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How is Marketing like Music?
A Marketing Expert and a Grammy-Nominated Musician explore the question tonight on the new Social Media Platform Blab.im. then head to “How is Marketing like Music?” If you’d rather just ‘lurk’ (as Blabbers call those who just watch...
Music is Connection
When I grew up, music was a huge part of my life but I never listened to records or went to concerts. It was all live. It all happened in my home – or my relatives’ homes – most of it spontaneous — and it ran the gamut from us playing ukes and...
The first step to Real is Make-Believe
I’ve longed for a grand piano for years. Decades. Wednesday night I said: “Enough!” and I built one out of an old table, an electric keyboard, a music stand, a big swatch of black velvet and a long scarf. Then I sat down and played it. It was...
Is Poetry Music without Sound?
This is kind of how music looks in my mind. And I hear myself say this all the time: “The key to creative freedom is structure.” I don’t mean structure imposed from outside – but internal structure. Like bones. Like an arc. I ‘get’...
Can Freedom be Followed?
Today I have a free Webinar for Harp Players (or people who like to crash harp player events) called “Play with Freedom” marching to our own drummer (who is, supposedly, us?). So how could FOLLOWING someone else increase your personal creative freedom? how...
DHC returns to her Jazz roots on the Cape (Press Release)
=============== PRESS RELEASE – Run Through July 1, 2015 =============== Cape Cod Jazz Festival presents: A Night under the Stars at the with Deborah Henson-Conant Wed. July 1st, 2015 at 8:30pm? Wequassett Resort on Pleasant Bay, Chatham, Massachusetts 02633...4 techniques you won’t need at the pearly gates
“She plays stuff you just wouldn’t think could possibly come from the instrument that St. Peter hands out to new arrivals at the pearly gates.” Jeff Kaczmarczyk – Grand Rapids Press I love that quote from Jeff Kaczmarczyk — and the following...
A Life Transformed at Maine’s “Celebration Barn” (Press Release)
=============== PRESS RELEASE – Run Through June 20, 2015 ============== Grammy-Nominated composer and electric harpist Deborah Henson-Conant (DHC) travels all over the world with the electric harp she invented — but it all started for her at “The...
Meet me at the Barn!
BUY TIX NOW! Deborah Henson-Conant Celebration Barn Theater • Sat. June 20 S. Paris, ME 30 years ago I dragged my 6-foot tall, 75-pound harp up to a big red barn in Maine to get coaching from a man who was known as the “Guru of Street Performers.” His...
