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R. Scott Bryan has a rare ability to sing and play everything from guitar and bass to keyboards and percussion–end
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R. Scott Bryan has a rare ability to sing and play everything from guitar and bass to keyboards and percussion–end do it all exceedingly well. Scott toured the world and recorded for five years with superstar Sheryl Crow band, co-authoring the 1996 Top Ten U.K. single “Hard to Make a Stand.” He has since released two critically-acclaimed recordings under his own name.
Contact Name: Jodie Gilbert
Address: 8008 Carondelet Ave, Suite 301, St. Louis MO 63105
Phone: 314-421-9400
Performance Fee Range: $800-$3000
Technical Requirements:
PA system appropriate to venue size, and sound tech. Lighting if needed. 1 hour for load-in and sound check.
Availability: Year-round.
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Theater
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Quixotic is an ensemble of musicians, dancers, aerialists, composers, technicians, designers, and choreographers collaborating to produce new forms of artistic
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Quixotic is an ensemble of musicians, dancers, aerialists, composers, technicians, designers, and choreographers collaborating to produce new forms of artistic expression through customized experiences. This inventive group of artists goes beyond the limits of any specific art form to create total sensory immersion for its audiences. Quixotic makes unique memorable experiences ranging from site specific installations to full stage performances.
Contact Name: Mica Thomas
Address: 1616 Broadway Boulevard
Phone: 816-872-6398
Performance Fee Range: $5,000 to $60,000
Technical Requirements:
Available on request.
Availability: Year-round.
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Puppetry
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The Puppetry Arts Institute offers historical puppet shows/marionette theatre using a variety of styles of puppets (marionettes, hand puppets, shadow
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The Puppetry Arts Institute offers historical puppet shows/marionette theatre using a variety of styles of puppets (marionettes, hand puppets, shadow puppets). Currently two marionette shows are touring, “Lewis & Clark; A Dog’s Eyeview” and “Trouble on the Border: Order No. 11”. Shows last 30-45 minutes. discussion questions can be provided. Discussion of show content can follow performances. Two to three puppeteers are needed to perform our touring shows. These puppeteers have between 8 and 30 years of touring and performing experience. Our shows have received excellent reviews and some venues have rebooked us due to audience request and the success of our performances.
Contact Name: Nancy Clark
Address: 11025 E Winner Rd, Independence 64052-3839
Phone: 816-833-9777
Email: pai@att.net
Performance Fee Range: $500-$1200
Technical Requirements:
Minimum performance space is 8' high, 12' wide x 12' deep. Access to standard electrical. One hour set-up and take down time. One person is needed to assist.
Availability: Year-round.
Categories List: Puppetry
Theater
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Step right up folks, for an engaging bit of Americana, ideal for audiences of all ages. Professor Farquar and Polecat
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Step right up folks, for an engaging bit of Americana, ideal for audiences of all ages. Professor Farquar and Polecat Annie set entertainment back more than a century. Unlike the snake oil hucksters of the past, they peddle no elixirs or patent pills. Instead, they dispense copious amounts of laughter, the best medicine of all. With guitar, banjo and an odd collection of percussive instruments, they perform timeless toe-tapping traditional tunes, lyrical laments and droll ditties from the Civil War, the Ozarks and the Old West. Astonishing demonstrations of illusion, chicanery, hoodwinking and flimlam. Hands-on instruction in juggling and archaic amusements. Vibrant, vintage vaudeville virtousity!
Contact Name: Sanford D. (Sandy) Lee
Address: PO Box 613, Concordia 64020
Phone: 660-463-4010
Email: sandy@sanfordlee.com
Performance Fee Range: $400 for a single show. $1,750 for weekend festivals (three shows a day)
Technical Requirements:
Prefer 60 minutes for set up and sound check. If we're sharing a stage with other acts, we can do it in less than ten minutes. Need an 8' x 12' stage or performance area. Require three microphones with stands (or we can provide our own system). Gaily festooned medicine show wagon available as a stage set (optional).
Availability: Year-round.
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Dance
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Prasanna & Seema’s group specializes in South Asian performing arts. The group performs classical dance styles such as – Bharathanatyam
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Prasanna & Seema’s group specializes in South Asian performing arts. The group performs classical dance styles such as – Bharathanatyam (from South India), Kathak (from North India), Indian folk dances. They sing Carnatic Music, a classical music style from India. They have a fusion music bands with Indo- American styles, with our “Raga Experiment” and “Natya Experiment”. They bring artistic beauty of the East to your event. For more information go to https://www.prasannakasthuri.com/ and https://www.seemakasthuri.com/
Contact Name: Prasanna Kasthuri
Address: 268 Arbor Crest Dr, Ballwin 63021
Phone: 314-397-5278
Email: prasanna@sooryadance.com
Performance Fee Range: $1250 - $8000
Technical Requirements:
Wooden Stage, 25'-32', lighting optional, audio system required, set up time a minimum of six hours.
Availability: Year-round.
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Music
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When pianist Peter Miyamoto burst onto the music scene as winner of the Irving S. Gilmore Young Artist Award, he
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When pianist Peter Miyamoto burst onto the music scene as winner of the Irving S. Gilmore Young Artist Award, he was heralded as “an uncommon performer, a real musical presence who can sweep the audience up in the vision of a piece and…make you care” – Kalamazoo Gazette. As recitalist and concert soloist Miyamoto has performed to great acclaim in major US cities such as Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Washington D.C., and internationally in Canada, England, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Switzerland, China and Japan. His repertoire is enormous encompassing hundreds of solo, chamber and concerto works from the baroque, classical, romantic and modern eras. Master class and family concerts are also available. Program lengths vary from 45 minutes to 2 hours.
