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Why is Hip HARP not Hip HOP or …What Happens when a Publicist makes a typo
My friend Lisa Lynne asked me to answer some questions for her upcoming where I live, is a hotbed of hip HOP. If I advertised myself in Boston as a Hip Hop artist, I’d be jeered off the stage. And rightly so. But I figured maybe the radio announcer just read the ad...![She’s Just TOO Wild! Or … What Was Your Worst Gig Ever … and WHY?](https://hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/just-too-wild-image.jpg)
She’s Just TOO Wild! Or … What Was Your Worst Gig Ever … and WHY?
My friend Lisa Lynne is writing a by answering a series of questions including – what’s was your worst gig ever? What’s your worst gig ever? There’s really only one show I ever felt bad about – but it was pretty intense. I was booked as a...![What was your favorite marketing collaboration?](https://hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/TSO-marquis-composite.jpg)
What was your favorite marketing collaboration?
Hint: it included a herd of harpists crashing a symphony performance … but let’s go back to the beginning. My collaboration with the Tacoma Symphony a few years ago comes immediately to mind when someone asks me about best experiences collaborating. This...![How do you make the MOST of a Tech Disaster?](https://hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/davey-wolfgang-dhc-JFY-inside-image-photo.jpg)
How do you make the MOST of a Tech Disaster?
In Germany, in the early 90’s, I was road-testing a new electro-acoustic concert harp during a 6-week tour with my trio – Wolfgang Diekmann on bass and Davey Tulloch on percussion (it’s not the harp you see in this picture, by the way). It was a fabulous...![A Culture grows from one Point of Connection: The Harp](https://hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/lisalynne-aryeh-dianarowan-dhc-raymooers-IHJ-2016.jpg)
A Culture grows from one Point of Connection: The Harp
Does this look like a group of old friends in a garden? Well, it is … it’s also a representation of one rich corner of a culture that’s developed over the past 30 years around the lever harp. On the left is Ray Mooers, the creative mind and spirit...![No Garden is Safe from Theatrical Transformation](https://hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/GardenSoiree1.jpg)
No Garden is Safe from Theatrical Transformation
One of my favorite things about being a performer is the act and experience of transformation – and as much as I love playing state-of-the-art theaters, I also love it when people transform a non-performance space into a performance space. I got to experience...![The Bubble Harpist](https://hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/bubble-harp-shelleyfrost-ancenis-1.jpg)
The Bubble Harpist
I’d heard about her for years, but I’d never seen first-hand ’til I got to France: The Bubble Harpist Yup! It’s a harpist – Shelley Frost from Dubai – in a bubble. In a nightclub. Playing with a DJ. And I stayed up ’til 3AM...![France … je t’aime – tous Ensemble!](https://hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/FanWearingFlag.jpg)
France … je t’aime – tous Ensemble!
A few weeks ago I got back from a week in Brittany at the “Harpes au Max” festival in Ancenis. It was wonderful, fun, scary (like when I got stuck in an elevator) and eye-opening (like when I got to see a harpist-in-a-bubble playing house music at a cathedral...![Deborah Henson-Conant at the Cape Cod Jazz Festival 2016](https://hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/CCJF-DHC-2016-Poster-WebPoster-760x1024.jpg)