12/18/2025
Hello, TTHC supporters! This has been a wild year of house concerts and I want to thank you all who have participated. I do this myself (and with the amazing Melissa Jack who understands the ticketing site and is awesome with graphics, etc), it is not a money maker, just the opposite, and was never intended to be. Some people don't understand that. All proceeds go to the musicians minus 10%. I do not have a website, just fb and a ticketing website. Communications to everyone is getting more and more difficult as 1) facebook's algorithms prevent many of you from seeing my concert posts or some just don't pay attention and 2) less than 5% even open the emails that go out to everyone who has ever bought a ticket. I do not abuse that privilege, using it once or twice a month maximum about upcoming concerts or a rare date change. Even then people unsubscribe, as well. So what is the solution? I don't have the time to create or manage an effective website that would do everything - calendar, band info, images, ticket purchasing and a method of contacting me. Artwork is my income now and the term "starving artist" didn't come from nowhere! I'm not starving by any means but unless you're a major player it just gets you buy after supplies and fees. Only telling you this because some will say "But websites are cheap and easy." No, not with the features it would need, not look like a rookie put it together and keep up with pix, bios, calendar, tickets and other things that draw you in.
So, if you have any ideas, or are good at that kind of work, have the time and commitment to keep it up to date, in line with BMI, Folk Alliance legalities, etc. I'd swap with you for free tickets to the shows. There are usually 15 to 18 a year. At an average cost of $25 per, 2 tix per show, that's about $750 for 15 shows. Not much to offer. Open to suggestions.
PS. I've seen others do gofundme's for house concerts and I just don't feel thats appropriate for something that was my choice to start and to continue. I do not want to be a 5013c which could get me sponsors who could write off their donations. I have researched it a few times, talked to others who regret doing it and am not interested in even discussing that. (Sure, who wouldn't love a wealthy sponsor who doesn't want the writeoff??) I'm trying to simplify, not make my senior life more complicated!
Thanks for reading this novelette. 🙂 (Feel free to private message me instead.)
