We have been supporters of LIVE music ever since high school, but we’ve both often found the normal venues to be less than ideal for actually LISTENING to music. We started a local Facebook group called Listen Up! House Concerts that is geared toward a few simple objectives. 1) Provide a forum for like-minded property owners who are interested in hosting house concerts. 2) Provide an avenue for music lovers who are looking for opportunities to attend house concerts. 3) Provide an avenue for musicians looking for a more intimate experience with smaller audiences who are actually there to listen! In addition to that Facebook group, we invested time, energy, and money into redoing the side yard at our house so that it could be a cool space for shows and we refer to it as The P-Court Patio. We welcome others to promote their house concerts through Listen Up! The artists who have played at our place so far have LOVED the experience. We've hosted The Riverside, Max Minardi, Bogg, Kyle Williams, Hannah Jane Kile, Pat Hull, Mawd, Tom Freund, Berkley Hart, Savannah King, Sunday Iris, The Defcats, and The Winterlings. We do these concerts completely out of our love and respect for those who have the gift of music and are willing to share it with the world. The shows are donation based (we typically suggest a $15/person minimum) and all of the donations go straight to the artists.
