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Sing a song, break some bread, make a friend. Singer-songwriter Emily Laliotis is pioneering this warmer take on a house show. Song Soup is a house show, a bowl of homemade soup, and a curated setlist of songwriters who are equally as talented writers as they are performers. It started almost by accident in December 2024.

I’ve often heard online music communities — YouTube Channels, Discord servers, TikTok accounts, Facebook groups, Reddit communities — described as “cesspools of mediocrity” or something similarly dismissive. And I understand the impulse.

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“We have to get creative about the way we are making money,” she explains. “If there’s any way that we can help people in the process and focus on another revenue stream, all the better.”