house concerts and 21st century touring

2012-2015 Michigan Arts & Humanities Touring Directory Application

Who should Apply:

Michigan residents only, both individuals and groups — Visual artists, teaching artists, gallery and museum exhibitors, storytellers
and historical re-enactors, authors and poets, tradition bearers and folk artists

Deadline for applications: December 1, 2011

Learn more or apply online: www.michiganhumanities.org

Questions: 517-372-7770 or email them at contact@mihumanities.org

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May is house concert month.

And this year’s theme is DinnerAndSong.

Let’s make this the month you inspire a fan to host a DinnerAndSong. Make this the month that you get some pictures of yourself enjoying this environment, so that you can share the concept/opportunity in a vivid way to your fans.

Remember, you don’t need that much lead time to set one up. The host doesn’t need a lot of space (actually, smaller is cooler) or a big budget for the meal. Chinese take-out and some tunes is all you need to impress some newbies about the world of house concerts.

DinnerAndSong is easy! Share your profile on Facebook, and in an email to your fans. Take some chances. Meet some new people. Invest in your future - our future - because everyone of my fans who hosts a DinnerAndSong has the potential to someday host you.

That’s what we are doing - creating a community of superfans - the ones who do more than download your mp3s. The ones who make you part of their family.

Don’t you love that?

May is house concert month. Scratch that. DinnerAndSong month.
Share your profile on Facebook! How?

• Visit DinnerAndSong.com,
• find your profile,
• open up the full page, which looks like this. http://www.dinnerandsong.com/artist/fransnyder.html

Then copy the link into your status on Facebook.

Remind everybody that you are fun to hang out with as well as to listen to.

Well aren’t you?

Your fan,

Fran Snyder
CIYH, DinnerAndSong, and ListeningRoomNetwork.

PS - we encourage all new hosts to visit the avails pages. This is where your “pitches” show up. Login and make sure you are using this to promote the most important gaps in your schedule.

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Assets for Artists

I’d like to see some angels fund these kinds of programs nationwide.

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