Henry's Music page

Last updated 2 April 2007

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Harp Stuff

I am a harpist, and among some of my harp activies are helping to plan the 1994 American Harp Society Conference. You can see the tentative schedule to see what concerts and seminars are planned.
I also do random gigs such as weddings, luncheons, parties, and special events. Here is a photo of Jazz harpist Deborah Henson-Conant on the cymbals as I accompany her on her harp, taken at the 1993 Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony. Also, from the Dirty Linen tour schedules come a listing of Deborah's upcoming concert dates. To see the recent winners of the Ig Nobel Prizes, check out the Mini-Journal of Irreproducible Results.
There is also a harp mailing list, which I maintain, of harpists, harpers, harp builders and harp enthusiasts from all around the world. To subscribe to the mailing list, send email to harp-request@mit.edu. Here is some information from the harp mailing list.

I play the guitar, with a particular interest in fingerpicking folk music (Christine Lavin - tour schedule, Megon McDonogh - tour schedule, Suzanne Vega , Paul Simon , James Taylor, Sara Hickman). I've found some pretty decent music books from some of theses artists, but I have also transcribed some of their songs, since I can't memorize their stuff off the recordings without having them down on paper.

If anyone out there would like to sing in a folk duo, let me know! I'd love to do some stuff of John & Mary (John Lombardo and Mary Ramsey from 10,000 Maniacs) - check out their stuff!!

Here's some acoustic music info I find pretty neat:

Acoustic Music Information, including tour and venue schedules.
Folk Song Database
Dirty Linen Concert Listings
Folk Concerts in New England

Violin Stuff

Whatever happened to the violinists mailing list? Anyway, I do some violin/viola gigs every once in a while also, from shows to chamber music to orchestras. One thing that would be fun is to serenade somebody, but no one has hired me for that yet (nor have I mustered the courage to do that on my own!).