Thank you for your interest in hosting the Luther College Symphony Orchestra in your community.

Please email the Symphony Orchestra tour manager, Susan Potvin, or call at 563-387-1267 about available dates. We are booking now for travel in March 2022. 

HOSTING THE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

(Some of the items below are negotiable. Contact Susan with questions.)

Space/equipment needs:

• Large performance space (48 x 35 ft)
• 3 large dressing rooms
• 1 or 2 private dressing rooms
• 1 large gathering space for pre-concert talk
• Grand piano, tuned the week of the concert
• Handheld microphone and stand for the conductor
• 60 stands, 75 chairs, podium and music stand

On-site volunteer needs:

• Volunteers to provide a pre-concert meal
• Volunteers to provide homestays
• Publicity helpers (hanging posters, promoting concert through community and church networks)
• 2-4 ushers for greeting concert goers and collecting donations and/or tickets

Housing:

• Homestays for 70-75 student musicians, usually in groups of 2-4; if a host can take a larger group, wonderful!

Homestay hosts provide:

• Post-concert snack
• Sleeping accommodations
• Breakfast
• Transportation from venue to their house, and back to the motorcoach the next morning

Meal:

• Concert host provides a pre-concert meal for 80 student musicians, leaders, and bus drivers. The tour manager can provide meal suggestions that are inexpensive, easy, and healthy.

Promotion:

• Hang posters about the concert in prominent places (Luther College will provide the posters).
• Promote concert on your organization's social media sites by sharing content created by Luther College.
• Let the tour manager know if there are any media organizations Luther should contact about articles and/or advertisements.
• Engage in word-of-mouth promotion. Get people excited!

Luther College provides:

• Concert promotion in high schools and churches within a 30-40 mile radius.
• Direct concert promotion to high school students interested in Luther and Luther College alumni and friends within a 30-mile radius.
• Help in finding area homestays and volunteers if needed.
• Social media marketing and promotion.
• Talented student musicians and an opportunity to bring your community together for a wonderful concert!