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Rose Street House of Music is a Berkeley-based volunteer-run and volunteer-hosted house concert & touring musical community featuring women singer-songwriters. In addition to house concerts and collaborative events throughout the community, Rose Street has birthed 2 compilations and over 30 musical tours. Women songwriters who "sing outside the box" and who have something to say are often marginalized by the music industry. Rose Street's focus is on providing a venue and community for women's voices to be heard through poetic music of substance and depth.
All genders are welcome as audiences, volunteers, and musical backup support for the artists we feature.
Rose Street is volunteer-run, a labor of love. It is a non-profit project of IMA (Institute for Musical Arts). New volunteers are always welcome!
"Rivkin, who performs her own breathtaking act as a "live one-woman choir" (using digital looping technology to astonishing effect), said house concerts offer artists "a venue to connect with the audience where there's not so much of a separation between the audience and the performer. For me, music is a lot about connection."" Michael Dougan, SF Chronicle
In Rose Street Harmony Tours, Rose Street founder/songwriter/live-looping-artist Irina Rivkin takes the magic of Rose Street on the road, often joining with other Rose Street artists, performing both solo and in collaboration.
For info on hosting a Rose Street Music event or a Rose Street Harmony tour concert at your home, festival, school, back-yard, community center, or other venue, please email rosestbooking(at)yahoo(dot)com
To see/hear an example of a live-looping performance (rhythms/harmonies all performed live-on-the-spot), please see:
http://www.youtube.com/irinarivkin
(pictured left to right in photo above by Nicole Roberts, taken live at Rose Street House of Music: Shelley Doty, Andrea Prichett of Rebecca Riots, Irina Rivkin and SONiA of Disappear Fear, Pamela Means, Kym Tuvim. Picture in photo to the left by Alma, taken live at Sistah's Steppin' in Pride Festival: Irina Rivkin live-looping)