Fifth Street Farms is based in Berkeley, California; its final room configuration should be confirmed for each show. This house venue hosts live music "upstairs in a unique room with great sound. Shows take place once or twice a month, typically on a Friday, Saturday, or Sunday. Fifth Street Farms programs Acoustic, Americana, Classical, Folk, Instrumental, Jazz, and Roots Music. Fifth Street Farms accepts booking inquiries by email. Sound and stage provisions at Fifth Street Farms remain show-specific and should be advanced before travel is locked. Before confirming Fifth Street Farms, settle the running time and any venue-specific promotion or settlement terms.
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The Monkey House is a Berkeley listening room in the spirit of old vaudeville: intimate, BYOB, often Thursday-Saturday, sometimes Sunday or weekday, and explicitly selective about who contacts it. Do not reach out unless you have a Berkeley-area fanbase. If you qualify, send audio and ideally video, plus a realistic estimate of fans you expect to attend. The venue says it can respond only to acts it wants to book. That is not mean. That is a small room trying to survive contact with the entire internet. Public feedback from performers and audience members calls it a Berkeley treasure, intimate, underground, and strong for singer-songwriters and varied excellent musicians. The booking request should be treated as a local-audience test, not an artistic referendum. Send live evidence, lineup, genre, dates, draw, and a concise note about why your project fits a listening room. Confirm capacity, PA, monitors, microphones, board, engineer, lighting, soundcheck, load-in, ticketing, BYOB rules, payment, merch, and promotion only if your fanbase makes the inquiry legitimate. Singer-songwriters, folk, acoustic projects, chamber pop, jazz, roots, spoken word, magic and variety performance, and original music with something to say all fit. The audience comes to listen. That is a gift, but it will expose a lazy set before the second chorus. The Monkey House suits artists with a genuine Berkeley-area draw and material worthy of close attention. Respect the no-cold-submissions-without-local-fans rule, send the real numbers, and make the little room feel as large as it does when the right song lands.
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- Ira
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- Capacity
- 65
- Age policy
- All Ages
- Genres
- Acoustic, All Genres
- Sound & production
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- Address
- 1638 University Avenue, 94703, United States
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