Your donations help defray the cost of producing as many fantastic concerts every season as we can.
Yes, Real Live Music!
Welcome to Barefoot Chamber Concerts. We present short (mostly 60-75 minutes with no intermission) programs of really good chamber music in an informal setting. Concerts are mostly on Friday nights and mostly start at 6.30, but check the time and venue, because they can occasionally alter from concert to concert. Covid policies will change, too, keep an eye on the website: for now, some measure of social distancing is likely, but you can move chairs around to fit your group. However, we believe that if you don’t try to do something, it probably won’t happen. Live music is what gets us up in the morning, and it’s clearly something a lot of you enjoy too, so let the games begin in whatever form!
There may eventually be snax! Traditionally, in the past, we’ve had wine, bread and olives in the concerts so you can nibble and sip while you listen, it makes the event more of a conversation. For now, snax are just not possible, but we’re determined to continue the tradition as soon as it seems a good idea, subject to whatever the health authorities recommend. Stay tuned!
We’re a gate series: the staff time is all donated; the players just get whatever you pay at the door minus the cost of the hall! We’re not supported by grants, so we don’t need to program concerts that appeal to funding organizations, and we’re also fully MAGA-proof because we don’t take any federal money anyway.
Lately, we have identified two specific additional needs for donations outside of ticket sales: we need extra money for keyboard rental and moving, and for (very occasional) travel for visiting musicians.
The first need is obvious, since keyboard-based groups have to make a considerable financial sacrifice to get the instrument on stage and tuned (there’s a lot in Mozart’s father’s correspondence about this particular musician’s nightmare). Your donations will even that particular playing field! Last season’s moving fund reached $469, which was just great! This year’s fund has already been jump-started by a $250 donation from the fabulous Linda, and now the “donate” button on the website works again we expect more as we go through the season. Please help: happy harpsichordists make for great concerts, and the occasional fly-in really helps with programming.
The second need is less obvious, since Barefoot has always presented local musicians as a matter of policy, and you’ve clearly noticed that local musicians are all you need for fabulous concerts. However, once in a great while we need to fly in someone from forrin parts. We very rarely need to, but every so often it comes up.
Now you can help make both these things happen, which will enable us to put on really great programs that otherwise would fall short for the lack of a player, and help a harpsichord-dependent group eat a better class of pizza. Last season’s moving fund reached $469, which was just great! This year’s fund has already been jump-started by a $250 donation from the fabulous Linda, and now the donate buton works again we hope you’ll use it and the moving fund will increase as we go through the season. Please help: happy harpsichordists make for great concerts, and the occasional fly-in really helps with programming. As we said, the donate button on the website works now or you can mail us a check made out to “Barefoot” or simply put a check or money in the Big Red Flying Harpsichord that will be at every concert.
There you have it: it’s (mostly) cheap, it’s (very mostly) local, it’s chamber music in the right space, it’s fabulous, and you don’t need shoes.