House Concerts
Friday, May 21st, 2010
In the last 2 weeks I’ve been to two house concerts here in NYC. Perhaps I should call them “Apartment Concerts”, but I’m seeing a real trend here in people getting back to the idea of pure inspirational music listening.
I love this concept and I love this trend in music. I’ve felt for far too long now that audiences are slowly losing the ability to simply sit and listen to music and enjoy it for what it is. Instead, more and more hoopla seems to be needed to stimulate the listener. I enjoyed the novelty of Pink this last year at the Grammys singing upside-down while hanging from a trapeze, but c’mon now really…
I fear that the real basic problem here lately has been that there is a diminishing quality of music to listen to and so artists have to add additional value to their live acts in order to hold their audiences who have grown to expect light shows, ridiculous costumes, gargantuan sets and fireworks to stay interested.
