YES!!!  OKC, please join us as we host the INCREDIBLE Mr. Sam Gelband for a house concert on Saturday, September 13!  He's AMAZING!!!  For reservations / more info, please contact [email protected] or 205-616-5009.  

We continue to deliver great live music experiences in a cozy living room setting!  Two shows are added to the calendar:  on September 17, Sweet Megg returns (DON'T MISS IT!), and, on October 18, Matt Tedder from Austin, Texas stops by (DON'T MISS IT, EITHER!).  Join us!  Send a note via the contact page for a reservation or questions!  

We are beyond excited to host some amazing musicians this fall!  Check out the calendar for September and October 2025, and join us for some OKC house concerts!  For more information / reservations, contact [email protected].  

Join us for a cozy house concert with SWEET MEGG!  Tuesday, July 22!  Contact [email protected] or 205-616-5009 for more information / details! 

          Soon, Handmade Moments blitz through Oklahoma, including a stop in Oklahoma City to perform a house concert.  Two people, Anna Moss and Joel Ludford, produce a dizzying and delightful array of music variety.  Out of this world vocals:  check.  Great guitar playing:  check.  Bass clarinet:  check.  Same for tuba, beat-boxing, and improvised raps. 
         “One of the specific memories I have is when we were playing in a biker bar in Eureka Springs, Arkansas,” Moss says.  “Back when we first started Handmade Moments, we didn’t have the luxury of an intimate listening audience.  We just had to play for drunk bikers.  Drunk people at bars in Eureka Springs.  We’re like, how do we get their attention, and Joel started beat-boxing on the mic.  I remember we were playing ‘Ain’t No Sunshine’ by Bill Withers, and he started beat-boxing – cool.  You watched the whole room change.  Then I started beat-boxing, and it’s so fun to do.  And it’s drums without the drama.  Get it, because drummers are dramatic?” 
            Although Handmade Moments play festivals for thousands, they welcome a house concert gig. 
          “There’s something different about a house show,” Ludford says.  “It feels more intimate.  It feels like – I feel like I tend to ramble more and maybe be a bit freer with banter and I don’t feel like I have to – you know, on stage, you have to kind of watch what you say or not say anything too offensive.  But, when you’re at someone’s house, you don’t have that much pressure.  So I feel like it’s more fun.  I feel like some of our best performances have been at really small festivals or house shows that are very non-corporate and folk-driven.  We go more out on a limb, take more chances, and I think I perform a little more realer.” 
            Moss agrees.  “I love the intimate setting.  I much prefer to play for twenty people in an intimate space that are really listening than play for 2,000 people in a crazy arena where no one can hear you and everyone is talking.” 
            Handmade Moments play an Oklahoma City house concert on Saturday, July 12.  For more information or reservations, contact [email protected] or 205-616-5009. 

Check it out, OKC!  Handmade Moments (Anna Moss and Joel Ludford) bring their delightful beats to a cozy living room on Saturday, July 12.  Get ready for great songwriting and an exquisite blend of guitar, bass, tuba, bass clarinet, beat-box, extemporaneous rap, and more!  Email [email protected] or call or text 205-616-5009 for reservations / more information.  

Seattle native and New Orleans singer-songwriter Chris Acker returns to Oklahoma City to share his evocative, funny, insightful, sad – all the things! – songs at a house concert on Friday, June 20.  Anticipating Chris’s arrival, we chatted with him about a range of topics – recent books he’s read, vegetables and herbs to plant that thrive in New Orleans’s buggy setting (answers:  arugula and pole beans), what he does for fun, and the outlook for his favorite baseball team, the Seattle Mariners.  We also talked about his musical influences and beginnings.    
            Curious Pair:  What led to your interest in music? 
           Chris Acker:  It was a lot of what my parents would play in the car.  My main thing is I remember road trips to Idaho from Washington.  Those were my earliest memories of really falling in love with a piece of music. 
             CP:  What kind of music did your parents listen to?
           CA:  They listen to a lot of songwriter stuff.  If anything, I notice as I’ve gotten older, I didn’t really grow up on The Beatles or anything like that or even Bob Dylan.  It was a lot of Nanci Griffith and Emmylou Harris and that kind of stuff.  My dad really likes female singers particularly.  And Paul Simon, Simon and Garfunkel, James Taylor.  But not a lot of big rock bands or anything like that.
            CP:  Are these folks, would you consider them your early influences?
           CA:  Yeah, those were the early ones.  I had a big Dylan phase in high school.  I felt like it was a turning point when I got into Bob Dylan because you had really heavy gnarly songs that were heavy topics, but then there would be this more tender side, and I really became a romantic through him.  When you listen to him, it informs so much other stuff.  Like John Prine.  Growing up, my dad played him a lot.  But it made more sense after Dylan.  Same with when I got into Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark, all the classic ‘70s songwriters.  I feel like Dylan was my first obsession when I was probably fifteen or sixteen.  Oh, and I would say this band Against Me.  They were like a folk-punk band.  They were acoustic.  They’re great.  They were a really big influence on me.  I saw them live like ten times.  Going to shows, they were really inspirational because those were my first experiences of having a really transcendent show experience.  They were kind of the reason I picked up an acoustic guitar. 
            CP:  Did you take lessons?
         CA:  I took one lesson.  I just learned on YouTube.  Which is a cool resource.  You can learn anything there.  I also learned a lot from friends.  My friends and I started a band, and we were all beginners, so we learned together a lot. 
           CP:  What was the name of your band?
          CA:  Dennis.  Just the name Dennis.  Which is a name nobody in the band was named.     
           CP:  Was that with Sam Gelband?
          CA:  Yeah, yeah. 
          CP:  Do you mind telling us a little bit about your connection with Sam?  You guys went to high school together in Seattle.  You were playing gigs at a record store in Seattle and getting paid in records.  Fast-forward fifteen years, you’re both in New Orleans and making great music. 
        CA:  One of the coolest parts about doing this has been the friendships but that one [with Sam] specifically.  That’s been the strongest through-line because we got into playing music together.  He plays in my band – he plays drums on all those records.  And sings.  And then he has his own projects.  We still share stuff with each other all the time.  We don’t necessarily write tunes together but still collaborate pretty heavily. 

Chris Acker plays an Oklahoma City house concert on Friday, June 20.  For more information or reservations, contact [email protected] or 205-616-5009. 

Oklahoma City LUCKILY welcomes back Gar Hole Records artist Chris Acker for a house concert on Friday, June 20!  Chris is an amazing writer and performer, and it's an absolute TREAT he returns to share his music in a cozy living room setting.  Message for reservations / details. 

Join us as we host Zach and Marina for a house concert in our cozy living room on Sunday, May 18!  For more information / reservations, contact [email protected].