With her electric harp, voice, and a looper pedal, Deborah Henson-Conant
is a Grammy-nominated one-woman orchestra who legendary Tonight Show
trumpeter Doc Severinsen calls the “Wild Woman of the Harp.” Come meet
this amazing musician in a Question and Answer session and
mini-preview performance from 12:00–1:00 p.m. on Wednesday, December 3, 2014, in
the Stapleton Library Commons.
Deborah’s signature
instrument is an 11-pound, carbon-fiber
electric harp, designed specifically
for her by the Camac Harp Company
in France. It’s now one of the
fastest-selling new harp models in the
world and carries her name, the “DHC Light.”
Forget the demure harpist, forget
the classical music, and forget dozing
off in the back row. Henson-Conant
is a showman, entertainer, and solid
musician who’s been compared
to musical greats from Leonard
Bernstein to Elvis
Presley.
She’s
toured with the Boston Pops,
opened for Ray Charles at Tanglewood,
and jammed onstage with Bobby McFerrin and
offstage with Aerosmith’s Steven
Tyler. She’s been featured
on television shows from Charlie
Rose to Joan Rivers and The
View and
in two full-length PBS music specials, and iconic rock guitarist Steve Vai says she’s the “Jimi
Hendrix of the harp.”
Don’t miss out on this unique opportunity to meet a musician who has done nothing but break new ground her entire musical career and life.
This outreach session is presented by ArtsPath, the arts-in-education program of the Lively Arts, in advance of her evening performance at 8:00 p.m. in Fisher Auditorium on Thursday, December 4. For more information, contact Jeff Wacker at the Lively Arts at jwacker@iup.edu, or at 724-357-2787.