Performance Logistics

This event operates on a very tight schedule. It is absolutely critical that your acts start on time, and there will be a stage manager (Vincent Miresse) who ensures that everyone keeps on schedule. Bottom line is that if a performer(s) starts late, they cut their performance time short rather than pushing the overall event schedule.

All performers need to have their gear loaded into the venue through the back entrance no less than 1 hour before their performance. You also have the option of loading your gear into the venue before the day event starts (before 7pm on Friday and before Noon on Saturday)

Venue Address

Visual Arts Collective
1419 Grove Street
Boise, ID 83702
208-424-8297
Mapquest Link

If your performance requires a lot of time consuming gear setup (such as a drum set, complex racks and board, etc), you should load your gear into the venue and setup as much as much of your gear as possible before your performance to ease the transition between sets.

There will be two stage areas at the venue (A and B). A is on the left from the audience perspective, and B is on the right. These stages will be on the left as festival attendees enter the venue. The back of the venue, where you load in, is on the West side of the venue, closest to Stage A.

ABSOLUTELY IMPORTANT: You have a total of 30 minutes to setup your gear and conduct a SILENT sound-check. 15 minutes into the performance before you, you will start setting up on the adjacent stage. After the prior performance is complete, you will have another 15 minutes to complete your setup during the Intermission act.

There will not be a person running sound for this event, rather there will be a mixer board along side each stage and a sound support person will help you route your instruments to the board and handle any critical issues that occur during your performance. It is HIGHLY recommended that if you have a complicated setup, that you bring your own mixer, setup as if you are performing live with that mixer and setup, sound check via headphones, and then route your mixer output to the main stage mixer.

In short, this is a seamless series of performances, and it is important that you are ready to perform at the time the scheduled indicates that your performance begins.