About Simon Says Booking
Personal Service for Professional Musicians
Our Mission
To work as a strategic career growth partner to promote the vision of our artists and venues. To work together with our clients to create a path to success, never compromising our foundational values of honesty, integrity, family, personal service, and love of music.
Our Pledge
We offer personal service based on a mutual belief in our client’s vision. We fill rooms and calendars through efficient and effective booking services. We act as a strategic career growth partner. Working together, we climb to the next level and beyond.
Our History
Simon Says Booking began in Oregon back in the early 1990s and went through several incarnations, landing in Western Massachusetts in 2002. Over the years, Simon Says Booking has represented some of the finest talent around the United States including past and present clients such as John Kadlecik (Darkstar Orchestra, Furthur, Phil Lesh and Friends), Max Creek, Adam Ezra Group, Start Making Sense, 10,000 Maniacs, Third World, The Skatalites, Bernie Worrell Orchestra, David Nelson Band, Cabinet, and many more, booking tens of thousands of shows.
In 2012, the Venue Management Department was launched with the programming and publicity for the Stone Church in Newmarket NH, which continues into 2015.
Publicity support, social media management, newsletter, and poster management are all additional services being offered through our Publicity Department. Publicity clients have included the Mighty High Mount Festivals, Wormtown festivals, Max Creek, Deadbeat, Golden Gate Wingmen, John Kadlecik, Girls Guns and Glory, Big Leg Emma, and many others.
Prove It!
Our wide reach and vast network of personal contacts, in tandem with proven systems that bring together booking, promotion and distribution, combine to create a solid and dynamic platform for robust sales and artists’ career development. Our targeted guidance and strategic vision is based on 20+ years of music industry experience and an adherence to the Simon Says values of honesty, integrity, family, personalized service, and a deep love of music. We are intimately connected to our artists’ daily activities, we identify with their struggles, and we share in their vision, all which enables us to develop a specific and individualized plan for their development and success.
Simon Says Booking handles thousands of gigs a year all over the country. Our proven track record for developing bands and helping to bring them to the next level, while never compromising the artist’s or the agency’s vision, has created a far-reaching Simon Says family. We push beyond the traditional agent-client relationship, forging even more meaningful bonds, which ultimately contribute to the bottom – line of success for all.
