The lead-up to the Holidays is intense, then it all deflates in the cold days of January when the Blues hit you hard. That's why electric-harp legend Deborah Henson-Conant brings her Annual "Lose Your Blues" show to the Boston Area just after New Year's.
Imagine a 32-string harp shrunk to the size of a crossbow, she strides onto stage with the swagger of a matador, straps on her instrument and plugs it in like an electric guitar. She sings & tells stories, pulling sounds from the harp you'd never expect to hear: Blues, Flamenco, even Rock licks.
She is GRAMMY-Nominated composer and performer Deborah Henson-Conant. The instrument is a 32-String electric harp invented for her. She's toured with Rock legend Steve Vai and the renowned Boston Pops, she's opened for Ray Charles at Tanglewood and had her own music special on PBS, but her forte is solo shows.
Ok, so what does DHC actually do?
She sings, tells stories, and plays the harp - but not like any harp you've seen or heard before. It's a 11 lb. carbon-fibre harp that was built in France using top racing bike technology. It's fully electric, with a pickup on every string, so it can sound as angelic as a harp, or as driving as an electric guitar. Named after her, the "DHC Light" is now the top-selling electric harp in the world with waiting lists of nearly half-a-year!
She straps it on with a harness, and uses a looper pedal to layer sounds that pad and prod her voice, in spoken word, belting Broadway-style or lilting like a Celtic lullaby.
She's a solo performer - someone who loves to create an entire world just from what she can do with hands, feet, instrument and voice, bringing stories alive with spoken word and music. Her shows are a night of music and humor, that she can feel comfortable bringing anyone to see: from her rock-playing nephew to a new flame to her best friend's mother.
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