13th Annual Cape Cod Jazz Festival at Wequassett Resort
Category:
Music
Geographical Area:
Boston
Start
Date:
7/12/2016
End Date:
7/12/2016
Start Time:
8:30 PM
End Time:
10:00 PM
Event
Info:
Deborah Henson-Conant (DHC) doesn't just play her instrument. She invented it, and wears it like an extended body-part. It's a 32-string electric body-harp and she's a Grammy-Nominated composer and performer with a wicked sense of humor, a gutsy set of vocal cords and theatrical flair.
She tours the world with her body-harp. Playing, singing and telling stories from her life while creating improvised soundscapes for her shows from jazz, to latin, to musical-theater styles and powering the music with electric guitar effects and a looper pedal. She's written countless one-woman shows, concertos and chamber works, but her solo shows, like the one she's bringing to the Cape Cod Jazz Festival, are a chance to see this award-winning innovative artist in full force and full spontaneity.
What do most people like about her shows? "The comment I hear most," says the artist, "is that they love the energy, the humor and the experience of seeing an artist's mind opened right in front of them. They're also blown away by experiencing first-hand how much you can do with what looks like a very simple instrument. The words I hear most are 'energy' and 'inspiring.'
Guitar legend Steve Vai calls her the "Jimi Hendrix of the harp." The New York Times credits her with "reshaping the serenely Olympian harp into a jazz instrument." The Austin-American calls her "Dazzling." She's fronted the Boston Pops as a soloist, opened for Ray Charles at Tanglewood, toured with guitar legend Steve Vai, run her one-woman show at the Edinburgh Fringe, starred in her own PBS music special and jammed with legends like Bobbie McFerrin, Steven Tyler and "Classical Gas" legend Mason Williams.
Her solo appearance at the Cape Cod Jazz Festival is a rare chance to see the master of an instrument she invented, up-close and personal - just hands, harp, looper-pedal, voice. An evening surrounded by jazz, under the stars, overlooking Pleasant Bay.
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