Article Contributed by Alan Sheckter
| Published on Wednesday, April 28, 2021
During this age of COVID-19, touring musicians across the land have been creative with the process of bringing music to their fans while maintaining some ability to generate revenue. Live video streams have been a ubiquitous way to accomplish both, and more recently pod-separated, limited attendance performances have emerged. In the San Francisco Bay Area,
KC Turner Presents adapted to the COVID health protocols and has developed a special, portable concert series niche that has materialized into an efficient and effective enterprise.
Facilitated by KC Turner, live-music producer and talent buyer for the Hopmonk Tavern venues in Sonoma and Marin counties, California, his In Your Driveway (or Back Yard) Concert Series has been generating happy customers (and musicians), with more performances slated for at least the next two months. “We roll up in one car and literally are bringing a headlining artist to your back door,” Turner said. “We drop in about 30 minutes before we go on, we play an 75-minute set, and then we leave.”