The San Francisco Chronicle ran a nice feature last week on the burgeoning house concert scene. Pictured here is renowned bassist and Grammy Award nominee Michael Manring, performing solo in Larkspur, CA, at a recent Acoustic Vortex House Concert Series show. [Photo courtesy Adam Lau / The Chronicle.]

Here is a link to the whole article, which also spotlights The Rose Street House Of Music and the Celebrating Songwriters Series at The Left Coast Cyclery, both in Berkeley, as well as commentary by Daniel Patrick and Erma Murphy of Murphy Productions in Marin County.

House concerts really are the wave of the present. You, too, compadre, can host a house concert. Just think of it as an easy. casual party with a concert in the middle. It's really no more complicated than that. And you'd be astonished at who would be thrilled to come play for you and your friends. Truly.

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