Promotional Contacts / Info for Bugle Boy Performances:

 
Below is all the info you should need to promote your Bugle Boy show properly.  You should read carefully.  If you have a separate promoter, it is your responsibility to get the below listing to them.  The Bugle Boy has high expectations for you to promote this show.  We do not book future shows with artist that do not follow through with promotions.
  
FYI- The Bugle Boy is a true listening room with fabulous acoustics.  Most artist that have never been here before, fail to understand that promoting the sound quality of this room, along with the no smoking  environment truly helps to draw a bigger out of area audience.

 
MINIMAL PROMOTION REQUESTED:
I will need you to send me 5 posters and  1 CD  directly to The Bugle Boy.  If you have handbills, please send a minimum of 20.  I will also need you to email me a 5-10 sentence blurb  and a .jpg that I can post on our website.  Please send no later than 12 weeks prior to your scheduled show.  Note: If you are a returning artist, you do not need to send the CD unless you have a new release that you are promoting.

BLURB Suggestions by Derek Sivers of CD BABY: A SHORT DESCRIPTION - 10 SECONDS OR LESS
Most of the world has never heard your music. Most of the world WON'T hear your music, unless you do a good job describing it. It's like a Hollywood screenplay. You not only have to write a great screenplay, but you have to have a great description of it that you can say in 10 seconds or less, in order to catch people's attention. Find a way to describe your music that would catch anyone's attention, AND describe it accurately. No use coming up with a funny description of your music if it doesn't actually describe what you really sound like!
 

Please note:   Any posters that you mail to me must have all pertinent  information listed on them.  I do not fill out artist posters.

 

ADDITIONAL PROMOTIONS RECOMMENDED

You may send additional Posters to:

von Schaden's '80 PROOF' Music
712 Lyons Avenue   
Schulenburg, TX 78956.  (1 poster)


Round Top Chamber of Commerce:
Attn: Cathy Chalupka    P.O. Box 216   Round Top, Texas 78954   ( 2  posters  )

Smithville Chamber of Commerce:

Attn:  Adena Lewis   100 N.W. 1st St.  Smithville, Texas  78957  ( 2  posters  )

Houston KPFT/ Blueshound   2719 22nd ave. N.   Texas City, TX 77590
(2 posters, 1 CD , & handbills )

Before mailing your posters you must fill them out with the following  information: 

Concert Day /Date:
Time:   8-10pm
Place:  The Bugle Boy / La Grange, Tx
BB web:  www.thebugleboy.com
BB phone:  979-968-9944

FYI- With artist permission we record the show and with further permission we will upload it to our podcast page (see contract).  You could promote this show as a live recording if you so choose.  Pete Sengler our sound engineer can make a copy for you at your request.  You can contact Pete

at pete@thebugleboy.com  if you have any questions regarding live recordings.

Below you will find email address to local papers that you can send  your press releases to.  Web addresses are listed for the Austin Chronicle Calendar as well as KUT Radio Events Listings. 
 

We recommend that you promote your Bugle Boy show  on any Texas radio  program that you are aired on.  Make sure you mention your Bugle Boy show as a great weekend destination in the small Texas town of La Grange.  Folks will drive from Houston, Austin, San Antonio and even Dallas to hear a performance in this room.  Many folks have said, "This is the best listening room in Texas". Overnight accommodations and restaurants are listed on our website.

 

PURCHASE ADS: (RECOMMENDED)

FAYETTE COUNTY RECORD  http://fayettecountyrecord.com/

email: fcrecord@cmaaccess.com

Note: They charge between $30-$60 depending on press release size.

If you have a good press photo and well written press release it is worth the expense.

That Little Paper  http://www.thatlittlepaper.com/

220 W. Colorado St.

La Grange, Texas 78945

Office Hours:  Monday-Friday 8:30 am to 5 pm
979-968-2080 Phone and 979-968-3909 fax

classifieds@thatlittlepaper.com

For $5.00 you can buy a classified Ad

( 12 Words + .20 xtra word)  Must be turned in by Friday to run the following week.

Sample:    Eliza Gilkyson

                Saturday, March 1st  8pm

                thebugleboy.com   979-968-9944

MEDIA
Please send your press releases to the below papers.

