The Gift CD by Deborah Henson-Conant: Christmas Harp CDs

Deborah Henson-Conant presents fantasies on 15 Christmas carols from around the world, which she has embellished and enhanced in her own unique jazz style to create works of art, or “gifts.” Includes carols from Catalonia, England, Scotland, Wales, Russia, France, Sicily, America, Czechoslovakia, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Germany, and the Middle East.

Includes:

Joy to the World / El Nino Jesus
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
We Three Kings
Angels We Have Heard on High
Stille Nacht (Silent Night)
Carol of the Bells, Deck the Halls
What Child is This? (Greensleeves)
Un Flambeau, Jeannette Isabella (Bring a Torch, Jeannette Isabella)
Slawa / Coventry Carol
O Tannenbaum (O Christmas Tree)
Ain't That a'Rockin'?
Pagk A-Tao
Fum Fum Fum

Deborah Henson-Conant is also known as the "wild woman of the harp." She's changing the way the world sees this ancient instrument. Deborah describes her music as "cross-genre": jazz-pop-comedy-folk-blues-flamenco-Celtic. She is as much of an entertainer as a musician. She performs in symphony halls with major orchestras and plays intimate shows in jazz clubs and theaters internationally. She sings, plays electric harp, "tells tall tales with the ease of a stand-up comic," (Plain Dealer, Cleveland).

Deborah has toured with the Boston Pops, opened for Ray Charles at Tanglewood, performed her one-woman show from Budapest to Boston, starred in the PBS special "Celtic Harpestry," and has been featured on NBC, CBS, CNN, NPR, and hosted television shows for BET and BBC Affiliates. Charlies Rose, Lou Rawls, Joan Rivers, Studs Terkel, Scott Simon, Billy Taylor and Susan Stamberg have interviewed her.