ellions,
Sings Like Hell is now in it's tenth year of presenting the greatest music you've never heard. We have created a space where genuinely talented singer-songwriters can perform their art in the presence of an appeciative, intelligent audience in a beautiful, historic theatre...in Santa Barbara. In reality, it's a monthly musical pot-luck party for our 600 closest friends!
Sings Like Hell is an example of a community taking control of its own musical destiny. We've said this a hundred times before...no matter which artist is presented, every audience is built from local people going to a local box office one at a time and buying a ticket to a show that they have been turned onto by their friends. In the case of Sings Like Hell, this series has been built by the subscribers,confidently buying series tickets for artists they've never heard of and convincing their friends to do likewise.

The benefits to subscribers of discovering new, passionate music include the chance to meet and talk with the artists after each performance, getting the same seat to each show, and having the opportunity to buy tickets to higher-profile concerts when we are able to book them...like Bruce Hornsby, Emmylou Harris and Alison Krauss.

The benefits to Sings Like Hell include having a base of loyal subscribers, which allows us to budget for shows that are more artistically interesting and financially risky. We have also found that subscribers often become donors and sponsors, allowing the series to grow along the lines of attraction and affection, rather than having to be focused exclusively on the bottom line.
As Robert Hilburn of the Los Angeles Times wrote recently, "Sings Like Hell...feels like a valuable oasis in the middle of a pop scene too often dominated by spectacle."
Thanks for discovering Sings Like Hell. Come back often and bring your friends!
Warm regards,
Peggie Jones, Anne & Hale Milgrim, Rob & Ellen Raede, Jodie & Bruce Willard