(09-11-2012, 11:04 PM)abc890 Wrote: Hey Guys!

I don't know if this has been posted yet, but Haley has an online concert on October 16 via Stageit

http://www.stageit.com/haley_reinhart/live_from_my_living_room/13733

Quote:Stageit is a web-based platform headquartered in Hollywood, CA. The service allows musical artists to sell their live performances via webcam. Artists choose when they want to perform, for how long and how much they want to charge. Artists can receive instant feedback from their fans from both the Tip Jar feature, which allows fans to tip artists in real time, and the chat window, which permits fans viewing the performance to comment on it and make song requests. The performances are not archived or duplicated for distribution

Quote:Once a user purchases a ticket to a Stageit performance, s/he can join other audience members awaiting showtime in an online chat, which continues during the performance itself. (There is also a "private chat" option if two audience members wish to communicate separately from the main chat.) Performances on Stageit last for up to thirty minutes. At the end of that time, artists are given the option to perform an additional twenty minute encore set.

Quote:Show Description:

Join Haley as she performs songs off Listen Up! acoustically for the very first time live from her living room!

Quote:The site blends concerts—a part of the music business that’s still actually making money—with something akin to a pay-per-view version of Skype. An artist fires up a webcam and plays live for 30 minutes in an intimate setting, such as his own kitchen. The talent controls the price—usually about $5—and caps how many people can watch. “It’s like a virtual campfire,” Lowenstein says.

While most shows are just a singer with an acoustic guitar in front of a laptop, Lowenstein has signed up a few bigger names, including Jackson Browne, Indigo Girls, and Jason Mraz. Stageit handles billing, ensures that there’s enough bandwidth, and includes a chat feature so fans can ask questions or request songs. There’s a “tip jar” so listeners can give more money if they want, and Stageit takes 40 percent of sales (yes, including the tips, which Lowenstein says account for nearly half of Stageit’s revenue). While many people have come to expect music to be free, Lowenstein says, they will pay to see live performances. “You can’t pirate intimacy,” he says, “and you can’t pirate an experience.”

Glen Phillips, former singer of Toad the Wet Sprocket, compares the idea with striptease sites, “but instead of clothes coming off, [viewers] get to see somebody play music.” Phillips, who has been doing weekly shows on Stageit, says he’d need millions of plays on Spotify or other streaming music services to match the $800 a week he can make from Lowenstein’s site. Bob Schneider, a singer-songwriter in Austin, Tex., says he made about $1,200 from a recent Stageit show, which is helping fund a new album. “You have no expenses doing the Stageit shows in your living room,” he says.

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/evan-lowensteins-stageit-a-live-music-site-02092012.html

(09-12-2012, 12:42 AM)alpha7388 Wrote: Would think she would mention this on her website. Wonder why there is a ticket limit?

I'm definitely in, what a setting; her living room and acoustic new songs. Musical wonderland.

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Tusk and I will be there!

And FINALLY! A way to personally tip her and help her along. You can even tip her before the show.