WE THANK YOU
FOR YOUR
INTEREST IN OUR
VENUE AND DO
REQUEST YOU
FOLLOW THESE
INSTRUCTIONS...

PLEASE SEND A
PRESS KIT WITH
COVER LETTER OR
A SHORT NOTE TO:

Soul Infusion Music Booking
P.O. Box 1055
Dillsboro, NC 28725-1055

YOU MAY ALSO E-MAIL
YOUR QUESTIONS
AND/OR FOLLOW-UP:

booking at soulinfusion.com

Just type in the address
replacing the word "at"
with @ without spaces.
We hate spam, so we don't
have a direct link to email.

WE ASK THAT YOU
PLEASE, DO NOT CALL
UNLESS YOU HAVE
ALREADY DONE AT LEAST
ONE OF THE ABOVE FIRST,
THANK YOU FOR
RESPECTING THIS
SMALL REQUEST!

Artists are welcome to drop off a press kit or CD in person at Soul Infusion at any time.

All booking decisions are made by Jason Kimenker, proprietor, with an occasional nudge from his wife, hospitality director and co-proprietor, Karin.

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ADDITIONAL PROMOTIONAL HELP LISTED BELOW
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Here's some background information about our venue:

MUSIC VENUE:
Our tea house and bistro is a SMALL, comfortable and intimate music venue. We are in an historic 1930s Main Street home, a small farm house with an Oak barn-wood fence (90% recycled old barn-wood) surrounding an open-air music garden. Our capacity inside is 50 and our outside music garden holds 150. Combined we can support over 200 guests. We've been open since June 2001. One year later, summer of 2002 was our first experience with an outside stage (constructed almost entirely with recycled wood and built organically, over time). Our outdoor stage is covered, but only available weather permitting from around the end of April to the beginning of October. We have music inside in our living room in the event of bad weather and during the cooler months. Many incredible, intimate shows have been performed in our living room. Some of our regulars actually prefer seeing musicians in the smaller space, and performers have also enjoyed playing the room, so we always give artists the option of playing inside even during nicer weather.

Currently we host live music at Soul Infusion on Friday and Saturday evenings with Thursdays added during the summer months. Traveling musicians are welcome to come in on any Tuesday or Wednesday night to pick up a set, jam with other musicians, or just hang out.

AREA GEOGRAPHY:
We are located in a 1930s farm house in SYLVA, a small mountain town in western North Carolina in the Great Smoky Mountains. The population here is as diverse as it is Bohemian. About five thousand live here (give or take a few) and we are right smack dab in the middle of the Natahala National Forest in the center of the southeastern United States. Atlanta is just a 2 1/2 hour drive south of us, Asheville is just 45 minutes to our east, Knoxville, TN and Winston-Salem, NC are both about 2 hours, and Cherokee, the entrance to the Great Smoky Mountain National Park, and the Blue Ridge Parkway are just 20 minutes fom our front door. Here in the mountains, we live and play true to the roots of Appalacian culture. Our small family friendly music venue hosts a variety of talents from all over the United States. From Portland, Oregon to Boston, Massachusetts the touring music acts playing in our venue are all roots-based, mostly acoustic oriented (we do stray off this one occasionally) and are all a part of our family now.

Our music venue is located at 628 East Main Street (which is also known as NC 107 or Highway 107) in Sylva, North Carolina between Sylva Tire and UPS. We are set back from the road a little bit, so look for our SOUL INFUSION sign (wrapped in red rope lights) and the bright red 1955 Chevy pick-up truck parked out by the road (an old hand-crafted locust post fence seperates the '55 Chevy from the road). Oh, and park in the back of the house (closest to our main entrance and load-in area) if you can find a spot, otherwise anywhere in front of the house is fine.

About the proprietors of Soul Infusion Tea House & Bistro:

Jason is Resident Philosopher, Tea Purveyor, Ordained Minister, Community Promoter, Music Director, Loving Husband and all around nice guy. Soul Infusion's promotion, community outreach, music and entertainment booking is handled through Jason. He considers Soul Infusion to be a grand experience (or maybe experiment) in theology, philosophy, sociology, anthropology and some sort of musicology. Quantum physics probably falls in there somewhere. He enjoys experiencing all kinds of music, from all parts of the globe. He loves multi-dimensional music rooted from the heart and soul.

Karin is the Head Resturanteur, Divine Female, Resident Psychologist, and Executive Chef here at Soul Infusion. Before undertaking on this tea house and bistro project, Karin worked in the mental health profession also had her own catering company. She specialized in concert and festival catering, backstage hospitality and event planning. Her degree is in Psychology, yet her passion has always been food with a focus on feeding people (and their soul).

She has catered for hundreds of performers including some very memorable meals including: Snake Oil Medicine Show, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, The Larry Keel Experience, Tater, Soundtribe Sector 9, and even Run DMC and Sir Mix-A-Lot. She will definately make sure you're well fed and energized for your performance.

Musicians eat compliments of the house on their performance evenings, and each performer gets a reasonable number of complimentary drinks. Other payments and guarantees are negotiable and should be discussed ahead of performance date.

Promotional Assistance

We are a Home Grown Music Network Venue Best bands. Kindest venues.

As a member of the Home Grown Music Network we are connected to a network of incredibly talented musicians, other kind venues and worthy promotors, and a large distribution network for kind music fans to get their musical fixes. We will always help fellow kind musicians promote their music through this network, and all that we ask is that you help us promote Soul Infusion (and its basic concepts) to other musicians, their friends and family, and your friends and family. Together, we can help promote KIND MUSIC and KIND PEOPLE, and make this world just a little nicer for everyone.

Music is a universal language. We are all artists here.
Peace through music. Live in harmony.

A partial list of musicians and bands who have performed at Soul Infusion since 2001.

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FULL SIZED LOGO! (922 x 674 pixels, 280k download) camera ready print

SMALL BUTTON (80 x 60 pixles, 19k download) for website use only

Media / Press Contacts:
In order of our recommendations for promotion (e-mails coming soon...)

WNCW Best darn radio station on the planet!
Mountain Xpress attn: Arts & Entertainment Editor
Smoky Mountain News attn: Arts & Entertainment Editor
Asheville Citizen-Times attn: Tony Kiss, Entertainment Editor
The Sylva Herald attn: News Editor
The Guide attn: Arts & Entertainment Editor

Music Databases
We also highly recommend submitting info to these live music databases:

Music Forums / Message Boards
And while you're at it, check out these websites' message forums:

Bluegrass Jam.net
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