19 Aug
2011
19 Aug
'11
1:07 a.m.
What we have done is to plan far in advance and decide on our first choice for callers and
bands. Then we contact them about their interest and availability and tell them what we
can offer to pay them. We ask for a response back (within 2-3 weeks), and if it's a
negative, we repeat the procedure with another band/caller.
In thinking about money, we've decided that we will offer what we can afford according
to our budget limitations rather than try to negotiate back and forth. We want to give
the most money we can possibly afford to our performers. One year, we offered to
"profit share" so that if we took in more money than anticipated, we would
allocate additional money to performers and to the sound man.
Peggy Dempsey
Rochester, NY
On Aug 18, , at 5:53 PM, Chris Page wrote:
(tap, tap, tap -- is this thing on?)
A bookings etiquette question:
For a special contra event (weekend, daylong event), is it better to
ask performer's availabilities in serial or in parallel?
In other words, should one focus on one bookee at a time, only moving
on after a non answer, or a reasonable amount of time?
Or is it better to ask multiple talents at once, and then select from
those that responded?
Curious,
(and also curious if anyone's still on this list)
-Chris Page
San Diego
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