|  Deborah
Henson-Conant - Bio
Contact:
Michael Belcher - publicity@hipharp.com
Tel:
(781) 483-3556 - Fax: (781) 483-3987 -
To
describe Deborah Henson-Conant is nearly impossible.
She’s a cross-genre, Blues-Flamenco-Celtic-Funk-Folk-Jazz
dynamo. She tells tall tales with the ease of a stand-up comic.
She solos and wails like a rock guitarist. She turns music
into theater and theater into something lyrical. See her once
and you’ll never look at the harp the same way again.
She
performs in symphony halls as a soloist with major orchestras,
and she plays intimate shows in jazz clubs and theaters nationwide.
She has toured with the Boston Pops, opened for Ray Charles
at Tanglewood, jammed onstage with Bobbie McFerrin and offstage
with Aerosmith's Steven Tyler, and starred in the PBS special
"Celtic Harpestry.” She's been featured on shows
from CBS’ “Sunday Morning” and NBC’s
“Today Show” to NPR’s “Weekend Edition”
and the Food Network’s “Warped,” and interviewed
by hosts and journalists from Scott Simon, Susan Stamberg
and Studs Terkel to Charlie Rose and Joan Rivers.
Her
DVD & CD project with the Grand Rapids Symphony, "Invention
and Alchemy," received a Grammy Nomination and debuts
nationwide on PBS stations in 2007. The project features
her one-woman show with 80-piece orchestra. The
DVD is a full-length concert program with over 45 minutes
of behind-the-scenes features; a multi-camera, surround-sound
disc, shot in hi-definition. It has an Emmy-winning director,
Grammy-winning sound engineers and a program of symphonic
music theater that brings Deborah’s show closer than
the front row.
Deborah's
audiences are as diverse as her music - musicians
who want to see what it takes to create a unique musical style
and fans of all ages who want to be both moved and entertained.
The front rows of her concerts are often filled with families,
brought by parents who want their children to see firsthand
what it means to passionately follow your own creative path.
Deborah
Henson-Conant: a prolific composer, a revolutionary player
and a performer of irrepressible spirit.
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