If you are following along with me in this blog, then you may want to know how one would schedule a tour. This is provided you are not using a Booking Agency. I definitely enjoy the interaction I have with people before the event, so for now, I am reaching out prayerfully on my own.
If you have any contacts or wonderful places for me to share the music and ministry entrusted to me, please feel free to share and I will prayerfully consider and reach out!!!
Booking a Tour (Not a complete list, I am sure.)
Step 1: Pray
Step 2: Keep Praying and have others do the same. (continue reading for hands-on practical steps)
Step 3: Determine a few base nights with people and/or church families who have the a similar heart and mission as you do.
Step 4: Start filling in other nights/dates and try to schedule them so you are not back tracking between cities within 1 to 3 hours. Contact churches, cafes, ministries you would like to come alongside and join for an evening or even a morning.
Step 5: Request a host family or accommodations in the area so that you can get to know the people and community and share in their work. (Unless you are able to accommodate yourself in a hotel or with people you know.) and request a healthy MEAL possibly for before or after the event.
Step 6: Determine what kind of transportation you will need - car, bus, suv.
Step 7: If possible, carry most of your own gear and instruments. Whatever you don't need, just leave in the vehicle. Better safe than sorry.
Step 8: Have a press kit available for the Venue/Church/Group 2 months in advance for each venue or ministry night, so that public service announcements can be made.
Step 9: You haven't stopped praying.
Step 10: Purchase any airline tickets to far destinations. (Preferably not with money you don't have.)
Step 11: Be ready for changes, cancellations, broken sound equipment, break downs (Get AAA), difficulties, joys, confusion, clarity, and most of all, be ready to be used by God wherever He leads you.
Step 12: Make sure you have enough CDs, merchandise, a portable table, CD Sales Table Decor, Credit Card swiper (or SQUARE - free, and only 2.75% fee), Change, Means of collecting emails and CONTACT info with people you are kindred with!, rules for selling in other locales (i.e. taxes), and anything else you can think of (i.e. water, granola bars, hand soap for laundry!)
Nothing happens in a vacuum, so trust that God is guiding your steps no matter what the circumstances are or become.
Prayer will keep you remembering you can TRUST the Lord with all of this.
Prayer is the WORK! Oswald Chambers
So, I'll keep you posted on how the scheduling goes for the Five O'Clock 2012 Northeast Summer Concert Tour! :) Please help me pray!
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