I discover when I walk back into a room. I’ve spent the last 9 days mostly flat on my back, epic coughing jags, mostly...
Singing the Story of My Life – See you at the Cardiff CAMAC Harp Weekend!
I can’t remember the last time I played in the U.K. – so I’m THRILLED that I have a RARE U.K. CONCERT APPEARANCE on Sun. Mar. 5th — LIVE at the Cardiff CAMAC Harp Weekend! For more info, videos AND the TIX LINK: CLICK HERE!!! And I’ve been thinking about...
What can you EXPECT at a Deborah Henson-Conant show?
On a snowy night, wind so strong the house was shaking, I uploaded a 90-second clip of great audience Live-Show quotes to promote my next show: The CLOSING concert at the Cardiff CAMAC Harp Weekend in Wales, Sun. March 5th at 5PM. (More info, videos AND a link to BUY...
