Jeri Goldstein Copyright 2012 The New Music Times, Inc.
Getting into your festival of choice is not an easy task. There is so much competition vying for just so many performance slots. So how can you make yourself look more attractive to the artistic director?
First spend some time on the festival site and get familiar with what the festival is about. Get a real understanding of the scope of the festival and what the director is trying to accomplish with their programming. Look over last year's schedule and read all the workshop titles and who performed in those workshops. See anything familiar or performers that you know? Can you do something like what is being promoted here? Take a look at all the stages if it is a multi-stage festival. Those smaller stages are probably the right place for you to enter the festival if you are a first timer. As you view the main stage time slots and acts, can you see potential time slots that might be good for you to get your foot in the door that are not the prime time evening slots if the festival runs night stages?
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