Wow. We hosted over a hundred house concerts, featuring many acts two or three times. The performers included Andy M. Stewart, Brian Peters, Seamus Kennedy, Sara Gray, Anne Hills, Bryan Bowers, Bill Staines, Robbie O'Connell, Tommy Sands, Kat Eggleston, Michael Smith, Roberts & Barrand, James Keelaghan, Tom Lewis, etc., etc.

Favorite memory offhand? Well, there's the time Anne Hills did a slow, soft ballad that opened with harmonica and was supposed to close with it too, except the hinges of her harmonica holder had weakened during the song, making the harp sag forward and out of mouth-reach. Gallantly she tried to reach it. Gallantly she failed.

Keelaghan somehow managed to break two strings on one strum. Stewart had injured himself and could not play guitar, so he sat on a barstool and just sang while Gerry O'Beirne backed him up.

The images in my mind just go on and on. If you can host a concert, do so. It's a very different experience than a coffee house.