Venues

There are few venues in Tavistock and the surrounding area, they are all either too small or too expensive to hire. We could hire out The Wharf, Tavistock Town Hall, Tavistock Rugby Club, Tavistock Cricket Club or Tavistock College School Hall. There are three examples below or the most suitable venues in the surrounding area.

Local Venues

- The Main Hall

•The Main Hall would be a seated event and it can seat about .... people is there is not enough seating for the audience there is space to put more chairs in. It has been used on many occasions for performances, dance showcases and cabarets.

•The main hall is within the college so there would be no age limit to the audience, no cost for travel for the musicians and also there is good wheelchair access to this venue.

•As all college performances are shown within The main hall there is a good PA system and a lighting rig this means that we are able to put on a good show with all the right equipment.

•An advantage of the gig being in the Main Hall is that we can use Mr.Tucker who is the sound/lighting engineer for the school this means that we will not have to pay to hire a private engineer.

•The only disadvantage of using the main hall is that apart from around the college there is not as much chance for promotion within the wider and local community for example. people that are not parents or have anything to do with the school.

•The Main Hall would have no fee so we would make a profit for the ensembles by charging the audience for entry we would charge around about £3 for an adult and £2 for a child.

- Tavistock Town Hall

•The hall makes for a superb performance venue with an adequate stage which also has an extension if needed. For a seated event it can hold 220 seated guests and for a standing event there is space for 400+ people. We would use the seated event so 220 would be a good amount of chairs so there is only a slight possibility of running out of seats.

•This is the town hall in the dead centre of Tavistock the venue is very sophisticated so it would be an amazing atmosphere for our gig to be performed in. As it is in the centre of Tavistock it would be good for promotion to the wider community of Tavistock.

•There would also be no travel costs for the musicians as it is in walking distance from the college. Although there could be possible costs for bringing equipment over in a car as it probably couldn't be carried over.

•There is a possible age limit for this venue as it is quite a sophisticated venue so it would not be as good for parents with younger children this diminishes our wider audience.

•To have a performance in this venue it would cost around about £330 to hire out the venue for a performance this is quite a lot on a college budget. There is also to take into account that we would have to bring our own PA system and there is not a lighting rig so there would not be a good chance for effects during the performance.

•The cost would mean that we would have to charge about £2 for a ticket to be able to pay for the venue but in order to make an adequate profit we would have to charge around about £3 for a child and £4 for an adult this is quite a lot if you consider that parents are coming to the gig that could have more than one child.

•For this event we would probably not have to hire a sound/lighting engineer as the technology in the Town hall does not need an expert so could be done by the ensemble.

- The Wharf 

•The wharf is able to either to have a seated event or a standing event. in the standing event you have a seating area at the back with a standing area at the front in this case it can seat 76 people and the standing area can stand 300+ people, in the seated event you can seat 157 people. I think as we are appealing to an audience of students parents who will possibly bring their children and also to students within the school. I think it would be better to use the seated event but this means that we are only able to have 157 people in the audience so there is a possibility of not having enough seats.

• The wharf is a local popular venue that hosts a lot of music ensembles of a wide range. This venue is well known throughout Tavistock so would be a good place promote our gig to the wider community it would also bring in people to the gig that didn't have any connection to the school.

•The wharf is very close to the college so it would be in within walking distance to get to the wharf so there would be no travel costs to take into consideration.

•As they already host music events they have a very good PA system and lighting rig. The lighting in the wharf would be especially good for our gig as they can use loads of different lights that they already have in place.

•There is also not age limit which is good for adults bringing younger children. There is also wheelchair access into this event.

•In this venue we would most likely have to hire a sound/lighting engineer this would cost about £175 pounds an hour so it would be expensive.

•The venue will cost about £450 on a week night, and £550 on a weekend.

•This means that we will have to charge around between £625 and £725 to pay for the event and for the technician, if we wanted to make a profit we would have to charge about £4 for an adult and £2.50 for a child.

We have chosen to do our gig in The Main Hall of the college because there was no travel costs, no age limit, no fee to use the venue as it is within the college and also no fee for a technician. There is also the advantage that students from the college will attend to support the music ensembles involving the other students this means that we will have a younger audience and this is a good thing as this is the round about target audience we were going for for our set list. This meant that it was the best option to use as it was free this mean't that we could make a profit without having to charge the audience very much for their ticket which meant that it would be more available for people to attend.