Come sing
For Singers
What it actually feels like to step into the ring — the honest version, including the parts people are nervous about.
For singers →Founding Company
RAISE THE FIRST TENT
Some stories are different when you can honestly say, “I was there before the tent was full.”
The tent isn’t standing yet — just an idea that worked online, and the people willing to help find out if it works live. This isn’t a fundraiser and it isn’t a club. It’s an invitation into the chapter that only happens once.
Every live show starts as an experiment. Every experiment starts with someone willing to say yes.
See how to join →The Honest Part
Right now, there’s no tent yet. There’s an idea that worked online, a woman testing whether it works live, and a handful of people who showed up before there was anything to point to except a feeling that this was going somewhere.
That’s not a pitch. That’s just where things actually stand.
Here’s what we’re not asking: for you to feel sorry for a project that needs help, or to buy a badge that makes you special, or to race a countdown clock before the good spots run out. None of that is true here, and we’re not going to pretend it is.
Here’s what’s actually true: some chapters of a story only happen once, and this is one of them. Not because we’re promising this becomes famous. Because if it does become something, the version of it that exists right now — small, unproven, a little bit held together with duct tape and nerve — won’t exist again. You either caught it here or you didn’t.
Who This Is For
If any of this sounds like you, you already belong here — not because you qualify, but because you’re curious.
Singers
Who want to try something that scares them a little.
Watchers
Audience members who’d rather witness a real thing happening than watch a polished one.
Venue Owners
Wondering if their Tuesday-night dead zone could become something people talk about.
Makers
Musicians, photographers, videographers who want their name on something before it needed convincing.
Volunteers
Who like being useful to something that isn’t fully built yet.
Writers, Artists & Curious Observers
Anyone who just likes watching an idea become real instead of reading about it after the fact.
You don’t need experience. You don’t need a portfolio. You need to be a little bit curious what happens next, which, if you’ve read this far, you probably already are.
What We’re Actually Building
A live version of something that’s already proven it works on a screen.
800-plus people singing songs in genres nobody expected, from more than ten countries, because something about hearing a familiar song lie to you in an unfamiliar voice turned out to matter to them.
We’re testing whether that same thing happens in a room — a real microphone, a real crowd, a real moment where someone picks a song without knowing yet what it’s about to become. Starting with borrowed stages. Existing karaoke nights. A takeover, not a grand opening. Los Angeles, late summer or early fall.
If it works, it grows into something with its own room — regular shows, private events, other cities eventually. If it doesn’t work exactly the way we think, we’ll find that out honestly, in public, instead of pretending from a safe distance.
Why Now
Because the online version already proved the idea.
Because there’s a birthday on the calendar (July 14) that’s become a natural marker for the first real push. Because the first live takeover needs actual humans — singers, a room, someone willing to say yes to a show that doesn’t have a five-year track record yet.
Waiting for it to be a sure thing would mean waiting until it’s not this chapter anymore.
How You Participate
Pick whichever fits — none of these require you to have picked right the first time. You can add more later.
Sing
Get handed a song and a genre you didn’t choose, live, in front of people.
Watch
Come be a witness, not just an audience member.
Host
If you run a venue, or know one that might say yes to something strange for a night.
Make
Photograph it, film it, write about it, play in the band behind it.
Help
There’s always something that needs doing that isn’t glamorous and matters anyway.
Fund It
The Ko-fi birthday push (July 14) covers the unglamorous costs — sound gear, venue deposits, the stuff that has to exist before any of the above can happen.
What Happens Next
You’ll hear from us when there’s a real date, a real venue, and a real ask that matches what you signed up for. Nobody gets buried in updates about a project that isn’t ready to update yet. When there’s something worth telling you, we’ll tell you.
Welcome to the Founding Company
That’s the actual name for what you’d be joining
once you’re standing inside it instead of reading about it from outside: the Founding Company. Not a club. Not a tier. The specific, small, real group of people who were part of this before it needed convincing anyone else.
What you get for that isn’t a badge or a discount. It’s the plain fact of it — first billing in a story that either stays small and true or turns into something bigger, and either way, you were there for the part that can’t be repeated.
Come watch
For the Audience
You're not just watching. You're witnessing. That's a different job, and it pays better.
For the audience →Own a venue
Host a Takeover
The full pitch for venue owners — what it is, what you provide, how one night actually works.
Venue pitch →The Roll Call
Those who raised the first tent.
Right now, this list is short. That’s not an accident and it’s not something we’re going to dress up as bigger than it is.
— [Your name here]
— [Your name here]
— [Your name here]
(There’s a lot of empty space below this line. That’s on purpose.)
Where would you like to begin?