Live Shows

 

Don’t see a show in your area?

We’re constantly building out new tours and love to meet new fans. The best way to get us to your area is by hosting a house show! Not sure how to do that? Keep reading to learn more.

  • House concerts are a win-win situation. YOU get to be the coolest friend your friends know with fairly little effort on your part, and we get to share our music with a new audience, which continues to be a peak experience for us.

  • Transforming a living room, downstairs den, or backyard into a mini theater with folding chairs (may involve moving a sofa around, bumping a coffee table to another room, borrowing the chairs if you don’t have them, asking people to bring their own chair) in order to create a listening room environment. If you know of 20 to 50 friends (the only limit is your own space & tolerance for groups beyond a certain size) who would enjoy an intimate 60-90 minute set of music, and who wouldn’t mind contributing a donation of $14-40 bucks a head in the bucket (or venmo) for your artists, then just invite them the same way you would if hosting a party.  If you want to make it more official, I’m happy to create a flyer, or Eventbrite page to share.

    Many hosts encourage pot luck, while others put out a spread themselves, or tell your friends to eat before.  BYOB is an option, too.  Food & mingling can take place for an hour or so, and music will start promptly at a reasonable hour, like 7pm or 8:30, but usually no later.  Shows can be private (your contacts only) or public (and I would promote, as well)- this is your call.

    There’s not a firm and fast rule that these must happen on a weekend, but Friday & Saturday eves or Sunday afternoons tend to be the most convenient times for all parties involved.  I’m certainly open to the idea of weeknights for occasions when it makes more sense.

    Once everyone is seated, it’s best to make the necessary house keeping announcements – restroom locale, no talking during the show, cell phone and noise makers silenced, directions to where the CDs & merchandise are located, reminder to contribute to the artist, etc.

  • These shows are seriously the best.  We bring all our own gear, a donation system, some nice lighting, and only good vibes. Watch here for proof: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8DepxyK0mc

    I recently asked a friend for some advice on finding house concert hosts and he said, “There are 142million homes in the U.S. Get busy!” - let’s start chipping away!

    If you’re interested, reach out to me at maya@mayaelisemusic.com, and we can get a dialogue going on how to put on your very own House Concert!