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AN OPEN LETTER TO PROSPECTIVE PERFORMERSThank you for your interest in Live Oak Coffeehouse. We appreciate your contacting us. Before you submit your CD and promotional materials to us, we want to share some basic information about our booking process and our concert series. We do not want to discourage you but, as you can imagine, we are deluged with requests from performers and songwriters who wish to play at our venue. Evaluating all the submissions is a time consuming task, but one that our booking committee takes very seriously. We try to review all submissions within 6 to 8 weeks of receiving them, but sometimes this is not possible. If you don’t hear from us within 2 or 3 months, please feel free to follow up. We are constantly amazed at the number of talented performers who we learn about at concerts, festivals, and, occasionally, through unsolicited press kits. Unfortunately, we only present one show per month and are usually booked at least 9 to 12 months in advance. Even if we did a show a week and never repeated performers, it would take us several years to schedule everyone we would like to present. As you are no doubt well aware, there are a lot more talented performers than there are slots at high quality venues. The Live Oak Coffeehouse Concert Series is now in its seventh year and we are a well-established venue. As a result, the competition for available slots is quite intense. Some of the most talented and best-known performers on the folk circuit have played here, including Steve Seskin, Small Potatoes, Shake Russell and Dana Cooper, Buddy Mondlock and Carol Elliott, Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer, Eliza Gilkyson, Michael Fracasso, Still on the Hill, Ed Miller, Michael Smith, Slaid Cleaves, Terri Hendrix, Tom Kimmel, Groovelily, The Kennedys, and Johnsmith. You should also be aware that we almost never book acts solely on the basis of hearing their CD. CDs can provide a general idea about a performer and the quality of their songwriting, but a very important part of the process is hearing you perform live. Stage presence is very important to our type of venue. And CDs frequently include session players who do not tour with a performer, as well as production techniques that, while they enhance the CD, do not accurately convey what the songs sound like in a live setting. Even if we are very impressed with your CD, this is just the first step toward our booking you for a future date. We try to hear live music performances as often as possible by attending festivals (such as the Kerrville Folk Festival, Old Settler’s Music Festival, and ACL Fest), music conferences (such as the National and Southwest Regional Folk Alliance conferences), and Austin-area venues (such as the Cactus Café, ArtZ Rib House, Flipnotics, Jovita's and various house concert series) as often as possible. Please let us know when you are in the Austin area so that we can try to hear you play. After hearing you perform live, we will be in a much better position to consider booking you the next time you are in the area. Additional information about our concert series is available elsewhere on this website. Please send CDs and press kits to Austin Kessler, 8509 B Fathom Circle, Austin, Texas 78750. Email inquiries can be sent to akessler@austin.rr.com. Sincerely, Information for PerformersSeating Capacity: 200+
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