057: How to Select the Right Acts for Your Venue with Jefferson Arca
WellAttended: Event and Theatre Marketing / Promotion
Release Date: 07/31/2017
WellAttended: Event and Theatre Marketing / Promotion
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info_outlineJefferson Arca discusses how to select the right acts for your venue. He talks about how he finds acts to book, what makes a quality act, how he decides who to select to perform at the Clocktower Cabaret, and the types of deals you can make with performers.
Jefferson has done comedy, stage, and screen for the past thirty years, living in Los Angeles, NYC and Europe. During that time he appeared on “Breaking Bad”, did voice over work for the Walking Dead video game, and emceed Deschutes Brewery's National Beer-lesque Tour from 2013 - 2017.
He returned home to Denver in 2006 to own and run The Clocktower Cabaret, a nightclub in the historic D&F Tower. He produces live music, burlesque, drag shows, and comedy nights, and he has emceed and/or produced two to four shows a week there for the past eleven years. His character, Naughty Pierre, has become a Denver icon and can be found popping up all over town, in addition to his regular shows every Thursday at 8pm and Saturday at 11pm. If you are ever in the Denver area, I suggest going to see one of his shows to see how special they really are.
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