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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?
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?
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?
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
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
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
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!
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
=============== PRESS RELEASE – Run Through July 12, 2016 =============== Cape Cod Jazz Festival presents: Deborah Henson-Conant: “A Night under the Stars” (electric harp, voice & story) Tuesday, July 12, 2016 at 8:30pm Wequassett Resort on...
