Current Projects If anyone in the local Downeast Maine region is interested, I am looking for arts organization & booking auditoriums to help book tours for performing artists who have bigger names. We have a very small operating budget for performances and usually only do a 25% (us) 75% cut of the house. We are interested in booking an array of performers, but no one is really that interested in traveling to Eastport when we only have a 106 seats in our auditorium, unless they are on a tour. Please let me know if anyone is interested in this plan, and we can get together and work on it for 2009 & 2010 seasons.

Idea Premises
A New England or Canadian Band would be great to bring into the state of Maine. If a group of us worked together to book them at different locations, they would get more out of their experience in Maine.


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Eastport, Arts, Center hey breanna, between SAFA and EAC, we could definitely book bands & instructors without worries of taking audience members away from each other. Eastport is the perfect distance away from Winter Harbor that this system could work. Perhaps we could get a New Brunswick art group involved, and then the bands could do an international tour too.

Posted Date: 2008-08-28 08:47 AM

Breanna, Pinkham We've been discussing this kind of idea at SAFA and the concern is that if a performer is booked in too close a proximity (date and distance) then it reduces the amount of people who come to each concert - for example - Ameranouche played at the grand about a month before it played at our festival and our attendance was quite a bit lower than I thought it should have been. I wonder if there are folks who have used a system like this who could comment on the pros and cons of it and how to make it work best for all venues involved.

Posted Date: 2008-08-12 03:24 PM