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BOOKING: Check the booking calendar below for availability before requesting a performance date. We are now booking Fridays and Saturdays. Make sure to study the booking requirements below as well. Generally speaking, we are not booking concert performances for days other than Friday and Saturday evenings. We book a wide variety of genres, and favor folk, jazz, blues, and world music. We give first preference to original music. Tribute, or cover bands are rarely booked. Contact booking manager, Greg Gaughan at greg@jameyshouseofmusic.com for booking. Please do not call for bookings or leave messages on Facebook as they will be overlooked.
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We get many requests from agencies and independent touring groups that have no local fan base or name recognition and are unable to draw a reasonable audience, therefore we only book groups that can guarantee a minimum draw. This is a cooperative effort. We rely on you to work to bring people in the door, and we will provide you with a unparalleled place to perform your music. We look for openers to guarantee a 10 seat draw, co-bills to draw 20 each, headliners 30 seats, and solo acts to draw 40 minimum. If fewer than 10 tickets have been sold two days before the date of the performance, we reserve the right to cancel the show, and refund advance sales, although we rarely will do so. We do not often have opening acts for logistical reasons. If you are a booking agent, we expect that you will not overexpose your act in this market. For example, we recommend a 1 month/30 mile lockout when routing, unless it is a big name with big draw potential. This is a serious listening room, and we operate on slim margins, so we can not afford an empty room. If you are seeking exposure in a new market, try some of the music bars in the region instead.
If you have booked a show and fail to generate good ticket sales, it is expected that you will honor your committment to perform. Our reputation is on the line as well as yours. Our audiences expect consistency, and we do not like to fill scheduling holes at the last minute, or worse, have to close for the night. We rarely rebook an act that cancels without good cause. Thank you for your professionalism. In more than a decade, we have only had to cancel one show for an internal emergency. We love a full house as much as you do. We do not have a built in audience, so it is important that you or your publicist independently publicize your show to ensure a good turn-out. We operate on a tiny to non-existent margin and do not have an advertising budget. We hope that you take it upon yourself to promote to your fans. Our commitment is to provide a great place for you to play, and do what we can to promote to our extensive mailing list and FaceBook followers.
Please contact booking manager, Greg Gaughan at greg@jameyshouseofmusic.com for booking. As you can imagine, we are deluged with requests from around the world. Please be patient when making submissions. We are very selective and take our time when filling dates. We will contact you only if we will offer a date. Please submit CD or music URL's such as YouTube videos, EPK, website URL along with local venues played, current regional bookings with pending dates, requested dates and an estimated draw.
Once a date has been confirmed, we need copy for the show listing and a high res image for our promotion right away. If we do not receive timely materials, we will harvest the internet for info to post, and will not revise the listing subsequently.
Please follow that up with an input list, and one poster sent to our mailing address above. Again, we will only contact you or your agent if offering a date. We don't need a contract to proceed unless you insist on one. We prefer to proceed on an honor basis, to show the respect and trust that has largely disappeared from the music business. Again, once we have confirmed a date, we will need links to promo material, info specific to your booking with us, and input list and a poster if available to promote your show. It's never too early to begin your publicity push. Note: We will create a Facebook event and add you as a cohost. Please don't create your own separate event. We book up to a year in advance but only post shows one to two months out. Remember, we have a full backline, so you can travel light.
Here are links to a high res downloadable text logo and a high res downloadable image logo. Here is a link to our media list for promotion.
Our compensation structure for Friday and Saturday concerts is a flat 70% of the gate from dollar one, and no cap (and 100% merchandise sales) against a $100 minimum guarantee. We do not penalize for less than expected draws. Co-bills split the draw. Openers are paid a flat $50 deducted from the draw. Payout is made at the end of the evening by check. Minimum advance ticket prices run between $20 to $30. We will price tickets in coordination with the act. Higher ticket prices and higher minimum guarantees are negotiated for national touring name acts. Pay-per-view ticket revenue is split 50%. Please note that all terms and prices are subject to change without notice.
There is never a cover charge for the Thursday Night Jazz Jam, or the Sunday Blues Brunch, but there is a $5 food/drink minimum.
A maximum of 4 comps are available for headliners and co-bills. The press is always free. Volunteers and interns are always free. (NOTE: There are no comps available while we are at limited capacity due to Covid.)
This is an award winning, artist friendly room. We have 100% positive feedback from our performers and guests, and garner great reviews from the press. We go out of our way to make your evening a showcase event of the highest caliber. so you can sound your best, have fun and connect intimately with your audience. We re-book groups based on the overall quality of the show, audience response and turnout. We are an ASCAP, SESAC and BMI licensed venue. If you are unfamiliar with our layout, you may take a virtual tour on Facebook.
