For a primer on How it Works. Wonder how the lucky few felt, when Taimane got onstage at a Sofar Sounds show in Honolulu? After Rachel Lee wrote to the Sofar Sounds headquarters voicing the need for that kind of experience in Honolulu, she was drafted to run it! Lee: Honolulu, we will never be full time, because we live on an island, we just want to sustain the intimacy of one to two shows a month.
If you make it in, the venue address is sent a day beforeit can be anywhere. And you never know the line-up. Khay: The jump to putting yourself out there. Betting on yourself and your artistry and your music and your creativity. Hanohano awards that year. He played Sofar Sounds a couple months later. Khay: That was really when the live performances of my original music really started happening and started getting noticed. So I do hours of cover music popular songs written by others.
Khay: When I performed at Sofar in , it was all original music and to see the audience connect and react to what was really one of my first times performing my original music, to see how well it was received, it kinda clicked in my brain, Oh, this could be a thing. I do credit the very welcoming energy of Sofar Sounds for the reassurance and affirmation that I was headed in the right direction. Khay knows of artists touring based on Sofar gigs, and he says he's found many new favorite performers through this service.
The Sofar website archives performances from around the world, a valuable repository of new talent and outreach. Lee says performers have to be established, you have to have your social network counts, you have to be involved in the community and you have to be passionate. Lee says they're not just looking for music, they welcome comedians, poets, magicians, just talent of all stripes. Some amazing musicians are performing. Most dates are BYOB, and all so far, have sold out.
Sofar Honolulu is always looking for talent and for hosts. Search Query Show Search. Show Search Search Query. Play Live Radio. Next Up:. All Streams. Facebook LinkedIn Email. Credit Rachel Lee.
