PARIS — Celebration Barn Theater  will once again present the high-octane, Grammy -nominated electric harp virtuoso Deborah Henson-Conant in concert  at 8 p.m., Saturday, June 20.  Henson-Conant is also known for her wicked sense of humor, gutsy set of vocal chords and theatrical flair. 

Tickets are $14 for adults, $12 for seniors, and $8 for kids, and may be purchased online via Brown Paper Tickets at http://tinyurl.com/qj8dgdv or via telephone at 207-743-8452.

A Henson-Conant show is  intimate, inventive, spontaneous and bigger-than-life –and she pulls sounds from the 32 strings of her custom-built electric harp that you’d never expect to hear from the instrument St. Peter hands out at the Pearly Gates: Blues. Jazz. Flamenco. Distortion.

She uses a foot pedal to capture musical phrases on the fly and loop them together, building a pulse of sound and rhythms she improvises over, and tells stories of her own improbable life as she strides the stage strapped onto her harp like a musical centaur.

Poetic dissonance, movement, story and song – she pulls it all from the world’s most cutting edge harp, built for her by the CAMAC company and named after her, the “DHC-Light.”

She’s opened for Ray Charles at Tanglewood, toured with the Boston Pops as a featured soloist and with guitar legend Steve Vai as a rock harpist. Her music special “Invention & Alchemy” appeared on PBS Stations throughout the U.S. and she performs her own solo shows in theaters and concert halls around the world.

Celebration Barn is located just off Route 117 at 190 Stock Farm Road in South Paris. Live performances are offered at 8 p.m. on most Saturday evenings from June through August, with additional dates in September and October.

 Doors open at 7:30p.m. The bar –new this season– will remain open after the show for an informal meet and greet with the artist.

For more information, visit the theater’s website: www.CelebrationBarn.com.