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Harp Dreams
Sylvia Woods asked me to write an article about my life and my composing for harp to accompany a sale she was having on my sheet music downloads in her store earlier this year. This is the original version of the article along with all the photos I offered her....![How do YOU define Success?](https://www.hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/join-me-bustop-photo-1080x576.jpg)
How do YOU define Success?
If you’re like me … some days you can see you’re hitting your mark – we call that ‘progress’ or ‘success.’ And some days you don’t. You feel like you’re slogging or stuck — or stuck slogging – and you’ve lost the thread of action. You don’t know...![2018 in review … from the Harp](https://hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/TEDx-YouTube-Widget-image.jpg)
2018 in review … from the Harp
As 2018 ends and 2019 begins, I wanted to take a moment to look back at some of the highlights – moments of new beginnings, musical friendships, adventures and projects. JANUARY – A TedX talk “From the Harp” The year began on the TEDx stage...![A Private Affair](https://hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/dhc-blue-background-dittrich-event-franklin-01-spotlight-1100px.jpg)
A Private Affair
What happens when someone wants to share their favorite artist with their favorite group of people? Sometimes they buy a block of tickets to a show. Sometimes they send out links or CDs to share the artist’s music . And sometimes … they actually call up the...![Freedom, can it be followed?](https://www.hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/can-freedom-be-followed-vai-dhc-longshot.png)
Freedom, can it be followed?
Sun. July 8th I have a free Webinar for Harp Players called “Play with Freedom” Register for FREE here (Registration includes a replay link) We often think of creative freedom as complete independence, marching to our own drummer (who is, supposedly, us?)....![Jazz Standards: If Only I had the KEY!](https://www.hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/dhc-danny-yale-regency-strings-frame-1024x648.png)
Jazz Standards: If Only I had the KEY!
This is an archive post ~ originally published Feb. 25, 2015 and updated in 2018 When I got my first gig playing lush hotel lobby music with the strolling violins of “Danny Yale and the Regency Strings” I did not personally have to stroll. Nope, my job was to play...![Play, Play, Play the Blues](https://hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Cover-Blues-Guy-1-e1493871732472.jpg)
Play, Play, Play the Blues
This is an archive post ~ originally published May 4, 2017 and updated in 2018 When I’m trying to teach … or learn … anything – it always helps me to have a song. This is one I wrote for a workshop on the Blues. The way we did this is that...![Blues Lets You Tell Your Story with Music](https://www.hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/blues-lets-you-tell-your-story-with-music-jake-1024x532.jpg)
Blues Lets You Tell Your Story with Music
This is an archive post ~ originally published Jan. 13, 2016 and updated in 2018 A few years back at a show in the Boston area, I launched into an impromptu story of my life and how I started playing the harp – all while playing the harp. Afterwards, the theater owner...![Deborah Henson-Conant LIVE with Symphony Tacoma](https://hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/180422-EarthSongs-from-harp-Tacoma-square-text.jpg)