House concert

A house concert or home concert is a musical concert or performance art that is presented in someone's home or apartment, or a nearby small private space such as a barn, apartment rec room, lawn, or backyard.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][excessive citations]

Logistics considerations of holding a concert in a contemporary home include audience capacity, collecting cash or donations, whether the proceeds will be split with the host, marketing and whether to publicize the venue, the equipment or sound system, to provide refreshments or to hold a potluck, whether to have one show or present a series, and the choice of musicians.

Common in the historical past, but now unusual in the age of large concert arenas, a house concert is almost invariably described as an "intimate" experience.[4][5][6][8][9][10][11] A true house concert needs to be distinguished from a smaller musical ensemble, recital at a high school, or modern chamber music concert, which may sometimes be called a "house show" or "house concert".[12]

  1. ^ "VIDEO: House concert in Royal Oak," Daily Tribune, June 29, 2010. Found at Oakland Daily Tribune website. Accessed July 20, 2010.
  2. ^ "Set Your Ass in the Grass 4th of July House Concert," Bozeman Daily Chronicle, July 2, 2010. Found at Bozeman Daily Chronicle. Accessed July 20, 2010.
  3. ^ Jenny Williams, "Marian Call House Concert, or The Importance of Music in Our Lives," By June 27, 2010, Wired "Geekdad" (blog). Found at Wired website. Accessed July 20, 2010.
  4. ^ a b Ben Salmon, "Sisters musician plays show: Dennis McGregor plans solo house concert," The Bulletin (Bend, Oregon), June 25. 2010. Found at The Bend Bulletin website. Accessed July 20, 2010.
  5. ^ a b "Scots playing in Merville" (Photo caption: "Findlay Napier and Gillian Frame will perform July 18 at a Merville house concert as well as offering guitar and fiddle workshops"), Comox Valley Record (Comox Valley, British Columbia), July 8, 2010. Found at Comox Valley Record website[permanent dead link]. Accessed July 20, 2010.
  6. ^ a b William Demarest, "From Alaska to New City: Folk Singer Brings Haunting Tunes to 'The Borderline': Local folk music club hosts Kray Van Kirk for intimate concert." New City Patch (blog), July 15, 2010. Found at New City Patch website Archived July 15, 2011, at the Wayback Machine. Accessed July 20, 2010.
  7. ^ House concerts website About Us page. Accessed July 21, 2010.
  8. ^ a b Jim Kavanagh, "Intimate shows bring down the house", CNN, June 10, 2010. Found at CNN website. Accessed July 21, 2010.
  9. ^ a b Andrew McGinn, "Freedom Farm Acoustic Concert season opens: The trend of 'house concerts' — it's exactly what it sounds like — has come to the area," Springfield News-Sun, April 16, 2010. Three photos by Marshall Gorby; captions: (1) "Gary Haber stands in front of the century-old livestock barn he turned into a concert venue. (2) "John Batdorf, a Springfield native who went on to record for Atlantic as one-half of the early '70s duo Batdorf and Rodney, will return to the area to play an intimate house concert, part of a growing trend of live shows." (3) "Gary Haber, owner of Freedom Farm just outside of West Liberty, in his "concert hall," the loft of a century-old barn." Found at Springfield News-Sun website. Accessed July 21, 2010.
  10. ^ Cite error: The named reference Russ and Julie was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  11. ^ John H. Baron, Intimate music: a history of the idea of chamber music, p. 1. (Pendragon Press, 1998) ISBN 978-1-57647-100-5. Found at Google Books. Accessed July 21, 2010.
  12. ^ See, e..g, "Annual Recital: Valley Stream music school celebrates the greats," Long Island Herald, July 14, 2010. Found at Long Island Herald website. Accessed July 20, 2010.

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