From Electric Harpist Deborah Henson-Conant

Dear Utah Symphony Friends –

I’m here in the Salt Lake City airport –  just passing through this time — but knowing I’ll be back at the end of the month for my performance with the Utah Symphony at Deer Valley Resort!  I keep wanting to go up to everyone in the airport and tell them to come to the show!  I love to perform, I love working with great musicians, and I’m so excited about the show we’re performing August 1st.  I’ve never been on a program that paired me with the 1812 Overture, but I have a few ideas of my own about how to live up to that exciting challenge!

My harp is snug in the hold of the plane as I write this.  After years of struggling to tour with a 6-foot concert harp, I feel pretty smug checking my custom-built carbon-fibre electric harp onto the plane!   If harps were cars, then I guess this harp would be the Harley-Davidson of the harp world.  It even has flames on it!  The man who painted it specializes in airbrushing trucks and motorcycles … and now …. electric harps!

I’m so looking forward to my concert with maestro David Lockington and your wonderful symphony!  David and I have a long history together and share a love of both great music and great entertainment.  This is our first chance to work together since our 2006 Grammy-Nominated project, “Invention & Alchemy,”  a huge project that later went on to become a music special on PBS.  If you missed it on PBS, you can see clips of it on YouTube — just go to my website – HipHarp.com – and click on the YouTube icon on the home page to get a taste of what you can expect from us on the stage.  Then come join us August 1st at Deer Valley Resort when the 1812 Overture meets “Hip Harp!”

See you there!
Deborah Henson-Conant (HipHarp.com)