house concerts and 21st century touring

What is a House Concert?

It’s an invitation-only concert in someone’s home, presented by a host who does not profit from the event.

Also, house concerts are usually…

held indoors and on weekends
attended by 20-50 people
paid for by a $10-20 donation per guest (for the performer)
known to include light snacks, beverages or a pot-luck dinner
attended by the host’s friends, neighbors, co-workers, and maybe a few fans of the artist Continue Reading »

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Press Release
November 17, 2007

Singer-songwriter creates concertsinyourhome.com, a “house concert” network for touring musicians

Fran Snyder, a Lawrence, KS artist with 500,000 miles of touring experience, has decided that house concerts could be the answer for struggling artists worldwide. The question: How can small acts find rooms where people listen, and actually buy CDs?

These acts, unless they are famous, often find themselves playing in bars and coffeehouses where audiences routinely ignore music - no matter how good it is. Snyder believes music is so ubiquitous these days, that people need a new or unique experience to capture their attention. Continue Reading »

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Why? To get more people to visit your website!

Here’s an easy, step-by-step way to build (or have someone build) a house concert page on your website. It’s simply a very effective tool to communicate with your fans and to increase your chances of turning up in a google or yahoo search. These instructions will work for house concert presenters as well, but you’ll want to change the sample text below to fit your needs.

1. Create a special page on your website with “house_concert” in the URL. For example, http://fransnyder.com/house_concert.html. If you can’t add “house concerts” to your menu bar, remember to link to it from somewhere in your website - like your shows/tour/news pages.

2. Add content about house concerts on the page. For example: Continue Reading »

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