Good Neighbor Festivals has over a decade of experience in entertainment booking, promotion, and production. Coupling the aforementioned, we have proven expertise in producing the best possible lineup for your budget ensuring your festival is a success.  Each year we work with hundreds of artists, agents, and promoters to produce top talent successful events.  

Developing Successful Entertainment Lineups

Curating lineups can be as fun as it is challenging. Good Neighbor Festivals understands that booking artists to fill out festival lineups requires a number of working parts. Elements involved range from audience interaction and feedback on social-media, checking the availability of the artist and the negotiation process/contract with talent agencies, down to the vibe of your event you are looking to create. In general, it's not out of the ordinary to start booking a festival 6 months or more in advance to make sure you have the best possible lineup and production for your event. 

Secure Production (Stage, Lights, Sound)

Choosing the right production company for your event is a big decision and will reflect the day of show. Production sets the look for your event with staging, sound, lighting, banner advertising placement for your sponsors, and more.

Some questions you may have thought about when thinking about production: How many stages will you need? Will your event be at night and need lighting? Your basic needs.

But perhaps you didn’t think about: What is the legal decibel limit for the event? What size stage will you need based on the artists performing and their needs? What are the artists' dressing room requirements and backline needs? Where is the Front of House located and how far from the stage does it need to be? Where do you best place the Monitor Control center? 

We have expertise in handling all of this and will ensure that your event is running smoothly when gates open. Don’t pay a premium for mediocre production.

Negotiate Entertainment

Do you understand the stages of negotiating?

There are multiple steps in the negotiation process with artists when curating a successful lineup. The actual discussion of the artist's price is only a part of the process. Know when you are getting a good deal vs paying too much. Good Neighbor Festivals can do your negotiating for you to get you the best deals for top artists.

Deadlines, radius clauses, hospitality requirements, travel agendas, and more, all play a crucial role in this process. Don’t fall victim to an inflated artist guarantee, let us negotiate for you and coach you so you know when to sign or walk away from a deal.

Would you like to see the next up and coming emerging artists perform at your event? 

From start to finish Good Neighbor Festivals will identify artists that fit your festival’s vibe, secure the deal, process and handle the contracts, and manage the stage and artists onsite during your event.

On-Site Artist Management

What you do in preparation for your event in the weeks leading to it can determine everything on the day of. At Good Neighbor Festivals we will secure all artist stage plots, riders, and advance with artist managers to get you prepared ahead of the event so when it's showtime, it’s actually “showtime!”. We know how to effectively communicate between artist, production, security and event staff making sure everyone is one the same page. 

How do you avoid any day of hiccups at your event? 

Let us ensure your event stays on schedule by handling all proper communication with artists and crew on and off stage. We are experts at advancing artist backlines and keeping strict time slots.  We can manage late arrivals, production delays, inclement weather, etc. which can be a headache to deal with when you are trying to do a million other necessary things onsite. Let us solve your worries, so you can enjoy the show.