Their desk might be tiny, but the impact of NPR’s intimate live concert series has been enormous. Born in 2008 out of the broadcaster’s music editor Stephen Thompson’s growing frustration with not being able to hear artists over the crowd at big festivals, the series marked a turn towards high-production value virtual concerts, delivering all the live band and crowd interaction elements of a headline set right into viewers’ homes. Artists were booked to perform directly in the NPR headhellip;read more raquo;