How to get involved – what we need from you

(a) Musicians and Performers

Simply email in to to register your interest, and provide us with:

· Performing Name

· Description (max seven words – to go on posters and other publicity)

· Contact details for publicity (phone/email/MySpace/Website or whatever)

· Personal contact details if different (a phone number is very useful for us in case of bad weather cancellation, if not included in the above)

and you’ll go on our ‘Potentials’ elist (see ‘Mailing Lists’ page). From that point on you’ll get automatic notification of all upcoming Events and an invitation to participate in each.

As soon as you can commit to coming to any specific Event, let us know the above details if we don’t already have them, and also

· Name and date of Event (if it’s a two day event, whether you’re available for first or second day or both or either)

· Earliest start time

· Latest finish time

· Maximum total playing time you can manage (for busy events our ‘timed slots’ are 30-40”, including set-up and clear-off, most people do 2-4 sets per day)

· Whether you need travel expenses, and if so how much

· Any special requirements (novel venue, wooden dance floor, preferred venues, whatever) and

· If the Event includes ‘extras’ (Stone Circles Music, Pub Sessions or whatever) whether you are interested in these.

We’ll then confirm your ‘booking’ either with exact specific details, or more generally (eg ‘Saturday 3 slots between 12 and 4.30’); in the second case we’ll confirm your exact itinerary as soon as we can. Then just turn up and play and enjoy!

Note

· The more flexibility you give us, the more likely you are to get slots – but if you’ve particular requirements we can usually meet them

· Once we’ve confirmed please consider yourself ‘booked’ so let us know promptly if your availability or requirements change

· Questions/comments/special requests to Dave at 01629-825531 or email please

· Please come and listen even if/when you’re not playing – we need feedback and ideas for how to do it better in the future!

(b) Other ways to get involved

We always need help and support with what we’re doing here – Could you

· Distribute posters and flyers round your local area to where potential musicians/performers may see them? We can send you hard copies through the post, or e-materials

· Distribute posters and flyers round your local area where potential punters will see them?

· Help set up good links to MySpace/other appropriate web-sites? It’s in all our interests to have the best links we can, we all want as many people as possible to know what we’re doing

· Help draft and distribute press releases (including for your own performances here)?

· Help with set-up/take-down on Event days?

· Help build effective working links with other organisations for mutual benefit?

· Become a Member of the Company? Your only liability would be to contribute £1.00 if we go belly-up, but you get the right to vote at formal meetings to control overall strategy and appoint/dismiss Directors

· Become a Director of the Company? We urgently need skilled committed people to join our small Board to keep the Company on track and to direct its future strategy

· Ideas, suggestions, comments, useful contacts, anything at all to make what we do the very best it can be?

Contact Dave at 01629-825531 or email to discuss these or any other possibilities