Contact Name: Peter Miyamoto
Address: 2713 Burrwood Dr., Columbia 65203-2905
Email: miyamotop@missouri.edu
Performance Fee Range: $750-$3000
Technical Requirements:
A tuned grand piano (Steinway, Bosendorfer, Yamaha, Baldwin, or Kawai) and minimum rehearsal time of one hour.
Availability: September - June
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Puppetry
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Paul Vandivort teaches workshops in puppet making and performance in schools, libraries, and summer camps. After learning the art of
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Paul Vandivort teaches workshops in puppet making and performance in schools, libraries, and summer camps. After learning the art of puppet making in The Heart of the Beast, and Bedlam Theaters in Minneapolis, Paul Vandivort has dedicated his life to the art of children’s performance. In the past 18 years he has been performing puppet shows, and leading workshops in schools, libraries, summer camps, and at festivals throughout Missouri. Paul Vandivort offers a 15 minute performance followed by a 30 minute workshop in puppet building. Also, a 45 minute performance is available without the workshop. Each puppet show (story) is roughly 15 minutes (the 45 minute puppet show is made up of three stories). Stories available for hand puppet shows include: The Three Wishes, Pink Riding Hood, The Frog Prince, The Monster and the Baby, and The City Mouse and The Country Mouse. Stories available for shadow puppets include: The Boy Who Cried Wolf, Wiley and the Hairy man, and Strength.
Contact Name: Paul Vandivort
Address: 4821 Milentz Ave, St. Louis 63116
Phone: 314-620-7927
Email: paulspuppets@gmail.com
Performance Fee Range: $200-$350 plus travel
Technical Requirements:
Must be able to dim or turn off the lights for shadow performance. Ask presenters to supply one six foot long table.
Availability: Year-round.
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Puppetry
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Peter Allen and Debbie Lutzky Allen have been performing and teaching puppetry for over thirty years. Their live performances, featuring
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Peter Allen and Debbie Lutzky Allen have been performing and teaching puppetry for over thirty years. Their live performances, featuring hand puppets, marionettes and shadow puppets, inspire audience involvement and enthusiastic participation. The performance styles range from gentle (nursery rhymes and tales for young children and their families) to lively family fun (GEORGE AND THE DRAGON and THE AMAZING MYSTO’S MAGIC SHOW.) Other shows include CIRCUS, THE PIED PIPER, CHICKEN AND PIGS AND BEARS…OH MY! and special shows for Halloween and Christmas. Their new PUNCH AND JUDY show is just the thing for outdoor festivals and performances for family audiences! DISCOVER SHADOW PUPPETRY!, a performance/workshop, is also new this year. Family audiences enjoy creating and performing with their own shadow puppets. , In 2019, Parasol Puppets was awarded a Citation of Excellence Award by UNIMA-USA that recognizes and reward the best of the puppetry arts in this country.
Contact Name: Debbie Lutzky Allen
Address: 32529 State Hwy F, Jamesport 64648-8259
Phone: 660-684-6825
Email: dlpallen@grm.net
Performance Fee Range: $300-$3000
Technical Requirements:
Eight foot square floor space, minimum ceiling height of 8 feet, electric outlet for our lighting and sound equipment.
Availability: Year-round.
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Music
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Since his arrival to Kansas City from Santiago, Chile in 1996 Pablo Sanhueza has dedicated the past 20+ years of
Place Description: Since his arrival to Kansas City from Santiago, Chile in 1996 Pablo Sanhueza has dedicated the past 20+ years of his distinguished career to the music of the Latin American experience, as a percussionist, bandleader, and educator who has worked with three generations of musicians.
Pablo brings the charisma and precision of the Maestros of the Mambo and Big Band era. Sanhueza studied with Jesus Alfonso, Sandy Perez, (Muñequitos de matanzas), and has shared the stage with Poncho Sanchez, David Valentin, Titos Sompa, and toured Europe appearing at Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland, Red Sea Jazz Festival in Holland and Champs Elysees Paris, France.
In 2018, Sanhueza co-founded the Kansas City Latin Jazz Orchestra. KCLJO is the first performance & education non-profit in the Midwestern United States dedicated to Salsa, Latin Jazz, and the intersection of Latin American folkloric dance. KCLJO is an intercultural, intergenerational organization, bringing transnational experiences to the stage, the dance floor, and diverse communities.
Contact Name: Ms Cynthia Ammerman
Address: 2117 E. 39th Street, Kansas City, MO 64109
Phone: (816) 529-2681
Email: cynthia.ammerman@gmail.com
Performance Fee Range: $1,000.00 to $4,500.00
Technical Requirements:
Technical requirements to be determined for each engagement. Accessibility to electricity. For outdoor events shade coverage when necessary.
Availability: Year-round.
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Music
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Ozark Mountain Oysters is an acoustic blues, country, rock, bluegrass band. As two seasoned musicians with many years on the
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Ozark Mountain Oysters is an acoustic blues, country, rock, bluegrass band. As two seasoned musicians with many years on the road opening and playing with major entertainers around the country. The Band plays Blues, Country, R%R, R&B, and Soul music. The band represented the Lake of the Ozarks Blues Society at the International Blues Challenge in Memphis in the years of 2013 and 2014.
Contact Name: John Evans
Address: PO Box 4351, Waynesville 65583
Phone: 816-699-7042
Email: blindwilly1@embarqmail.com
Performance Fee Range: $300-$1000
Technical Requirements:
If we set up our own P.A. we need a couple hours of set up time. If we use a house P.A. with the host providing a sound technician we need 15 to 20 minutes to set up our personal gear.
Availability: Year-round.
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