house concerts and 21st century touring

http://far-west.org/showcases.html

Far-west is one of my favorite conferences, and this year it will take place in Irvine, California, Nov. 6-8. There will be other opportunities to showcase, but the deadline to submit for the “premier showcases” is June 30th.

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Here are some of the many things we’re doing to help you succeed.

The obvious:

1. Inspiring and educating new hosts
2. Organizing their info so you can find opportunities that match your needs. Have you tried the advanced search yet? (At the bottom of the linked page. )
3. Providing tools for you to create your own opportunities… videos and how-to articles you can share with your fans.

The not so obvious:

1. Constantly raising the bar for talent. We turn away a lot of artists who are not ready. This means that CIYH artists have a reputation for quality & respectfulness, and that hosts are less likely to get overwhelmed by artist inquiries.
2. Providing tools that help hosts succeed. Calendars, flyers, videos, and how-to articles to help them build an audience for their house concerts. When they succeed, you succeed. Here’s our new how-to video page.
3. Providing opportunities for music fans to discover your music. We are the number one destination for house concert information, and we get different types of inquiries from people who want to hire talent. Check out the new video page.

The future:

1. We’re collecting “artist reviews” from hosts so that we can add “recommendations” to your artist profile. Wouldn’t that give a host great piece of mind to book you if they saw that you’ve been recommended by several CIYH hosts? We thinks so. Learn more about this.
2. In the next few months, we’ll also start collecting “host reviews,” so that our artists can recommend hosts who’ve done a fine job, and provide additional piece of mind for artists when they book recommended house concerts. I think this is especially important for female acts, who are sometimes uncomfortable staying with hosts they don’t know.

Who’s having success?

We get a steady stream of testimonials… here are a few.

Need to join, upgrade, or renew?

Share this with artists you love.

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Here’s a timely and lovely tune, from one of the most successful songwriters of CIYH, Craig Bickhardt, and Jack Sundrud. I’ve written a Father’s Day tune too… it wasn’t nearly this good. Songwriters… pay attention. - this is how you twist an overused phrase or title.

Enjoy!

Learn more about Craig Bickhardt, and email him if you’d like to have a major hit (3 #1 hits, 9 in the top 10) songwriter knock your friends out in your living room.

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