So you want to play the Coffeehouse…
Thank you for your interest in performing at the Wendell Full Moon Coffeehouse, a family friendly, all ages, nonsectarian venue. To understand what we’re all about, please read our mission statement, then come back here.
Venue and booking details:
- Performers for the season are selected by a volunteer committee at a summer meeting. Feel free to fill out the form below or send an E-mail, but booking decisions are made by the volunteer committee — we will contact you if we want to book you.
- The Wendell Full Moon Coffeehouse presents a wide range of genres including World Music, Folk, Dance Bands, jazz, Swing, Honky Tonk, Singer-Songwriters, Blues, Rock, Reggae, Classical, Comedy Troupes, Local Theatre, Belly Dancing, and more. We cater to the tastes of our hill town audiences, who are not shy about clearing out chairs and enjoying a night of dancing.
- The Coffeehouse takes place in the historic Wendell Town Hall at 4 Center Road. It has a capacity of 95 seated or 145 standing. Seats are folding chairs which can be moved away for dancing.
- Every show is a benefit. There is a $7-$20 cash (no checks or credit cards) donation at the door. There are no advance ticket sales. There is an ATM at the Country Store, just 1/2 mile down Locks Village Road.
- The revenue from the door is split after expenses (hall rental, promotional materials, etc.), with the performer receiving 60% of the profit and the beneficiary receiving 40%. Performers receive a $300 minimum guarantee.
- Table space is available for selling band merchandise (CD’s, stickers, clothing etc). Performers are responsible for staffing the table.
- Promotion:
We are an all- volunteer committee that runs the Coffeehouse and depend on the beneficiary and performers to help us get the word out. We ask you to commit to alerting your fans with good advance notice of your show in your promotions, including emails to your mailinglists, posting on your website, and posting on social media. Please send us your digital promotional materials at least 2 months before the show, with a blurb about your band/show and photos. We will create a flyer that can be dropped into social media posts, available on our website under “posters” a month before the show and we will create and send you a Facebook page that you can repost. If you are local, feel free to respond to posts that we make on the local listserves to increase interest in the event. Please let us know if you are having any difficulty completing promotions or accessing our flyer. - The stage is approximately 12′ deep by 20′ wide. The coffeehouse supplies one sound engineer. Equipment includes:
- (1) 8 channel powered mono mixer
- (1) main speaker over the stage
- (4) monitor wedges, 1 monitor mix
- (4) SM58 (vocal) mics, (1) SM57 (instrument) mics
- (2) DI boxes
- (5) boom mic stands
- (2) short boom mic stands.
- a supply of cables, including a few extra XLR (mic) and 1/4″ (instrument) cables.
- Wiring to mix position includes 12 XLR mic cables, 4 XLR returns, and 4 speaker runs (1/4″ at the board end, and SpeakOn at the stage end).
- We are not a full-time commercial venue. We present upto 8 shows a year on Saturday nights near the full moon from September through April.
