California
(From North to South)
Greenberg House Concerts: The focus is on Celtic and English music at this series. This house concert in Berkeley has been going on for over 11 years.
San Francisco HouseConcerts: Music from traditional folk to alternative. Their website is also a great source for other house concert and small venue music in the Bay Area.
Brask House Concerts: House concerts in San Jose and at the Mission Coffee Roasting Company in Fremont for almost 10 years. The Brasks also commit a great deal of time to charity fund raising focused around music.
Trade Wind Music: A long running series hosted by Bev Barnett and Greg Newlon, singers and songwriters in there own right. These two are a strong foundation in San Jose music and leaders of the Far-West Folk Alliance.
The Barn: Yes, this really is a concert in a barn. Absolutely the best place in Gilroy for live roots music.
Russ & Julie's House Concerts: Having just celebrated their 10th anniversary hosting house concerts, Russ & Julie’s series in Oak Park is home to many of Southern California’s favorite folk artists. Through their personal work and the Far-West Folk Alliance they have served as trusted mentors to the California house concert community.
Concerts At The Bodie House: In Agoura Hills, this series has become a mainstay of what acoustic music is all about. Renée Bodie is an active leader of the Far-West Folk Alliance.
Noble House Concerts: The only bastion of acoustic music known to exist in Van Nuys, Fred’s hometown. This is what house concerts are all about. Even if you have not heard of an artist playing here, just go, you will not be sorry.
The Coffee Gallery Backstage: Live folk and Americana music 3-5 nights a week in Altadena. The Golden Bear is gone. The Ice House is all comedy. The Troubadour has forgotten what acoustic music is. So all LA has now is this, The Boulevard and McCabe’s.
Living Tradition: A non-profit organization working to support and preserve traditional music and dance. Concerts on the 3rd Saturday of each month at the Anaheim Downtown Community Center.
Dark-Thirty House Concerts: In Lakeside, California; these house concerts are famous for the included dinner and dessert. Also called “Jimmy Duke’s", you may find an artist booked here that never plays house concerts! Dark-Thirty is so highly regarded that John Stewart and others have recorded full albums here.
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SLOFolks:
The San Luis Obispo Folk Music Society featuring indoor and outdoor folk music concerts in San Luis Obispo, Morro Bay, Atascadero and Paso Robles year-round. Always worth seeing!
Green Acres Lavender Farm:
The only other regularly scheduled house concert on the Central Coast. Just a few miles down the road from us on the southwest side of Atascadero. Good music, cooking classes in the Spring and enough fresh local lavender to soothe to the senses.
The Cambria Hoot:
Featuring live shows in San Luis Obispo and Morro Bay. Singer/songwriters of the highest order always. Sage 7 Productions:
Our friend Judith Cohen knows how to create great musical events on the Central Coast. The music is always awesome, but the party is even better.
Last Stage West:
Roadhouse dinning and live music on Highway 41, halfway between Morro Bay and Atascadero.
Painted Sky Studios:
Concerts in a world-class recording studio in Cambria. Diverse sounds worth the drive.
Mat's Music:
Concerts, instruction and instruments in Paso Robles.
KCBX Public Radio:
The best music from Carpinteria to Paso Robles. Music of the World’s People with Jim Dee, Sundays 9:00 to 11:00 PM; Pickin' Up the Tempo with Little Robby Kimball, Tuesdays 8:00 to 10:00 PM; Basically Bluegrass with Glenn Horn, Thursdays 8:00 to 10:00 PM; and The Minstrel Song Show with Sonnie Brown, Saturdays 1:00 to 3:00 PM. Plus Blues, news and more all the time. Streaming on the web 24/7.
The Live Oak Music Festival:
The best 3 days of live music and camping every Father’s Day weekend near Lake Cachuma. A loving production of KCBX Public Radio.
Tree House Concerts:
Our nearest house concert neighbor to the north in Pacific Grove and really in the trees. Greg & Juliet put on the best musical house party in Monterey County.
Tales From the Tavern:
In the Santa Ynez Valley, these folks host artists that you already love or should get to know very soon. In smaller clubs, taverns and tasting rooms throughout the valley, they bring us world-class folk artists and singer/songwriters.
BlueGrass West!:
For over 16 years Peter Feldmann has been at the helm of BlueGrass West. Offering, presenting, supporting and teaching traditional American Bluegrass Music in the Santa Ynez Valley, Santa Barbara and points beyond.
Song Tree Concerts:
Like a House Concert only a little bigger in Goleta at the Unitarian Universalist Church.
Trinity Backstage Coffee House:
Live music in a real coffee house in Santa Barbara.
Otter Productions:
The best large venue music productions on the Central Coast. Artists we never thought we would see locally, just appear out of nowhere for these folks. |
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House Concerts:
This site, provided by Flowers In The Desert house concert series in Brenham/Chappell Hill, Texas is the most complete list of North American house concerts available. With links and phone numbers, you can find a house concert nearby whenever you are away from home.
A directory of over 160 house concert presenters throughout the United States. Also a directory of many established, new and upcoming artists interesting in being considered for house concert performances.
The Western Regional Chapter
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The North American Folk Music
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