Austin Statesman /Xcellent

email a short press release to:  bestbets@statesman.com

(1-3 paragraphs with .jpg photo)

 

Country World News
Staff Writer
Monette Taylor | monette@cmaaccess.com

8728 FM 2145
LaGrange, Texas 78945
Phone: 979 • 249 • 2198
Toll Free: 877 • 825 • 7906
Fax: 979 • 249 • 2199

Smithville Times (Austin Statesman affiliate)
Publishes every Thursday.

http://www.statesman.com/news/content/customerservice/communitypapers/thesmithvilletimes.html

Mailing address:
P.O. Box 659, Smithville, TX 78957
Phone: (512) 237-4655
Fax: (512) 237-5443


Lost Pines Guide
(Publishes every every Thursday in the Bastrop Advertiser & the  Smithville Times)
Email a full press release with a high resolution color .jpg
to:  arts@bastropadvertiser.com

POB 459
Bastrop, Texas
78602
512-321-2557

Colorado County Citizen / Columbus, Texas
(www.coloradocountycitizen.com). The editor is Cindy Parkhurst
(editor@coloradocountycitizen.com). Phone is 979-732-2304.

 Weimar Mercury / Weimer, Texas
(www.weimarmercury.com).  weimar@weimarmercury.com
 979-725-9595

Banner -Extra
Attn: Hilary Morgan / zoeysturtle@yahoo.com
3351 Roger Rd., Brenham, Texas 77833 Y

The Banner-Extra is a free publication / circulation is 14,477.
printed on Mondays and published Thursdays.
You must send info 3 weeks in advance

Victoria Advocate
311 East Constitution
Victoria, Texas 77901
Becky Cooper:   planner@vicad.com
http://www.thevictoriaadvocate.com
361-575-1451

ONLINE CALENDARS

 

You should list your show on the following three calendars:

1. La Grange Chamber of Commerce:  Please keep your desriptions to 1-2 paragraphs.
http://lagrangetxcoc.weblinkconnect.com/CWT/External/WCPages/WCEvents/EventSubmission.aspx

2.  Austin Chronicle:    
http://www.austinchronicle.com/gbase/Calendar/index

3.  KUT Radio:    
http://events.publicbroadcasting.net/kut/events.eventsmain

4. Bastropia.com
http://www.bastropia.com/event-calendar/

TELEVISION
Austin FOX TV will often do a early morning interview. 
Contact Alyce  Kerr at   aly.kerr@foxtv.com    for interview / live performance request


RADIO

IMPORTANT:  You can get all radio station & press info from the Texas 
Music Office website at: http://www.governor.state.tx.us/divisions/music/directory/radio/radio.htm

 

(Note:  KTEX & Lone Star Radio will usually interview our artist by phone or in person. Their format is Texas Music, Country + Singer Songwriters)

KTEX-106.1 Brenham, TX / Country/Texas music 979.836.3655.
http://www.ktex.com/index.htm
Their Promo Director is Vicki Larado and she is very interested in ALL Bugle Boy performers.
They also have a community calendar  where you can list your BB show.  You can also email

Ken

Lone Star Radio- 104.7 -Victoria, Tx / 92.5 -College Station, TX/  
www.lonestarfm.com - 979.836.9411 - Fax is 979.836.9435 if you want to 
fax in shows/community events including LaGrange (Matt Mathews  is the 
Program Director...email is matt@lonestarfm.com


KGSR-FM 107.1 / http://www.kgsr.com/
Owner: Emmis / Sinclair
8309 North IH-35; Austin, TX 78753-5720
(512) 832-4000; (512) 390-5477; Fax (512) 908-4902
jdenberg[at]SPAMAWAYkgsr.com


KUT-FM 90.5 / http://www.kut.org/
Owner: University of Texas at Austin
1 University Station, Box A0704; Austin, TX 78712-1090
(512) 471-1631; (512) 471-2345; Fax (512) 471-3700
music[at]SPAMAWAYkut.org

KOOP in Austin / http://www.koop.org/    (512) 472-1369; (512) 
472-5667; Fax (512) 472-6149
outspoken[at]SPAMAWAYgrandecom.net

KPFT-FM 90.1  / http://www.kpft.org/
Owner: Pacifica Foundations
419 Lovett Blvd.; Houston, TX 77006
(713) 526-4000; (713) 526-5738; Fax (713) 526-5750
music[at]SPAMAWAYkpft.org

 

KEOS-FM 89.1 /  http://www.keos.org/   / College Station, Texas

Jimmy Roberts  debnjim@txcyber.com     
Jimmy is very supportive.

KSYM

San Antonio 90.1  FM

Contact Jim Beal   at ksym@accd.edu  put contact Jim Beal in the subject line.

www.ksym.org

210-733-2800