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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...![Speak Your Musical Mind … BLUES on Harp](https://www.hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/BHS-Square-image.jpg)
Speak Your Musical Mind … BLUES on Harp
This is an archive post ~ originally published Jan. 3, 2016 and updated in 2018 Would you read every word from a script if you were pouring your heart out to your best friend? No? Then why read every single note when you’re trying to express yourself on the harp? As a...![Blues is where Game and Music Meet](https://hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/BHS-Blues-is-where-game-music-meet.jpg)
Blues is where Game and Music Meet
This is an archive post ~ originally published May. 6, 2017 and updated in 2018 If you ever played a game as a kid: jumprope, jacks, hopscotch – you know that the rules are simple, that you can play it alone or with others, and that the fun is in the PLAYING of...![Deborah Henson-Conant LIVE with Symphony Tacoma](https://hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/180422-EarthSongs-from-harp-Tacoma-square-text.jpg)
Deborah Henson-Conant LIVE with Symphony Tacoma
GRAMMY®-Nominated Recording Artist, Electric Harpist & Vocalist Deborah Henson-Conant A special Earth Day Celebration with Symphony Tacoma, Sarah Ioannides, Conductor Sun. April 22 at 2:30 PM Pantages Theater 901 Broadway Tacoma, WA 98402 Click HERE for TIX Box...![Inside the Creativity Gym](https://www.hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/inside-creativity-gym-video-youtube-arrow.jpg)
Inside the Creativity Gym
Are some people just BORN creative? “Creative” is the word I hear most when people describe me — but I didn’t really know how I got creative until I started teaching creativity to harp players in my online Hip Harp Academy. That’s when ...![Can you make it? Live show & FREE Online Training](https://www.hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Blog-Ezine-CMA-TCAN-SOP_3.gif)
Can you make it? Live show & FREE Online Training
Whew! I escaped Boston just a few hours before the Bomb Cyclone hit – and I just got back from the NYC Chamber Music America conference which was all about the Jazz-Classical connection – which is at the heart of my own concerts, compositions and...![Can you DISTILL experience to its ESSENCE?](https://hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/compilation-essential-dhc-cd-covers-wide-copy-1024x518.jpg)
Can you DISTILL experience to its ESSENCE?
Do you ever wish you could DISTILL a huge amount of knowledge and simplify it down to just what’s essential? Do you wish you could reduce everything in your house, your backpack, your closets, your drawers, your bathroom, your kitchen — maybe even your body,...![Love Gone Bad (Lyrics)](https://www.hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/love-gone-bad-lyricquote-square-1000x675.jpg)
Love Gone Bad (Lyrics)
What’s the best thing about a bad breakup? If your heart’s ever been broken. If you ever knew it was the beginning of the end. If you ever got dumped, or knew you had to dump your lover, then you know what “Love Gone Bad” is all about. So call in the...![Closer to You (Lyrics)](https://www.hipharp.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/closer-to-you-lyricquote-square-1000x675.jpg)