Deborah Henson-Conant's 5th Annual 'Lose your BLUES!' Show
Organization:
The Center for Arts in Natick (TCAN)
Category:
Concert
Geographical Area:
Boston
Start
Date:
1/9/2016
End Date:
1/9/2016
Start Time:
8:00 PM
End Time:
10:30 PM
Event
Info:
A woman singing the Blues isn't so unusual. But this woman plays the harp when she sings. The electric harp. And she straps it on and glides across the stage with it.
It's not your Grandmother's harp, that's for sure. It's a custom-built carbon-fibre instrument stripped down, futuristic. She wears it like Aladdin rode his magic carpet, as a vehicle into another world. A world with sounds you never thought you'd hear coming from a harp: Latin rhythms, Blues riffs, Flamenco strums. A world with stories about ordinary people discovering extraordinary depth inside themselves.
What kind of woman does THAT?
That woman is Deborah Henson-Conant (DHC) - a GRAMMY-Nominated electric harp virtuoso with a wicked sense of humor, a gutsy set of vocal cords and theatrical flair - and there's a reason she always plays a "Lose Your Blues" show in the dark days of early January.
The lead-up to the Holidays is intense - then it all deflates in the cold days of the new year when the Blues hit you hard. That's why every January DHC brings her "Lose your Blues" show to the Boston area.
One of the most inventive humans you'll ever meet brings the instrument she created to give you the adventure of a lifetime into the world of her musical imagination. She invented the instrument, then took it to the CAMAC Harp company in France, where it became the "DHC-Light" the world's top-selling electric harp.
So what does she do with it??
She strides on stage like a rock-star. She sings. She pulls melody, chords, bass lines, percussion and rhythms from her 32 strings, loops them in real-time with a looper pedal, creating soundscapes and rhythmic grooves she improvises over. She uses spoken word and story to riff over the music 'til you can't tell where the speaking stops and the music starts.
When you leave the show you know you've experienced something you never even imagined - and it was funny, deep, impressive, inspiring - unforgettable.
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