How to Host a House Concert with Crowding 50
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If you love live music, enjoy entertaining friends in your home, and know 20-30 folks you'd like to share a unique, intimate musical experience with, it's right up your alley.

A house concert is exactly what it sounds like - a concert in your house...or your friend's house or your co-worker's home or the community room at your sister's condo or your uncle's deck or your neighbor's backyard...

All that's required is a space that can hold 20+ people, a desire to experience live music in an intimate, personal, comfortable environment, and some friends/relatives/co-workers who share that desire and will come to the show! Crowding 50 brings all the necessary sound equipment needed. "Admission" is usually a suggested donation and how everything else works is up to you. Serve wine and cheese, beer and cheetos, kool-aid and cookies, water with ice...or make it a BYOB or pot luck. People can sit in chairs, on couches, on the floor, on blankets in the yard...it's your party and you can throw it however you want.
  
How it Works
  • Work with the Crowding 50 to schedule a date and time.
  • Promote the event to family, friends, neighbors and co-workers.
  • Ask attendees to donate a set amount ($10-$15 per person), all of which goes to the artist.
  • Also ask attendees to bring a finger-food, pot-luck or drinks.
  • Set up the performance room to seat the largest number of people you can. Use folding chairs if you need to. It's a performance, not a party where people will mill around.
  • Crowding 50 provides all the sound/PA equipment needed.
  • Set aside a place where Crowding 50 can display their CDs and other merchandise they brought to sell.
  • Set aside some time before the show for the artists to meet attendees and take photographs.
  • Crowding 50 will perform two 1 hour shows with 30 minute break in-between.
  • Encourage the attendees to buy a CD and have it signed by Crowding 50.
  • The host usually feeds Crowding 50 a meal and keeps a fresh pot of coffee going.
Remember: It's a performance. The audience and the performers are close together. There is no TV and should be no conversations during the performance. Picture-taking is encouraged, audio recording is not. Video recording may be allowed with advance approval from Crowding 50.

Living room too small? One home we know of has a 12 by 20 foot room where 35 people sit.

For booking or more info contact: Bronson Herrmuth
615-739-2555
nsherrmuth@yahoo.com

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