From: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org (believers-digest) To: believers-digest@smoe.org Subject: believers-digest V10 #27 Reply-To: believers@smoe.org Sender: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk believers-digest Wednesday, April 12 2006 Volume 10 : Number 027 In Today's believer's digest: ----------------- Re: A worthy cause to support -- houseconcerts in danger... ["Ron Rosen"] Re: A worthy cause to support -- houseconcerts in danger... ["GM Lerch" <] House Concert Issue ["Ron Rosen" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 05:57:13 -0700 From: "Ron Rosen" Subject: Re: A worthy cause to support -- houseconcerts in danger... > But this is precisely what Cindy is doing. She has an email list of > friends to whom she sends the invitations for her music parties, and > doesn't openly invite the public by advertising anywhere. And she doesn't > make any money whatsoever from the parties (as opposed to Tupperware > parties, where the host(ess) makes money from the sales that take place > there). If this is the case, then it would appear that the Township should not prevail. > But it's not technically a public concert. It's an invitation-only > private party at which the attendees are invited (but by no means > required) to pitch in to help pay for the entertainment, in the exact same > way as people convening at a private home to watch the Super Bowl might > pitch in to help pay for the pizza. In this way the township *is* saying > that these people cannot sing in the township, because there really isn't > another complaint for them to make. Assuming that all of the facts are correct - that there was no mention in the newspapers or on a website and it was merely a list of private invitees - then it's difficult to distinguish this from a private party at which live entertainment appears. HELP! owner-believers@smoe.org Send mail to believers@smoe.org Susan's CD's are available on your desktop at World Cafe CDs http://worldcafecds.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 09:27:06 -0500 From: "GM Lerch" Subject: Re: A worthy cause to support -- houseconcerts in danger... I hear what you're saying, Meth. This worries me, too. --Gwen >From: "Ron Rosen" >Reply-To: "Ron Rosen" >To: >Subject: Re: A worthy cause to support -- houseconcerts in danger... >Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 05:57:13 -0700 > >>But this is precisely what Cindy is doing. She has an email list of >>friends to whom she sends the invitations for her music parties, and >>doesn't openly invite the public by advertising anywhere. And she doesn't >>make any money whatsoever from the parties (as opposed to Tupperware >>parties, where the host(ess) makes money from the sales that take place >>there). > >If this is the case, then it would appear that the Township should not >prevail. > >>But it's not technically a public concert. It's an invitation-only >>private party at which the attendees are invited (but by no means >>required) to pitch in to help pay for the entertainment, in the exact same >>way as people convening at a private home to watch the Super Bowl might >>pitch in to help pay for the pizza. In this way the township *is* saying >>that these people cannot sing in the township, because there really isn't >>another complaint for them to make. > >Assuming that all of the facts are correct - that there was no mention in >the newspapers or on a website and it was merely a list of private invitees >- then it's difficult to distinguish this from a private party at which >live entertainment appears. > >HELP! owner-believers@smoe.org Send mail to believers@smoe.org >Susan's CD's are available on your desktop at World Cafe CDs >http://worldcafecds.com HELP! owner-believers@smoe.org Send mail to believers@smoe.org Susan's CD's are available on your desktop at World Cafe CDs http://worldcafecds.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 17:06:41 -0700 From: "Ron Rosen" Subject: House Concert Issue Here's a link to Cindy Harris' blog, which she updated yesterday. http://livingroommusic.blogspot.com/ HELP! owner-believers@smoe.org Send mail to believers@smoe.org Susan's CD's are available on your desktop at World Cafe CDs http://worldcafecds.com ------------------------------ End of believers-digest V10 #27 ******************************* ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------- -------------------------- This has been a posting from the Susan Werner believers-digest To unsubscribe send mail to Majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe believers-digest" in the body of the message