Unique Experiences
Private House Concert with Jill Sobule!
- Item Number
- 115
- Estimated Value
- Priceless
- Leading Bid
- 3000 USD
- Number of Bids
- 1 - Bid History
Item Description
Make your next dinner party (or birthday! anniversary!) an unforgettable experience with guest musician Jill Sobule playing a private concert in your own living room!
Hailed by The New York Times for making “grown-up music for an adolescent age” Jill Sobule is a singer-writer in the smart and witty tradition of Randy Newman and Warren Zevon. And she will come to your home and give you a private concert!
About Jill
Ever since she first caught mainstream attention with her 1995 song “I Kissed a Girl” — the first song about same-sex romance ever to crack the Billboard Top 20 (and no relation to the later Katy Perry tune) — she’s always pushed forward, exploring new sounds and subject matter with each passing album and refusing to be pigeonholed by her early hits (which also include the ‘90s alt-rock anthem “Supermodel,” featured in an iconic scene in the film Clueless).
Along the way, Jill has shared stages with the likes of Billy Bragg, Cyndi Lauper and Warren Zevon, written music for TV and theater, and been a pioneer in the art of crowdfunding, raising so much money for her 2009 album California Yearsthat a then-unknown startup called Kickstarter came to her for advice. She’s also been active in numerous social and political causes, performing at prisons as part of Wayne Kramer’s Jail Guitar Doors project, playing dates with Lady Parts Justice’s “Vagical Mystery Tour,” and curating Monster Protest Jams Vol. 1, featuring protest songs by Tom Morello, Billy Bragg, Boots Riley, Amanda Palmer, Jackson Browne and many other great artists — including Jill’s own “When They Say We Want Our America Back, What the F#@k Do They Mean?”, which traces the history of anti-immigrant sentiment in America.
Through her own experiences, Jill explores issues our society still collectively struggles with (LGBTQ rights, teen mental health, our unhealthy obsession with staying forever young) and gently skewers our tendency to dwell on the past at the expense of addressing the present. As she sings on the title track: “We look at ourselves in a long row of mirrors/We get smaller and smaller with each passing year/We have to keep moving or die.”
Item Special Note
Date and time mutually decided upon, expires December 31, 2019.
If outside of NY Metro Area, winning bidder would need to cover the cost of Jill's travel and housing for the evening of the private concert.
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