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About me: Artists! Here's a great tool to promote house concerts to your fans. Link or embed this in your myspace, facebook, or emails, and help us create hundreds of new opportunities for artists.
Concertsinyourhome.com is the most comprehensive and current source of house concert information on the web.
House concerts are intimate music performances, usually solo or duo acts, performing in someone's living room. Hosts promote the shows to their friends, co-workers, and neighbors, and collect a $8-15 donation per guest. The shows are usually unplugged or with a very small p.a. system, and attended by 20-40 people.
These concerts can be very rewarding for performers who are comfortable talking with their audience, and who have a bit of personality to go with their great songs and performances. House concert hosts create great and memorable experiences for their friends and community.
Interested artists should visit the site and take time to appreciate all the helpful and free information. To create an artist profile, we charge a modest yearly fee, most of which is used to fund a professional promotion campaign. For house concert hosts, our services are free. List your house concert series for free, and send us your events to have them listed on your state's calendar.
We hope to hear from you.
--Fran
Check out these great house concert performances - is there one you'd like to add?
1. Artists who can perform unplugged or close to it, for 75-90 minutes. We are especially interested in those willing to work their fanbase to help expand the house concert market.
2. Music fans (and artists) who would like to host a concert in their home.
3. Music and arts organizations that would like to support our efforts.
4. Music-lovers who are interested in attending house concerts, wherever they might be.
Why play in someone's living room instead of a club? House concert presenters develop a reputation for top-notch performances in a very intimate setting. In doing so, they often develop some degree of a built-in audience. For an artist playing in a new market (town), that audience usually provides much better results than trying to draw a significant crowd to a coffeehouse or a club. It's a great way to break into a market, and to start developing a fanbase that might eventually allow you to have a profitable show in a more traditional venue. Many artists claim that without house concerts, they would actually play fewer clubs - because they wouldn't be able to tour.
Thanks for reaching out! Keep up the wonderful work bringing music to all... I'd love to connect about bringing The Simple Things into your network of artists!
Hi Fran (o: - the 2008-2009 River Road House Concerts season schedule is now set, and the hosts are getting REAL excited about the line-up! Should probably take a little vacation before the fall rolls around. How about you?
Thanks for all of your help and expertise re all things house concerts!
Fran, I'm honored that you included my videos in your blog. Great site BTW. It seems to me that the only thing left for me in this struggle is to laugh and poke fun at it all. There's nothing more entertaining than what most musicians go through trying to entertain. : ) Thanks again.
Hi Fran, thanks so much for your message - glad you're enjoying the music. We did loads of house concerts last year and have a few coming up. Thanks for spreading the word about house concerts - it's the future of live music :)
Hey Fran! Thank you SO much for extending the online friendship! I think what you're doing is such a fantastic service to everyone and I would love to be part of it!! All best wishes to you! - Jackie Hey--silly P.S.--I'm a Gemini, too! ;-)
Thanks for finding me! Would love to do house parties! Think it's a great opportunity to share your music with others and to do it so intimately! ^_^ Sarah
I just did a house concert in NJ this past weekend at Lois & Gregs House Concert Series(on the host list at CIYH), what wonderful host and Great Crowd!!
Also wanted to let you know I am doing an hour long radio show tomorrow April 16th 8pm(EST) featuring songs & info from my upcoming release. 91.9FM WNTI out of Hackettstown, NJ or via web at www.wnti.org
I really enjoyed meeting you in Memphis. I am looking forward to joining. Thanks so much for the invite, and especially for all you are doing to help promote great independent music! ~Steph
Hi Fran, Thanks for the add request... and for all you do to help those of us who like to host house concerts. One of these days, I'm going to have to get one of those t-shirts. Best, Arlene
Fran, it was so great to meet you at Folk Alliance and an honor to share the "stage" with you. Thank you for all that you're doing and for giving me an opportunity to showcase.
