Karen Axelrod's In the Moment Series

• The Format
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• The Videos

Karen's In the Moment: A NOT Concert takes place every Tuesday evening at 7:00 ET / 6:00 CT on Facebook Live. If you are on Facebook you can find Karen at karen.axelrod.9.

Although you must have a Facebook account to listen and watch each not-concert as it streams, the videos are viewable without a Facebook account after the stream is done. Links to the videos are posted near the bottom of this page.

What are these not concerts?

Karen receives recordings of tunes from fellow ECD musicians such as Daron Douglas, Anna Patton, Rachel Bell, Jeff Spero, and several more. Although Karen knows what the tunes are in advance, she doesn't listen to the recordings ahead of time and has no idea what the other musician is going to do with the tune.

Playing either piano or accordion, she plays along with each recording while streaming on Facebook.

Not only is it musically spontaneous, but anything can and does happen. That only adds to the fun and the in-the-moment and not-a-concert aspects. Power has gone out, a smoke alarm has gone off, extra and totally unexpected musicians have turned up on recordings, and there is the occasional technical glitch. Karen has to react to each of these, and sometimes her reactions are priceless.

Tips Appreciated!

Here is Karen's Tip Jar on PayPal.me (PayPal account required). Karen shares these tips with the core musicians who send her recordings. Please donate if you can.

The Videos

The first video is Karen's concert in honor of Set for Spring. The evening of March 23 would have been the Saturday ball of Set for Spring here in Houston with Karen, Anna Patton, and Daron Douglas as the musicians.

There are two versions of the Set for Spring video: the original hosted on Facebook and a version hosted on the HATDS site. The HATDS version lacks the comments (and pop-ups) of the Facebook original and has about five minutes of pre-concert setting-up removed. The original is also reversed (mirrored); this has been rectified in our hosted version.

Each not-concert is about an hour long—unless the power goes out.

0. March 23 Facebook | HATDS
1. March 31
2. April 7
3. April 14
4. April 21
5. April 28
6. May 5
7. May 12
8. May 19
9. May 26
10. June 3 Wheee!
11. June 9
12. June 16
13. June 23
14. June 30
15. July 7
16. July 14
17. July 21
18. July 28
19. August 4
20. August 11
21. August 18
22. August 25
23. September 8
24. September 15 with Alchemy!
25. September 22
26. September 29
27. October 6
28. October 13
29. October 20
30. October 27
31. November 3
32. November 10
33. November 17

Other Concerts

November 7 Requests Concert with Alchemy