Attention guitarists! I know you love the sound of your single coils - all raw and chimey, but you won't like them at Jamey's. Especially with all your expensive pedals. We are located adjacent to high voltage transmission line towers, and next door to a cell tower - so be prepared if you play single coil pickup instruments, especially with a compressor pedal and an amp with a high gain first tube stage, for an annoying warbling noise due to the high EF/EMF/RF interference. It's nasty, but tolerable in some cases. There is no effective way to shield from it, as it is well within the near field of the lines. Flipping the phase on one pickup may help a little - but those coils are ideal antennas as you will see. We have installed lower gain NOS mil grade first stage tubes in our amps, which helps with noise at the expense of "crunch." Fender guitars with stock pickups are notorious offenders. P90's are just as bad. If you play an instrument with true humbuckers, stacks or split coils, this will not be an issue. I recommend highly that you also consider sheilding the pickup and control cavity of all your guitars with copper foil tape that is grounded to the common ground at the jack. It will work wonders. Caveat emptor!
Here is a list of acts presented by Jamey's (with many appearing multiple times):
Laura Cheadle Band
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TECHNICAL: Jamey's House of Music, LLC d.b.a. Jamey's House of Music
Venue physical address: 32 S Lansdowne Ave Lansdowne PA 19050 The property is commercially zoned in the central business district
Mailing address for CDs, press kits and posters: 5841 Overbrook Ave Philadelphia PA 19131
215-477-9985 (also good for day of show tech contact) 215-879-1457 Fax jamey@jameyshouseofmusic.com Contact: Jamey Reilly
Load-in time: 5:30 to 6:30pm Sound-check time: 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm Dinner service: 6:00 pm + Show time: 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm Kitchen closes: 9:30 pm Venue closes: 11:00 pm
Set Format - Solo act: one 90 to 120 minute max set (no intermission) Co-bills: one 45 to 60 minute max set each (no intermission) Opener: one 30 minute set / Headliner: one 90 minute set (no intermission) No Intermission due to video broadcast
Note: Show video stream begins precisely at 8:00 pm whether or not you are on stage. Performance length cannot exceed 2 hours total due to the live streaming time limit. A 5 minute courtesy call will be given via intercom.
No attendant for CD sales / signing.
General admission seating.
Capacity: 60 venue total at dining tables. (subject to covid capacity limits)
Performance Format: Concert style listening during dinner service.
Band parking available for one vehicle at rear of venue by load in door. Additional parking in adjacent lots.
Equipment load-in through the stage door at rear.
This is a non-smoking, over 21 venue, under 21 must be accompanied by parent. Wheelchair accessible via rear entrance, 1 handicap parking spot. Ring bell for access.
Contracts: We usually proceed on a verbal agreement, but will sign your contract if provided as long as it complies with our policies. In either case, please provide a stage plot or tech rider. We've built our good reputaion on trust... and it works both ways! Please don't cancel an engagement once it's confirmed, unless it is for an emergency. Our patrons expect us to live up to our billings. We are licensed and insured.
Stage: 13' wide by 11' deep, 10" rise. Stage left access from green room. No legs, wings, backstage or curtain.
Green Room: WiFi available. Heated and air conditioned. No private bathroom. Equipment/personal items lockup available, no lock on green room. Furnished with tables, chairs, sofa, full length mirror, privacy screen. Access from load-in door in private load-in area at rear of building. 24 hour video surveillance in operation.
Hospitality/meals: We do not accommodate hospitality rider requests, dietary restrictions or meal buy-outs. We offer a 50% discount on all food and beverages.
Accommodations: We do not arrange, or pay for hotel accommodations or transportation. The closest hotels are 4 to 5 miles away at the Philadelphia airport.
Back Line: Bass amplifier is upstage left, drums are upstage center, guitar amps are upstage right, keyboard is downstage left, and main vocal mic is downstage center. We have a top-of-the-line Nord Stage 2, 88 key weighted action keyboard, a dual manual Hammond XK-5 organ with 3300 leslie, and very high end 4250 watt custom built active 4 way bass rig with a 21", 2 - 12", 2 - 8" and 2 bullet tweeters, Crest big iron amplification and a highly modified Demeter tube preamp, and a tube rolled Fender Blues Deluxe, tube rolled Fender Vibrolux Reverb, Fender '64 Princeton Reverb Handwired reissue, Mark DV Jazz, and Peavey Bandit 112 amps onstage, and Fender 15" Bassman, Genz Benz Shuttle 6.0 or Bergantino Forte with 2-12" cabs, and custom built 2-8" with Sans Amp pre and QSC amp available for use if needed.
The drum kit is a craftsman hand made premium quality drum kit by Bucks County Drums with DW hardware and Zildjian cymbals. These gorgeous hand made custom drums have tone like nothing else out there. The unique shells are a patented innovation. They are comprised of a very thin maple/ash 6 ply shell which is fused to an inner solid mahogany wood shell in a vertical grain orientation, and a ground breaking edge profile. The result is astounding... drummers can now achieve a solid wood tonality yielding superb sound qualities, wide tuning range and stable tuning, minus all the negative overtones associated with some modern shells, and also minus the drawbacks of solid wood drums. The shells are finished in a satin hand rubbed black ebony veneer with single point chrome fittings and single ply Evans 360 heads. Of course, no kit would be complete without a DW 9120M heavy duty motorcycle seat throne!
