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Complaining Again in Boston
I wrote the song “Complaining” in the ’80s, originally for a group of teenage girls in a show called “Marketpace Cabaret” that I wrote with Al Krulick (aka “Al Shakespeare,” the ‘dean of street-performers”). You can hear the original here...
Never Far From Home – Cabaret in Boston Area
I went to a rehearsal of the new cabaret “Never Far From Home” last week and … I gotta tell you … the way they performed my song “I’ll Be Your Sous-Chef, Baby!” I was blushing! Yup! It was that good! Check out a video of the...
My Steve Vai
(A collection of videos, photos and blogs from 3-months on tour with guitar legend Steve Vai in 2012.) You know that fantasy? The one where a great rock legend calls you up and invites you on tour? Suddenly there you are, playing to huge crowds of screaming fans,...
Caught in the Spell
This blog is about a song, and this is the song: [audio: https://hipharp.com/cv/audio/ap2/10_caughtinspell_ap2.mp3] There were nights when I would walk through a deserted Pt. Reyes Station, with Black Mountain looming. I was 17 or 18, in love with a kid from town and...
Why Hair is Curly
Carol and Michael and I lived up above the Dance Palace, along with Emery, my dog. At one point, Sparks, who lived up the hill, started taking all his dinners with us, which was great, because Sparks actually knew how to cook. My culinary repertoire was spaghetti and...
Marin Memoires (List of Blogs)
40 years ago I left the place I loved to learn to be a musician. The place was Pt. Reyes Station in Marin County and the journey brings me back to the very spot of my first performance, where I’ll give a solo show 2013 at the Pt. Reyes Dance Palace in West...
Harp-Style Blues Workshop – Tue. June 25 – San Diego Area
NEW! “Harp-Style Blues” Live Workshop! With Deborah Henson-Conant Tue. June 25 • Museum of Making Music 7:00 – 8:30 pm $30 NOTE! As of 10:30 AM PDT the hands-on portion of this workshop is sold-out. You can still register below and attend as an...
A Night at the Museum – Harp-Style
What if you were the Mona Lisa (she smiled enigmatically)? Or a Picasso (she mused abstractedly)? Well, I am an exhibit at the Museum of Making Music (MOMM) in southern California and on Wednesday June 26th, I’m coming alive at the Museum … of making music! MOMM...
Two Premieres … One Day
Tomorrow – June 1st- is one of those days I LOVE being a composer. In Richmond, VA the American Youth Harp Ensemble is previewing a new arrangement of my “Baroque Flamenco” that they commissioned … … and in Cambridge, MA the...
