[Dixielandjazz] Senior Center & Retirement Home Gigs

[tcashwigg at aol.com]

Someone needs to educate the State Mandaters that if they are going to 
Mandate things that costs money to produce and provide then they must 
also provide the funding to pay for them,  it should be in their 
Performing arts Budgets, and not just in the administrators salaries :))


Go Give 'em some Hell Ginny:))   Tell 'em to SHOW YOU THE MONEY.    
There is a program here that I am very well aware of that gets a 
$50,000.00 a year budget up front and it pays their director a $35,000. 
salary and the rest is spent at about $50.00 a musician to go out and 
perform what the program was granted for in the first place, to provide 
employment for musicians.   Program administrators however are much 
higher skilled and paid, especially this one who is the girl friend of 
the executive director of the organization who draws a 90,000.00 salary 
for his administration job.   But hey it's a Non profit organization so 
why should a musician make a profit from it  or even expenses,?   They 
should be happy to DONATE THEIR SERVICES TO THE GOOD CAUSE.   YEAH 
RIGHT.

Cheers,

Tom

-----Original Message-----
From: Gluetje1 at aol.com
To: barbonestreet at earthlink.net; dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
Sent: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 7:54 PM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Senior Center & Retirement Home Gigs


Thanks, Steve, Helpful information.  Just guessing that maybe within  
an 80
mile radius of St. Louis there are a half-dozen or so CCRC's with 
entrance
fees.  Have more experience with area Assisted Living Facilities and 
Care
Centers (Nursing Homes).  One that I have spoken with in past couple of 
 weeks
from
a nice, but not plush facility, told me her monthly budget was  $300.  
These 2
levels of care are under new state mandates in MO to  show a certain 
number
of entertainment events.  So if the activity director  blows all or 
most of
that $300 on one group, one occasion, she is really under  the gun to 
find the
freebie acts for about 7 more outside entertainment events  in a 
monthly
schedule.
Ginny


In a message dated 12/29/2006 8:37:15 P.M. Central Standard Time,
barbonestreet at earthlink.net writes:

Luckily,  Barbone Street Performs in the Pennsylvania/New 
Jersey/Delaware
area and  there are about 100 CCRC's (Continuing Care Retirement 
Centers)
within 80  miles of my house. These are Independent Living facilities.

These are  upscale retirement complexes that charge from $80,000 to 
$300,000
as an  entrance fee, and then about $3000-$5000 a month for 3 meals 
etc. They
also  provide medical care when residents get sick, have activities 
etc. Kind
of  like a college atmosphere for old folks in good health when they  
enter.

Most have entertainment budgets. The lowest being $1200 a month,  the 
highest
being about $4000 a month.

They like 1 hour concerts.  And 3 hours on holidays like Memorial Day, 
July
4, Mardi Gras,  etc.

My minimum fee for a one hour shot is at a small facility close by  is 
$125
per man. My maximum fees go well into 4 figures for those  holidays.

We play at several that have $1200 monthly budgets and out  $750 min 
uses a
big chunk of that. But because they like us, they pay it.  Or, if they 
have a
resident's association, the association chips  in.




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