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Ezine: BLUES is for HARP PLAYERS (and I don’t mean harmonica)
My online Blues course for harp players starts today … and I first learned to play the ‘Swingin’ Shepherd Blues’ on the harp 30 years ago, I thought it was the coolest thing I’d ever played on the concert harp. 25 years later, Blues has become a huge part of my...
Exclusive for Somerset Attendees!
A message from Kathy DeAngelo of the Somerset Harp Festival on a cool new collaboration we cooked up today!! Would you handcuff yourself to your instrument when you play? No? Then why handcuff yourself to the notes on the page? When you feel like you’re holding on to...
How To Link to the Livestream for Saturday’s Show
I’m so excited to perform the annual ‘Lose Your Blues’ show at TCAN (The Center for Arts in Natick) in the Boston area on Saturday night … and even MORE excited that fans & friends like YOU can watch it worldwide! The show will be...
Show Countdown – with Foodie Blues
It’s two days to my show at the Center for Arts in Natick and my big goal for the day was to get to the studio and record a couple more takes – not just to get the tunes recorded, but because the way I’m recording now is really informing my live...
The Show Countdown – 3 Days!
Today my assistant Beatriz and I had a discussion about whether it’s 4 days before or 3 days before my because I like to think there’s more time. She said get over it. It’s 3. She won. Today, Henry, the videographer came by today to get my cameras....
4 Days Before the Show
My first show of the year – my annual the flow. The more comfortable I am with what I’ve chosen to play, the more comfortable I am being in the moment. I trick myself so I stop worrying about what I’m going to play Share on X So, in a sense, I trick myself so I can...
Who Am I, Anyway?
I was trying to update my bio for my I started asking myself “Who Am I, Anyway??” which led to me jumping over here to my blog where I wrote this: My official “Short Bio” is: “Deborah Henson-Conant is an electric harp virtuoso with a...
Gift Cards & Blues Harpstyle – the Gift of Learning
My new online course just for harp players just opened for registration! It starts January 14th – and if you haven’t gotten a gift for your favorite harp player (which may be YOU) – then get over to use the Early-Bird discount code...The Gift … and the Giving
I’m struck by the difference between the experience of creating — and the experience of sharing what we create – the gift and the giving. It’s on my mind a lot in this season of giving. As an improvising performer, both creation and sharing happen simultaneously...
