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Harpist, singer, songwriter, author, cartoonist, entertainer, comedian – mix those together and you can just begin to describe Deborah Henson-Conant. Whether she’s tearing up the Edinburgh Fringe festival with her one-woman show, touring the country with the Boston Pops, opening for Ray Charles at Tanglewood, or mesmerizing a theater-full of children at the Kennedy Center, Henson-Conant, live, on stage, is indescribable. Henson-Conant rocked onto the jazz charts in the late 80’s with her three albums on the GRP label. Since then she’s established her own record label and released a dozen other albums from straight-ahead jazz to Celtic, blues, folk-pop and spoken word. She’s jammed off-stage and on with the likes of Steven Tyler, Rufus Reid, Keith Lockhart, Marvin Hamlisch and Gary Larsen (yes, that Gary Larsen). Henson-Conant premiered her compositions with the Buffalo Philharmonic, Scottish National Chamber Orchestra and the Prague Radio Orchestra. She has lectured at the Paris Conservatory, and received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Massachusetts Artists Fellowship, and “Meet the Composer.” She has been featured on NBC, CBS, and CNN, and starred in the PBS Special “Celtic Harpestry.” With her solid-state, electric blue body-harp slung around her neck while wailing on the blues, Henson-Conant gives the Troubadour Harpist a whole new image.
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