Press Release for Golden Cage Music, September, 2001.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Hip Harpist’s Frog Princess
Presented at
Children’s Humanities Festival
October 6, 2001

Deborah Henson-Conant plays the harp – the solid-body electric strap-on harp - and she’ll be joining The Fulcrum Point New Music Ensemble at this year’s Chicago Humanities Festival to present her original composition and ‘amphibious allegory’: The Frog Princess. Families will learn what happens AFTER “happily ever after” as Amphibia (daughter of the Frog Prince) takes over the kingdom of Lilypadia and learns to embrace her own inner frog (for more on The Frog Princess see attached information sheet or visit our website, http://www.hipharp.com/).

As an instrumentalist, Henson-Conant has been compared to Chuck Berry, Jimi Hendrix and Elvis. Her voice has been compared to Carly Simon and Joan Baez. Her onstage persona has been described as “a combination of Leonard Bernstein, Steven Tyler and Xena, the Warrior Princess” (Boston Globe). For this performance, Henson-Conant will feature Lyon & Healy’s prototype solid body electric harp (for more information, see the attached document ‘about the harp.’)

The Fulcrum Point New Music Ensemble, under the direction of Stephen Burns, is well known in Chicago for its “full throttle musical energy” (The Chicago Tribune). Burns and
Henson-Conant have collaborated on bringing The Frog Princess to Chicago – combining Henson-Conant’s modern fable with the ensemble’s avant-garde energy and unique instrumentation.