Your entertainment budget dollar goes a long way with Rhythm Weavers Drumcircles. Far more than a single performance, Rhythm Weavers will host Drumcircles throughout your event on a mutually-agreed schedule.

Our services include:

1. Drums and/or hand percussion instruments for participants, including rental, shipping arrangements, unpacking, and repacking. Quantity of drums can range from 50 to hundreds, depending on size of event.
   
   
2. A Rhythm Weavers team of 3 or more for Drumcircle set-up, facilitation, and maintenance throughout your event. This includes:
   
   • Chair positioning
     
   • Crowd welcoming
     
   • MC / introduction role
     
   • Instrument distribution
     
   • Drumming instruction and group drumming facilitation
     
   • Musical support on bass drum(s)
     
   • Incidental litter pick-up between circles
     
   • General care of Rhythm Tent space
     
     
3. Facilitated Drumcircles beginning on each scheduled hour. Drumcircles last 40 +/- 10 minutes, depending on crowd size and energy level, which varies with day and time of day.
   
   
4. Exchange of ideas about Drumcircle tent/venue naming, promotion and sponsorship possibilities during Festival planning stages to best serve Festival mission and goals. (The name “Rhythm Tent” used here is only an example.)
   
   
5. Verbal (MC) acknowledgement of Festival Sponsors or support of Mission message, as coordinated with Festival staff.
   
   
6. Logistical, location, and scheduling collaboration with Festival staff to assure the best synergy for all nearby entertainment acts and vendors.
   
   
7. An exciting, participatory musical experience for hundreds or thousands of fair-goers of all ages. Plus smiles, hand-claps and toe-taps for an equal number of spectators.

We work hard – or rather PLAY hard – in support of your Festival’s or Fair’s mission!

After each circle, the facilitators will answer questions, sell drums, and secure the circle. The Rhythm Tent will close until the next scheduled session to allow for food and water breaks for the facilitators.

The following items and services provided by the Festival / Fair organization will best assure successful Drumcircle operation and experiences for participants.

• Drumcircle Location

  Outdoors: Rhythm Tent

  • 50’x50’ canopy / tent
    
  • 80-100 folding chairs
    
  • One 6’ or 8’ table
    
  • Adjacent to high foot-traffic corridor that draws people in with the compelling drumbeat. Rhythm Weavers will help consult regarding optimum locations for your fairgrounds.
    
  • Lighting under tent if Drumcircles are scheduled into the evenings.
    
  • If the event is for multiple days, a secure and weather-proof storage area to hold the drums overnight. A 10’ x 10’ tent with lockable fence or walls will work.

  Indoors: Rhythm Room

  • Approximate room dimensions: 50’ x 50’ or larger
    
  • The more square the room, the better. Long and narrow is more difficult.
    
  • 80-100 folding chairs
    
  • One 6’ or 8’ table
    
  • Room lockable for overnight drum storage

• Public Address system (voice only) powerful enough to cover Rhythm Tent / Room space, including wireless lavaliere or headset mic. Rhythm Weavers can supply its own PA system for additional rental charge.
  
  
• Rhythm Tent Posters and Program publicity showing Drumcircle starting time schedule (to be determined with Festival staff).
  
  
• Lots of drinking water for the facilitators throughout the event.
  
  
• Any permissions / licenses / fees / etc. needed for Rhythm Weavers to sell drums and t-shirts at the Rhythm Tent.
  
  
• Secure storage of drums before the beginning of the Festival / Fair.
  
  
• Delivery of the drums to the Rhythm Tent or Rhythm Room during setup time for the Festival.
  
  
• Storage of drum shipping boxes for the duration of the event
  
  
• Re-delivery of shipping boxes to Drumcircle location for re-packing when Festival is over. Pick-up for shipping when Rhythm Weavers finish re-packing.

Rhythm Weavers will work with Festival Organizers to design and quote the best package of services appropriate for your event.

We will also work with you to tap your local business sponsorship base to offer enhanced win-win sponsorship package opportunities (see below).

Typically, Rhythm Weavers’ Festival / Fair quote includes the following fees and expenses:

1. Travel expenses to your location for 3 facilitators
   
   
2. Per diem for 2 hotel rooms, plus meals for 3 facilitators
   
   
3. Drum rental of 50 – 200 drums, depending on the size of your event.
   
   
4. Actual costs of shipping drums to and from your location. Return shipping costs will be reduced by the number of drums that we sell during the Festival
   
   
5. Daily fee for Rhythm Weavers team of 3 or more to oversee Rhythm Tent / Room space and facilitate Drumcircles according to Festival schedule. Varies with size of event, number of days, and number of sessions per day.

 Overall, the cost of Rhythm Weavers Drumcircles is mere pennies per smile!
Enhanced opportunity for Sponsors: Teambuilding event + Sponsorship benefits

Rhythm Weavers can help create a multi-dimensional sponsorship benefit package for your potential corporate sponsors for the Rhythm Tent.

In addition to the public relations benefits sponsors will realize by having their name on this exciting and engaging, family-friendly stage, Rhythm Weavers can also deliver a high-quality teambuilding or experiential training event for a sponsoring company’s staff during the week before or after the Festival.

This type of combined teambuilding and sponsorship package delivers higher value to your corporate sponsors, and helps assure full coverage of all Drumcircle costs in you Festival budget.

Call or email to make plans to add the family-oriented excitement of Rhythm Weavers Drumcircles to your Festival or Fair, and maximize the benefits to both your and your Sponsors’ organizations.

janabroder@yahoo.com

813-361-4667