Organising a steelies meeting...tips

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Organising a steelies meeting...tips

Postby JohnDavisStringsHere » Sat May 04, 2013 4:48 pm

Heres a thread I bet everyone will have an opinion about.... but having done it myself for the last 5 or is it 6 years and gone from strength to strength I feel qualified to give some advice :D .....

I was dissapointed to see Digbys show cancelled but I can also understand it as I found it quite expensive when I went down with the Diesel alone cost about £70 and then you have to eat..... plus admission...
Most steelies are poverty stricken :censored: d`s and I think £10 is about as much as you can get away with charging if you want the thing to grow..... and also attract good players that will play for zilch....

Another thing I learned on my watch was people that drive for four hours (or so) to get there deserve at least half an hour to play, to make it worth their while coming....
A good raffle will always help pay for the hall and there are enough willing or rich members to beg a few prize`s from.

I thought David`s meeting was very good for a first effort but It really deserved a bigger hall , I am sure more would have come if they were certain of getting in???

All of the above is just MHO, not having a go at anyone... just thinking out loud if anyone else is thinking of organising anything?????



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Re: Organising a steelies meeting...tips

Postby Tony Russell Davis » Mon May 13, 2013 12:22 pm

Absolutely John.
The travel costs are a particular concern and it's partly for that reason that Digby and I started up the North of England Steel Guitar Festival. Details will be posted as they crop up but here's the website link - http://www.chanos-isgf.org/NESGF/index.html - shortly it will appear in it's own thread too.
We hope that running the thing up here in North Yorkshire will attract players that don't generally get the opportunity to meet other steel players without an extensive journey. Last year was the first one and there were quite a number booked in from far and wide. For example, Ron Kew (going to help organise this year) from the West and Donny Johnston from Scotland. There's a picture gallery of the 2012 festival, click the red button just below the photo of the village on the home page.Tony :D
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