The Inn Ringers

Stef Johnson – Secretary

42 Lowell Drive, Weston Coyney, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffs. ST3 5RX

Tel: 01782 326125

e-mail:theinnringers@hotmail.com

The Inn Ringers Booking Information

Thank you for your enquiry regarding The Inn Ringers.

This information pack should answer all your questions regarding our concerts as well as providing you with some background information on the team.

There is a booking form attached along with a biography of the team and a selection of photographs. Please fell free to use any of the information provided to promote and advertise you concert.

General Information

• Our concert fee is £50.00. Expenses are charged only in exceptional circumstances for example, if the distance travelled to the concert venue is excessive, the booking is for a professional organisation or there is a lengthy pre-concert rehearsal period.

• We have produced our own concert programmes to at all our concerts. They contain details on the team, details of the pieces we propose to perform, a selection of photographs and other information. The charge we make for the programmes only covers our production costs; they help to promote the team as much as possible. If you have any objections to us selling these programmes please let us know. We have no objections to your organisation producing your own programmes to sell at the concert and you may use any of the information provided in the pack.

• We will also have CD’s for sale, again if you have any objection to us selling these items please let us know.

• A full Inn Ringers concert usually consists of two 45 minute sessions with one interval of 15-20 minutes.

• We have a publicity board which you may wish to use to display at the venue to promote your concert a week or so prior to the event. The board carries details on the team as well as a range of photographs. It provides people who have never been to a handbell concert before with some idea of what to expect. The availability depends on the number of concerts we have at any given time and your location. In any event the board will be on display for the evening of the concert.

• We transport the bells and all the equipment by car and trailer. Could you please arrange for us to park as close the venue as possible for unloading and reloading the trailer.

• We require at least 30 minutes before a concert to unload all the bells and equipment and to set everything up for the concert. It will take us the same amount of time to pack everything away at the end of the concert.

• Once the tables and bells have been set up they must remain in position for the duration of the concert.

• The most important point of all – with the tables set up and the ringers standing behind them, we need a minimum area of 22feet by 12 feet. The tables have to set up as illustrated in the diagram below. It is impossible for us to set the tables up away in any other way in order to ring. Please make sure you take a tape measure and check you have sufficient space available for us to perform. It is very embarrassing to arrive at a venue only to find there is not enough space for us to set up a give a concert.

22 Feet

12

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Conductor

Please return the attached booking form to the team secretary at the address printed at the top of the form. Once we receive your completed booking form it will be given careful consideration, we need to ensure that every member of the team is available for the date of your concert. There is space on the form for you to provide us with an alternative date – it will speed up the process if you can provide us with a second date to consider.

Finally we hope you enjoy our concert as much as we will enjoy playing for you.

Thank You

The Inn Ringers.