Invention and Alchemy CD by Deborah Henson-Conant: Jazz Harp CDs

Deborah Henson-Conant is the most dynamic harpist on today's harp scene. In her new DVD, Invention & Alchemy, Deborah leads you on a tour through her madcap imagination, telling the tallest of truthful tales. With her solid-body electric lever harp and her electric pedal harp, Deborah wails the blues, sways to a sweet song, and jives to flamenco.

This is the CD version (including audio but no video) of the concert. It includes almost all of the DVD concert program, presented in a slightly different order. It has the feel of an old-fashioned radio show with a full orchestra, songs, music, humor, and stories. And the harp is the hero! This CD is great to listen to during that long 77:02 minute drive. Just close your eyes (unless you're driving), and you'll be transported to the performance.

See the DVD version (listed in the "Related Items" section below) for more detailed (and fun) information about this amazing concert performance.

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The following pieces from the DVD are NOT on this CD.
Cosita Latina
The Minstrel & the Wild Harp
Nataliana

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.