There are perks that come with playing house concerts.

“They were some of the smallest shows we’ve ever played in our lives, but they felt like some of the biggest shows we’d ever played in our lives,” Tim Quirk said about last summer’s Wonderlick tour, which included a show at a house in Youngstown. “They felt more impactful, just the connection felt deeper between us and the songs and us and the crowd and the crowd and the songs. It was just all these connections, and it felt huge.”

That Youngstown show was fun. I have more vivid and enjoyable memories of that performance than many of the concerts I saw last year in bigger and more traditional venues with much higher ticket prices.

But there also are obstacles with that method of touring. Unlike the late ’80s and early ’90s, when Quir

See Full Page