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Harp-Strung Blues for Mind Expansion
Every year I perform my Annual “Lose Your Blues” concert at TCAN (The Center for Arts in Natick) – this year it’s on Sat. Jan. 10th. The impetus is to take the worst weekend in the year – the weekend right after New Years and see just how much fun I can have with it....
Lose your Blues – with a 32-String Electric Harp
The lead-up to the Holidays is intense –then it all deflates in the cold days of January when the Blues hit you hard. That’s why I always brings my Annual Lose Your Blues show to the Boston Area just after New Year’s. =============== Lose your Blues – with a...
Who Says You Can’t Heal a Broken Harp?
During my last rehearsal at IUP (Indiana University of Pennsylvania) Dec. 4 – just a few hours before the show, one of my harp levers bit the dust. It’s not the kind of thing you can just fix later – the lever lets you shift the string into the right...
Nothin’ like a good Tongue-Slap
One of my favorite tunes in last week’s collaboration with the IUP jazz band was the Saxophone Quintet reinterpretation of “Fum Fum Fum” from my Holiday suite “Season of Celebration” — originally for string orchestra and re-orchestrated by Keith Young. Here I am...
Reinventing with the IUP Jazz Band
One day in December 2014 I bundled my harp into Renee’s jeep (Renee’s my amazing Personal Assistant) — and she trundled me off to the Jet Blue terminal at Logan. 4 hours later I landed in Pittsburgh, got into a towncar, firmly regretted half the sushi I’d bought...
Unexpected Collaboration: On Stage and Classroom
Thank you for all the beautiful comments on the State-o-Zen videos I posted for Thanksgiving! Wow – I got more comments on that blog than any other – and I loved them all! I kept adding videos throughout the day, so now there are 6 of them. If you you...DHC’s State o’ Zen Experiments
Last weekend my hard drive crashed. The holidays zoomed up with a vengeance. I realized I was way stressed out. So instead of ‘practicing’ my harp, I just sat down and played. Slowly, no agenda, nothing to prove – I just started playing. And I...
Lively Arts presents Deborah Henson-Conant at IUP
Thursday, December 4, 2014 Deborah Henson-Conant brings her Hip HARP show to Indiana University in Pennsylvania. Deborah Henson-Conant is a Grammy-nominated artist and the world’s premier electric harpist. She is known for high energy shows that fuse music, theater,...
Original Musical “The Golden Cage” – Private Reading
I know it’s kind of a tease to tell you about an event that you probably can’t attend, but I’m so excited about this that I want to share it! On Sunday. Nov. 16 at 6:30pm, ??there’ll be a private, unstaged reading of my original musical...
