![Meet Flagpole Radio Cafe Producer Martin Blanco](https://hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Flagpole_2012_Feb29.jpg)
![Meet Flagpole Radio Cafe Producer Martin Blanco](https://hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Flagpole_2012_Feb29.jpg)
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Shrimps
When my cat gets anxious she starts licking her fur. Apparently I start drawing shrimp. Here are this week’s shrimps …. (sorry the mustachioed shrimp is so fuzzy – I’ll deal with that later … or not) Ahhh … now I feel better. How...![Sat. Sept. 28 – Flagpole Radio Cafe – Newtown, CT](https://hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/poster-dhc-flagpole1.jpg)
Sat. Sept. 28 – Flagpole Radio Cafe – Newtown, CT
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Sat. Sept. 28 – 7pm – Newtown, CT – Buy Tix Now I have a new show in less than two weeks — and if that sounds like it came out of the blue — it did! In the world of shows and concerts, most are booked months or...![A Show of Force at the Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony](https://hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/zeroclub_trdcd_fnt_375p_w.jpg)
A Show of Force at the Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony
From a kitchen in Somerville, MA to a Show of Force at the Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony … here’s how it happened. Why do we do ridiculous things? Crazy. Silly. Dangerous – to body or career. Pointless … Fun. I finally accepted I’m drawn to the...![A Funny Thing Happened this week on Facebook](https://hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/facebook-why-i-play-harp2.jpg)
A Funny Thing Happened this week on Facebook
I can still feel overwhelmed and lost in the social media world — the same way I often feel in the real social world — but I have a very strong sense of connection to the 5000+ people who ‘like’ my official Facebook page, and I often find myself curious...![The Man Who Moved Harpists](https://hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/jarman-martin-carry-harp-smlr.jpg)
The Man Who Moved Harpists
People talk about supporting the arts. I want to talk about a man who made his life and his business a support of musicians – a certain kind of musicians: musicians with bulky, cumbersome, delicate instruments. Like harps. … also timpani, and big...![Where’s My Cowboy Now?](https://hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/cowboyboots_1842-fresco.jpg)
Where’s My Cowboy Now?
We went down the driveway to the main road to throw rocks at cars. I remember it as the day of my Grandfather’s funeral. My good buddy Stephen Holmes was visiting. We were about 4 or 5, I guess, and we’d been told to get out of the house. So we went to...![Watermelon Boogie – for National Watermelon Day!!!](https://hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/watermelon-buying-guide.jpg)
Watermelon Boogie – for National Watermelon Day!!!
How could I have missed it?? It’s National Watermelon Day and I just found out! Mark Twain said “Once you’ve tasted watermelon, you know what the angels eat.” (OK, maybe he said, “When one has tasted watermelon he knows what the angels...![Headless Venus](https://hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/headless-venus-2.jpg)
Headless Venus
She was my 5th or 6th grade project for history and social studies. I waited ‘til the night before the project was due. Not avoiding it – just obsessing over it. We were studying ancient Greece and Rome. Finally I took my mother’s Venus, the eight-inch statue...![Pluckin’ Beethoven](https://hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/tracksuit-fur-elise.jpg)