Listeningroomnetwork

The concept of home concerts is not new, but in recent years is pitched as a viable way for a performer to maximize their touring time/travel. Concerts in Your Home was acquired by the Listening Room network, which purports to have concerts in public spaces vs residences if I understand the site correctly. I suppose acquiring CIYH was a way as a business to have your cake and eat it too. The site and related online articles I've seen about this org suggest that their domain is pretty small, mainly the state of FL. Having said that, it's not clear just exactly what sort/genre of performer they want. I don't see classical music listed in the types of concert they host or when they try to describe what sort of performers they admit. But aside from that, what are the various types/examples of performers they want to have in their roster? Folk? Rock? Acoustic only? Rap? Blues? No amplification because it's for smaller venues (and how small are these public spaces?) It's all very nebulous and unclear. As a performer, I've studied this site twice over the course of a year and it just isn't clear to me what the expectations and desires are. The biggest thing that shuts it down for me, even if I was a performer of one of the genres they do peddle, is that once admitted, they shake the performer down for another $245 according to the website for the privilege of 'belonging' to the roster. Quite bluntly, this is a bad business model. I've found other home/small space concert networks around the country that don't shake down the performer for money, and have happily become involved with those networks without paying anything.