Video: Sony 3 CCD high definition robotic camera with PTZ control, HD SDI feed to BlackMagic Design 4K video capture including embedded stereo sound sub feed from board with comp/limiters, recorded to Blackmagic full uncompressed HD SSD recorder for a tapeless workflow, and live broadcast stream via vMix HD to your streaming provider. We also use a Sony handheld/tripod mount HDV video cam and Nikon still camera. Our editing is performed in Nuendo and Premiere.
We do band YouTube promotional video/audio recording and production for $125/hour. All you need is your instruments and we provide the full backline, stage, lighting, multitrack audio and one camera recording and the private use of our venue, with or without your invited guests. A second camera is $75/hour extra. We can provide you with raw files or a fully mixed and produced video ready for upload to your band pages. Kitchen service is optional at $100/hour including the chef. Full menu available at listed prices, including draft ales and ciders, wines.
Lighting: (8) Par 56 white LED lighting fixtures. Single scene, RGB LED color stage wash, 8 par 65 color gel accent lights rigged on trussing, green/red laser light room wash, follow spot, black lights, strobe lights and fog machine.
Sound: Midas Venice F 32 channel board, dedicated Xeon processor based workstation with 128 GB RAM and terabytes of storage and a 24 channel Lynx Aurora N convertor, running 64 bit Nuendo 11 for 24 track live recording up to 192 kHz/24 bit, and Wavelab 10 for mastering. Lexicon PC92 stereo reverb, Lexicon MX400 and MX300 reverbs. TC Electronic stereo rhythm delay. Alesis master disk recorder. 24 channels of dbx and Drawmer compressor/limiters on mic inputs, and on all 8 outputs and groups. 8 channels of dbx noise gates. Stereo mains with transformer coupled dbx program bus comp/limiters/line drivers. Klark Teknik Graphic EQ on the mains and DOD Graphics on the 4 monitor sends. dbx feedback suppression on the mains and 4 monitor sends. QSC two way 15" stereo mains double stack, with 2 JBL 18" subs - per side. 4 monitor mixes with 2 JBL 12" front wedges and 2 JBL 15" side fills. 2 hot spot monitors available on separate feeds as well. 2 Shure professional wireless in ear monitoring systems are available as well. Full selection of Sennheiser wireless, Shure, Sennheiser and AKG dynamic, Neumann and Shure condenser mics, assorted quality direct boxes and straight mic stands or assorted boom stands We have a few music and guitar stands.
Sound is engineered by Jamey Reilly, who has decades of professional experience in international pro-touring FOH Sound and road management with major groups ranging from Aerosmith to Frank Zappa, large and small venue management, theater sound reinforcement design and installation, recording studio engineering/producing/consulting, and high-end pro-audio equipment engineering design including mixing consoles, microphones, loudspeakers, preamplifiers, amplifiers, noise reduction, signal processors, filters and equalizers. Jamey has designed equipment that has toured with some of the biggest names in music like Bonnie Raitt and Emmylou Harris, gone to the top of Mount Everest (and won an Emmy Award for CBS) and even into outer space. Jamey also plays bass guitar. You'll love the way you sound. Jamey has been booking and promoting shows for decades.
All live performances are (up to 24 live track) multi-track recorded off our Midas board via Nuendo 11 for archive. Multitrack raw files are available to you via Dropbox for $75, or immediately after a show on microSD card for $100. We can also provide raw mp4 video files to you via Dropbox for $75. An audio and video files deal costs a flat $100.
We have the ability to do private session 24 bit/192 kHz quality (up to 16 live input) multi-track session recording, with high end state of the art tube and solid-state preamps from D.W. Fearn, Amek Neve, Neve Designs, API, and Reilly Design with premium quality studio mics from Neumann, Telefunken, Sennheiser, AKG, Crowley and Tripp and Schoeps. We use a dedicated Xeon processor based workstation running Nuendo 11 and WaveLab 10 with Lynx Aurora converters, with Waves, Lexicon, Antares, Izotope and assorted other plug-ins.
COMMON QUESTIONS ANSWERED: Are you wheelchair accessible?: Yes, we are fully accessible, with a rear door entrance ramp, ADA compliant restroom and an accommodating seating area for listening and dining. Do you sell alcohol?: Yes. We sell ales on tap from Crooked Eye Brewery, hard ciders and Pennsylvania wines and spirits. We are no longer a BYOB. Do you give refunds?: Only if we cancel a show. Do I need advance tickets?: No, but it provides a discounted price, and you might be turned away if the show is sold out. Can you accommodate my food allergies?: Possibly. Get in touch ahead of time. Do you sell takeout?: Yes. Can I bring children?: Only if they are old enough to sit still and not bother other listeners. You decide. In general you must be 21 to enter without an adult. Is there free parking?: Yes, the SEPTA lots next to us do not charge in the evenings, and some people park in the ALDI lot behind us. Can I take pictures or videos with my cell phone?: Always ask the performers for permission. We don't have a fixed policy. Can I reserve seats?: No, it is open seating. Can I eat at my seat?: Yes! We have tables and chairs in the listening area allowing you to enjoy your dinner and drinks as you watch the music. Do you rent your space for private events?: Yes. We occasionally rent out for select private events, along with our own staff. Contact us.
