The Habitat

The Habitat The Habitat is a House concert venue featuring talented independent musicians, both local to the area and those visiting the Bradenton Area
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The Habitat is the private home of Ken and Heather Settlemyer who are passionate about the importance of nurturing both local plant and animal wildlife and independent musicians. We are proud to maintain over 1/4 acre of wilderness within a city environment, providing much needed habitat for a variety of native species. We plant only native species and manage and eliminate the non native species i

n that area.We are delighted to play host, not just to excellent musicians, but to a plethora of beautiful butterflies. The Habitat is by invitation (message for info and directions if needed), BYOB and a there is a recommended donation for the musician/musicians. Food to share is always welcomed, but not required. We look forward to seeing our friends at The Habitat!

01/23/2025

Due to freaking SNOW... Saturday's Brent Burns Show must be cancelled. He can't get here! The roads are closed... we'll reschedule!

We are ready for a cozy evening with Kitty. We'll be inside tonight.
01/11/2025

We are ready for a cozy evening with Kitty. We'll be inside tonight.

Hi All! It's going to be a chilly, wet evening for this show, so RSVP NOW, we're going to bring it inside, so seating is...
01/06/2025

Hi All! It's going to be a chilly, wet evening for this show, so RSVP NOW, we're going to bring it inside, so seating is limited. We have less than 20 spots left.

Florida Native Plants Nursery thanks for the help in picking out this tree to replant our Live Oak lost to Milton!
01/01/2025

Florida Native Plants Nursery thanks for the help in picking out this tree to replant our Live Oak lost to Milton!

Happy 2025 to all our Habitatians! Every year has its' own challenges and 2024 was a doozie! As we enter the 10th year o...
01/01/2025

Happy 2025 to all our Habitatians! Every year has its' own challenges and 2024 was a doozie! As we enter the 10th year of being "The Habitat" we want to thank the musicians who have graced our stage the past year! A huge thanks also to the fans of:

Mike Nash
Ariella
Boomer Blake
Danny Rosado
Grace Morrison
Trevor Bystrom
Jesse Rice
Cory Young
The Wheeland Brothers
Keith Sykes
Mick Fury
Chris Sacks
Charlie Imes
Joe Downing
Dave Freeman
Peter Mayer
Brendan Mayer
Will Kimbrough
Brooke Graham
Scott Kirby
Lew London

Thanks to all of you, we are living out our dream of being philanthropists. Being supporters of the arts means so much in terms of creating a world where there is more joy than sorrow, more love and togetherness than division. To all our musician friends, Keep up the good work. We, your fans, NEED what you do as much as we need water and usually more than food!

Because of our feelings about this, The Habitat is changing the suggested donation from the $20 it has been since 2019, to $25 for 2025. Please note that this is SUGGESTED. We will NEVER turn away a listener!

A grateful acknowlegment to all of you that have made donations, big and small, toward the replanting of the Habitat after Hurricane Milton wiped out all our plants and took down our beloved live oak and several other trees. As WILL KIMBROUGH said in the song he wrote for her at his November show, " there's a wound where she stood and there will always be a scar". However, thanks to all of you, on Jan 10th, A new live oak will be planted where the old one stood. We have, thanks to the help of many people that would not take no for an answer, planted enough replacement flowers that our pollinators are back! There are too many contributors to name, but I MUST shout out to the ones who have actually shocked us with their support:

The Lone Palm Foundation who was there for our immediate crisis.
Wendy Simon Miller (for her dad Charlie)
Bj Withall (for her slightly pathological love of plants)
Steve Spangler (for his bride Sue)
Dennis Molly and Aimee Garay ( for the love of Big Happy Flowers)
Roxanne Harker who designed and spearheaded sale of wristbands for $5 donations that enables many people to be a part of the regrowth!

And to all of Sarasota Bay Parrot Head Club members and others who have bought a wristband and/ or who gave an extra few dollars when you came to a recent show... please know that Florida native flowers in a gallon pot, cost,on average, $10. So, you've planted something wonderful!
Thank you for everything we have experienced together in 2024. We look forward to what we'll be sharing in 2025! Please check our website to rsvp to 2025 concerts at

The Habitat House Concerts 609 49th St W Bradenton FL, 34209 Phone: 941-782-7484 E-mail: [email protected]

The Chosen one!
12/07/2024

The Chosen one!

11/30/2024

In case you missed it. Brooke Graham at The Habitat is an indoor show.

11/24/2024

This message has been delayed far past when we should have voiced our thanks. We've felt pretty overwhelmed! You see...

Once upon a time there was a great, magnificent live oak tree that sheltered music lovers from the sun at The Habitat and formed a backdrop for wonderful music. Milton, who obviously had no respect for either music or shade, ripped that gorgeous tree up by it's roots.

We are used to being the ones helping people, and found it hard to ask for help from others, but were encouraged by a couple of friends to reach out to Lone Palm foundation for help and wow! They came through! We sent in an application, rather expecting to be graciously turned down in favor of others with needs that exceed ours. My phriends, we were not. Less than 4 days after our request we had a check in our hands to help pay for the tree removal. Thank you to everyone in the organization and all those that have donated, past, present and future.

The damage we experienced from Hurricane Milton does not compare to so many others that are recovering from the storm, but we lost something during that storm that we consider irreplaceable - the largest tree on our property, that we called "The Habitat Tree" - a large Live Oak tree that based on the rings count was about 100 years old, and one of the largest trees in town.

It's removal and cleanup has been a long daunting task (with a quite high expense that we needed to move forward on quickly as it was partially on top of the house)... But the biggest loss is the tree and the backdrop it provided for our first 150 concerts. Thank you Lone Palm for your financial assistance in getting us through the worst of the recovery.

We will be planting a new live oak tree and other plants that will re- invigorate
the habitat area. We greatly appreciate the passion our phriends have shown in their support and love of what we have built here and will build again! Our friend Roxanne Harker recently has decided, in her wisdom, to arrange some charity wristbands that will be available for a donation to help replant The Habitat. Any funds provided from the donations for wristbands or anyone that simply wants to send a donation for the purpose of giving our bees, bats, birds and butterflies their homes back that is is excess of what is needed for the replanting is going straight back to The Lone Palm Foundation with our extreme appreciation. Date still to be determined, but once the new tree is in place and we're ready for the grand unveiling, we'd like to invite all of you to come celebrate, live music, nature and parrot heads helping parrot heads! Keep the party going indeed! Cheers to The Lone Palm Foundation and, indeed...all of us.

November 30th... Trust me!
11/20/2024

November 30th... Trust me!

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11/19/2024

Hi all, just wanted to let you all know that there was a glitch in the matrix. Sunny Jim Music is not playing the sbphc social at The Habitat on Thursday. Please see the club page for their schedule. Brooke Graham is our next show on 11/30!

11/02/2024

Hello all! We are busy post Milton trying to find the right "new look" for The Habitat! On 11/12/24 we have a Florida native plant expert coming to help us determine the correct plan to re tree/smaller plants our certified wildlife habitat. On SUNDAY 11/17/24 Will Kimbrough will be here and we will have fairy lights and bubbles and joy! There will still be a lot of ugly during the day, but it will look and sound fantastic in the dark :)! 11/30/2024 brings Brooke Graham to us for the first time! You can't miss this show! She was an amazing headliner at MOTM! On December 7th Scott Kirby and Lew London return. We've missed them terribly! Ken and I hope that you will find time in your schedules to come enjoy and support the musicians and our mission! Baby plants will be welcomed if you'd like to be a part of the renewal of our green spaces!

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