House concert

[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.

[4][8] In fact, calling it a donation may prevent zoning issues that a host is operating a business such as a cabaret illegally or without a license.

[4] Since at least the 1970s, however, extension cords, mult boxes, and other equipment innovations have enabled such performers to hook into a sound system, either inside or outside a house.

[4][5][6][8][10][11] In "a small setting as a house concert, [a singer] fills the air with her voice and [a musician] with his guitar.

"[8] The Wyldwood Shows, in Austin, Texas, can accommodate 200 people in a "lush backyard setting for what amounts to a near festival-like atmosphere.

"[10] One may also wish to host a home concert because it makes one happy, or "to give exposure to some incredible musicians whose talents [they] truly believe in and wish to help promote.

I just want to sing, and if these kids are any indication, I have a sneaking suspicion that they just want to listen.Folk music singer-songwriter Carrie Elkin says of house concerts: ... they are the bread and butter of our existence because so many of the Cactus Cafe type venues have closed.

[16]In the Seoul, South Korea, "The House Concert" series, the audience sits directly on the wooden floor along with the musicians so they can feel the vibration of the instruments, providing an even more intimate and "goose-bump" inspiring connection to the music and the performers.

[11] Only in the 17th century did it come to mean either secular or religious music,[11] and only in the time of Beethoven and later were halls built specifically for public concerts.

In Great Britain and Europe, and especially in America, a wealthy person's home was not considered complete without a pipe organ.

Members of the upper-class families, such as the Vanderbilts, Carnegies, Mellons, and Schwab had house concerts regularly for their friends to hear a performance by a noted artist on their pipe organ.

Dependent on the taste of the host, these house concerts generally included very little "legitimate" organ music, and consisted mainly of arrangements of popular tunes, operatic overtures, and transcriptions of orchestral works.

[citation needed] On December 6, 1897, Norwegian romantic composer Edvard Grieg and his wife Nina Grieg, a lyric soprano, performed some of his music at a private concert at Windsor Castle for Queen Victoria and her court; she later hosted Pablo Casals and the Carl Rosa company.

In the 1930s Harlem, people rented out "buffet flats" (an apartment room set aside for travellers or shows) for blues concerts or risque performances.

[22] At a particularly "open house" of a sex show, Ruby Smith said, "People used to pay good just to go in there and see him do his act."(sic.)

[23] DJ Kool Herc is credited with helping to start hip hop and rap music at a house concert at an apartment building in the South Bronx.

[24][25] On August 11, 1973, DJ Kool Herc was a Dee Jay and Emcee at a party in the recreation room of 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx adjacent to the Cross-Bronx Expressway.

... [This] helped lay the foundation for a cultural revolution.Basement shows are common within the North American punk rock scene.

That term may have its origin from a Chicago nightclub called The Warehouse which existed from 1977 to 1982, and which was patronized primarily by gay black and Latino men.

[30] Another South-Side Chicago DJ, Leonard "Remix" Rroy, in self-published statements, claims he put such a sign in a tavern window because it was where he played music that one might find in one's home or house; in his case, it referred to his mother's soul and disco records, which he worked into his sets.

House concerts are now held across the United States, especially California, Texas, Brooklyn, New York, and Boston, Massachusetts.

A "test performance" may be as simple as a house concert in front of friends or a more formal public program.