Welcome to our Booking Page. I’m sure you will have questions after reading our presentation below. Please contact Steve Darmody at 404-806-7479 or via email at steve@morningsong.org.
Morning Song's National Christmas Tour
WHO?
During the 2008 Christmas season, the annual Morning Song Christmas Tour wil be on the road for three weeks performing their highly aclaimed Christmas variety concert. This tour, which is in it’s ninth season, is filled with stirring solos, duets, trios, group songs and sing-a-longs. Morning Song Concerts has selected the following aritsts for this years tour, Angela Bryant-Brown, Steve Darmody, Jennifer LaMountain, and Rudy Micelli.
WHAT?
This two-hour variety concert is simply a delight. It consists of old and new Christmas songs, wardrobe changes, video segments, special lighting options where available, and even something for the kids. The four artists have successful solo touring ministries, but when put together the dynamic and charm of the evening is
WHY?
The Holiday season is a great time to offer a gift to your community. By having Morning Song provide a professionally produced and marketed concert, you have a wonderful gift to offer. Morning Song Concerts produces the 2 hour concert, manage the artists' travel and payments, provides top-shelp marketing tools, and acts as instructors and consultants for your volunteers. By using our full marketing package, you will save a tremendous amount of time and expense while getting top quality marketing tools.
This concert is an effective tool for Friendship Evangelism. Whether the concert is held in your church or in a performance hall, or whether you offer it free or sell tickets, we will work with you, as your consultants, to ensure that it is a success.
Just look back on last Christmas in your community and see how popular such events are during this season. Morning Song Concerts will provide for you a world class, professional event at low cost and a comparitively small investment of time.
WHEN?
The 2008 tour will run roughly from December 2 to December to 21. Our standard schedule is to have concerts on Saturday, Sunday, Tuesday, wednesday or Thursday evenings. But we are open to any date as long as our travel schedule allow time to reach each city on the tour.
HOW?
Morning Song Concerts, as an experienced marketing and advertising agency, will help you plan your local concert. We manage the off-site details such as working with the artists, scheduling travel plans, and designing and printing all the marketing tools. You may provide us with a list of volunteer staff who are free to communicate directly with us. If you are using a public venue, we will work directly with their staff, as needed.
As part of the Tour Package Fee, you are provided with a supply of posters, concert tickets, and in some years, postcards. Submit a plan for how much you plan to use, and you will receive your requested supply at no additional charge beyond the single Tour Package Fee (see below)! Our goal Is to make this the easiest concert you’ve ever promoted, with no surprise expenses that threaten to put you over budget.
Here are some links that show samples of the marketing tools we provide. Each tool is printed as a generic marketing piece that allows you to customize it easily. Concert Tickets • Concert Poster • Concert Postcards
Optional Design Projects as requested: Bulletin Inserts/Fliers • Union Magazine Ads • Newspaper Ads
We also provide another essential element for creating excitement about the concert. Morning Song builds a custom designed web site for every concert. The main Christmas Tour web site is www.MSChristmas.org. On your individual site we build for you, you will find your organizations name, your staff (with picture, if provided), your venue with directions, and contact information. When you combine this with the main web site filled with artist bios, music clips and videos you have a superb internet marketing tool.
Here are a few sample custom web sites of past Christmas concerts:
University of the Cumberlands - Williamsburg, KY
Christian Life Assembly Church - Camp Hill, VA
HOW MUCH?
Instead of billing actual expenses for each city, we have set a Tour Package Fee based on the day of the week you choose for your concert. There are no hidden or last minute expenses that will come from Morning Song. Since all the tour cities share the design and printing costs, the airfares are one extended roundtrip ticket, and the artists are offering reduced performance fees, you save significantly!
The Tour Package Fee covers most everything that is off site. Your one time Tour Package Fee include all artist fees, airfares, per diems, a personalized concert web site, as well as the design and printing of all the marketing tools. We also provide custom design upon requests, like bulletin inserts and fliers, or even highway billboards if you choose to rent one. It includes our consulting services to manage the tour event. We can provide radio interviews and complimentary radio CD giveaways, if requested by the stations. If you want or need something more from us, we’ll do our best to do it. It is our joy to partner with you in this wonderful Friendship Evangelism and public awareness opportunity for your church.
If you were to add up all the expenses of an equal, self promoted event, using four artists and all the marketing tools, etc., the cost would be significantly more than our Tour Package Fee. This is Morning Song’s offering to help your church reach out and shine during the holiday season. Why should other churches be the only ones providing a great Christmas evening of celebration. You can do the same! And Morning Song can help you with all the details. You can have a world class event at great savings.
Cost not covered in the Tour Package Fee that you would be responsible for include: the concert venue rental fee (if any), shipping costs for your PR materials, local advertising and motel lodging (two nights for four people - sometimes it is only one night depending on our schedule). You can often get the hotel rooms donated. We’ll teach you how!
We price our national tours this way because it is simple and clean. It eliminates confusion over final invoice amounts that may show unexpected costs. We have found, that if you will approach local organizations, colleges, businesses and/or hospitals, with a sample of our marketing tools and your plan to produce our concert in your community, that they will contributed significantly to the expenses of our event. They believe in innovative outreach and fiscal responsibility. The Tour Fee approach gives them the confidence that all the expenses are covered and the marketing tools provided. So don’t hesitate to contact them for help in raising your budget. Many local businesses love to invest in their local community as well. So we encourage you to request a Tour Sample Packet of past posters, tickets and more, and share this concept with others. Start building a donation/sponsorship connection.
Email us now to find out what the cost would be for your concert. Tell us if you are requesting a weekday, Saturday or Sunday evening concert.
