LV/Kelso Community Concerts 2011-2012 Season presents Deborah Henson-Conant | Arts & Culture

LONGVIEW, Wash. -- She’s a one-woman, blues-flamenco-Celtic-funk-folk-jazz-playing dynamo. She solos like a rock guitarist. She tells tall tales with the timing of a stand-up comic. She’s an irrepressible, lyrical spirit. But wait till you see that harp.

Deborah Henson-Conant is a Grammy-nominated artist who sings and plays a 36-string custom-built electric harness harp in styles ranging from full-out bluesy to heart-wrenching ballad and she'll be playing from 7:30-9:30 p.m. Feb. 23 at the Columbia Theatre for the Performing Arts in the latest series for the Longview/Kelso Community Concerts. She has toured with the Boston Pops, starred in a PBS special, lectured at the Paris Conservatory and played at the Kennedy Center. Henson-Conant has been featured on NBC, CBS, CNN and NPR.

Her albums range from Latin jazz to Celtic, blues, folk-pop and spoken word. But on stage, she’s electric, bringing vibrant passion to a powerful musical journey, taking audiences along for the ride. See her once and you’ll never view or hear a harp the same way again.

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