Community Arts Support
ACHF Arts Access
To continue to offer regular concerts, to book a mix of local/regional and (relatively) high-guarantee touring artists, and to offer modest guarantees-against-sales to At the Door artists. Track attendance (which amounts to ticket sales) for both At the Door and Main Series events. Track number of Main Series events. Continue to fill our calendar with regular (mostly weekly) events.
We just count things: number of concerts, tickets sold (which equals audience). We presented 33 concerts in the 2015-16 season: 11 Main Series and 22 At the Door. This means we had music nearly every week that didn't conflict with a holiday. Total attendance was 956 for the year, with two events (held in larger venues than Bo Diddley's) hitting 93 and 103. We exceeded the artist guarantees on 8 of the 11 Main Series concerts and saw modest shortfalls on 3 (for a total of $120). For all but three of the At the Door concerts we offer a guarantee of $50-200 ($100 for all but four of them) against the entire door (less a portion of the sound tech's pay). All of the At The Door events made or exceeded their guarantees, several by a considerable margin (two to four times the guarantee). This made everyone quite happy. (And the grant is a big part of our ability to offer guarantees to At the Door artists, which in turn helps us to book a wider range of these usually local/regional acts and still only charge $10.)
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