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Midsummer Festival Performers Application

This is the application form for Regional and Local performers, those that live between Prince George and the Queen Charlotte Islands.

We'd like to hear from performers in the Northwest who are interested in helping us celebrate this special community event. To be considered as a local or regional performer, please fill out this application form and submit a recent demo recording to help the Performers' Committee make this one of the best festivals yet. The demo need not be professional; a tape made at practice in your living room is fine. You can omit this if you sent one last year, we'll still have it on file.

Please read the information below to get a better idea of the ins and outs of the festival, and to ensure that you don't miss anything in filling out your application.

• The deadline for receiving applications is April 1st each year.
• Please get your application forms and demo in on time!!
• This Festival promotes jamming as a way of enjoying your own talents and inspiring others. This part of the festival has become very popular so if you or your band members are able and willing to participate in organized jams, please be sure to indicate this on your application.
• Because this is a small regional festival with a small budget, we can only cover mileage for one vehicle per band, group or performer.
• We provide the sound equipment and technicians required for running a tight and enjoyable show. However, you can make our technicians job much easier by indicating your sound and stage requirements on the sheet provided.
• Please let us know if you're going to camp and the number in your group. If you bring your vehicle inside the gates, it must stay in until you leave. A $10.00 fee will be charged for every re-entry of a vehicle into the fairgrounds.

Our grounds and security people have asked that you leave your pets at home and that if you choose to drink alcohol, you do so in moderation and only at your designated campsite. This a glass free festival so please bring beverages in cans and plastic containers only. Families are welcomed and camping is a great way to experience a musically rewarding weekend both during performances and at after hour campfires. Violence, obscenity and drunkenness are absolutely not acceptable at Festival, least of all in stage performances. Any performance unsuitable for a family audience will be terminated immediately, and any performer who shows up inebriated will have their performing privileges withdrawn.

Shared Stage Sets

This type of set involves several individuals (or perhaps duos) from different bands or solo acts, sharing a stage and taking turns playing music around a common theme. "Playing along" with another performer would certainly be acceptable where appropriate. We are listing some suggested themes based on what has been popular in past years and also some new ideas. Participation in shared stages is by invitation, but we would like to know who is interested. Feel free to list your own ideas for a theme and whether you would like to act as host. Once shared-stage participants and hosts have been finalized, each host will contact their respective participants to discuss format and possibly to arrange a time and a place on the Festival grounds to have a pre- performance practice or discussion.

Workshops

With instructional workshops, emphasis will be placed on learning, sharing and participation. We will try to give beginner to intermediate players a greater opportunity to do some hands-on learning and also provide some opportunities to advanced players as well. As a rule of thumb, the majority of participants in these instructional workshops tend to be people from the general Festival public and not necessarily performers. If you have a musical skill you feel would be appropriate in a teaching/learning environment, please indicate it in the application form.

Jam Sessions

Participating in an organized jam session is a great way to get more involved in the festival. The sessions are listed on the festival schedule, and are open to anyone who wishes to join in. They tend to feature a particular musical style or theme. There is no sound equipment in the Jam Zone.

Midsummer Festival occurs the weekend of June 20, 21 and 22, 2008. Our deadline for receiving applications is April 1st, each year. Failure to submit your application on time may result in your performance request being turned down or placed on a waiting list.

Be sure to list ALL band members' names on the application. Upload your demo recording or mail to:

The Performers' Committee
Bulkley Valley Folk Music Society
Midsummer Festival
Box 2209
Smithers, BC V0J 2N0

You will hear from us by mid-April regarding your application. In the meantime, if you have further questions for our Performers' Committee, contact Cindy Savage @ 250 846-9889 or ,Jim Harder @ 250 847-6168

Online Application

Names of group members and the instruments/parts they play in your act: INCLUDE EVERYONE (and spell their names correctly!) -- if they're not listed here, they won't get a pass.

Describe your performance:

Is there any time your band CANNOT perform?

Our stages run Friday 6:00 p.m. TO 12:00 midnight;
Saturday 10:00 a.m. TO 12:00 midnight;
Sunday 10:00 a.m. TO 5:00 p.m.

If you have had any Festival experience before, we would like to hear about it. Please list below any previous festivals, including ours, you have played at:

Please attach an mp3 format demo file. If you do not have one you may mail a CD.Maximum file size is 8MB.

Attach File:

A: Indicate the type of music you play and (if you play more than one type) the percentage of your performance time allocated to each:

% original songs (written and composed by you/your band)

% cover tunes

% your own arrangements of traditional music

B: Please indicate your style of music (or the percentage of various styles)

Is your performance intended primarily as a dance set? Yes No

Shared Stage Sets / Workshops / Jam Zone:

a) Shared Stage Sets: Use this space to indicate a theme in which you would be interested in performing. Please remember that these are for single/duo acts only:

Is there a theme you would like to see that isn't listed above? (be creative...we'd love to hear your ideas!)

NOTE: The Gospel Workshop is a feature of Sunday mornings and welcomes all participants! If you have some specific tunes you want to contribute, please include copies of your song sheets so we can all sing along!!

b) Jam Zone: Are you and/or your band members willing and able to participate and/or lead a jam session? Would you like to sit in on some of the semi-organized jam sessions in the Jam Zone? Some suggested themes are listed below -- please indicate your interest and feel free to add your own ideas!:

c) Instructional Workshops: Traditionally we have based the type of instructional workshop around the individual musical styles and skills of our headliners and you other folks out there who have skills to share. We hope to provide an opportunity for hands- on instruction from some of our best musicians.

Is there a specific instructional workshop you could offer or would like to see? Please list below:

* Don't forget to fill out a stage plot!! *

Childrens Entertainment/Kid's Stage

We're looking for plays, puppets, dancers, story tellers, shared activity leaders and musical performers of all ages to be scheduled for the children's stage area.

Title of Performer/Group:

Names of group members and the instruments/parts they play in your act:

Describe your performance:

Please attach an mp3 format demo file. If you do not have one you may mail a CD.Maximum file size is 8MB.

Attach File:

Equipment

If you have special equipment needs, please let us know: :

* Don't forget to fill out a stage plot!! *