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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.
Is this for you? Consider joining as an artist or as a host.
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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

My Interests

I'd like to meet:


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.
Is this you? Consider joining as an artist or as a host.
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.

My Blog

House Concerts now International -- newsletter

I'm pleased to bring you our latest newsletter - the "Reader'sDigest" of the house concert community. 8^)Here are the July highlights:11 new hosts (welcome Australia!)38 new artists,Featured: Molly's ...
Posted by on Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:51:00 GMT

Do your fans understand what a house concert is?

And how much fun it could be?youtube.com/watch?v=iC-9Xbn5SmoSend this to them...my compliments.
Posted by on Wed, 04 Jun 2008 22:13:00 GMT

How much do original artists get paid for live performances?

http://www.squidoo.com/whatartistsgetpaidHere’s an interesting survey that breaks down how much artists, duos, and bands earn according to the type of venue they play - coffeehouses, clubs, hous...
Posted by on Sun, 06 Apr 2008 20:07:00 GMT

Is this you?

by Fran Snyderhttp://concertsinyourhome.comYou never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete" -- Buckminster Fulle...
Posted by on Wed, 11 Jul 2007 22:21:00 GMT

the emotional anchors of every tour.

These are the comments I submitted for an article in Baltimore Style Magazine. Not sure how they'll turn out, but I thought it might make some nice light reading...---Of course, music in homes (castle...
Posted by on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 12:20:00 GMT

5 ways (and why) to get more house concert bookings...

There was a great artist who once said, "I joined CIYH, but haven't had the time to explore the site." --Hope Fully NotyouIn this brave new world of music, there are so many opportunities that it ca...
Posted by on Tue, 19 Jun 2007 20:57:00 GMT

Concertsinyourhome.com is 1 year old!

For Immediate Release: June 12, 2007concertsinyourhome.com reaches a few milestones in MayConcertsinyourhome.com is a one-year old website run by Lawrence, KS resident Fran Snyder. The site promotes h...
Posted by on Wed, 13 Jun 2007 23:14:00 GMT

teaching the world to listen

"I'd like to teach the world listen, in perfect harmony" Can house concerts teach people to listen to music again? I have a theory. In the seventies and eighties, the "heyday" of live music, people ac...
Posted by on Mon, 04 Dec 2006 10:07:00 GMT

even James Taylor would be ignored...

It seems that we've been systematically trained to ignore acoustic music over the past 20 years. Walk into any coffeeshop or pub on a "live music" night and you are bound to see the majority of the au...
Posted by on Fri, 29 Sep 2006 16:14:00 GMT

Concertsinyourhome.com relaunched!

Here is the latest on our main projects.1. Site re-design complete. We've spent 4 months putting lots of new features into the site. You can now log in and edit your profile anytime you like, and adju...
Posted by on Tue, 27 Jun 2006 19:24:00 GMT