Clarification that it was a mini-tour, not a tour of mini-houses! Truly, the houses we played were just perfect fits for a house concert, even though they were all completely different settings -- just proving that there is not right or wrong setting to host a house concert. Sometimes people move the furniture out of a living room and pile in criss-cross-apple-sauce or bring in folding chairs. Sometimes the show is in a backyard, where everyone brings their own lawn chair. Sometimes people bring their own floats for a poolside show! Sometimes the show is in a "great room" where introverts can hide in the kitchen, and everyone else scatters about on furniture, folding chairs, and the floor.
Steve and I have had a blast doing these house concert tours, mostly because of the intimacy and the people we meet. There's always time for Q&A -- for us, that generally centers around the banjo and the saw, though I get the occasional accordion lesson in their too. One of our shows went from house concert to singalong, with the host bringing out his own guitar, campfire style!
It was a blast. Thank you to the brave hosts who had never hosted before, but who absolutely nailed it. Host more of them -- I'd come as a guest.
Composer, arranger and writer Brigid Kaelin has played accordion, musical saw and sung with musical heroes from Cowboy Jack Clement to Elvis Costello and has performed on the BBC, A Prairie Home Companion, Nashville Star and more. She plays more than ten instruments, tours Europe at least once a year, yet remains a staple in the Louisville music scene. Brigid is the co-host of the 30-year-old radio variety show Kentucky Homefront and musical directs Ben Sollee's new podcast, KENTUCKY USA. As a writer, she's had bylines in Salon.com, Louisville Magazine, Velocity, Insider Louisville, LEO, ScaryMommy. She authors The Red Accordion Diaries, where she overshares her adventures in travel, whiskey, and motherhood. Louisville, Kentucky, is home ... for now.
Brigid is also the mother of 7-yr-old actor, Graham Caldwell, who plays the son of Mark Ruffalo and Anne Hathaway in Dark Waters and whose iMDb page is growing.
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