The information provided below is courtesy The Juggling Gypsy and is designed to provide you with more detailed information regarding the venue set up. Please adhere to all booking agreements provided by A. Warner Entertainment for any night you are booked through A. Warner Entertainment.
About the Gypsy:
The Juggling Gypsy is
an intimate performance artists' hideout, expressing creativity in a "highly
participatory" environment.
The Juggling Gypsy is an alternative arts venue, listening room, exploratory
theatrish lab...And even "the
Venue for those with no Venue"...a sort of breaking ground, trying ground,
experimental “weigh station” for
local bands getting started, established bands' members in new projects, and
experimental side projects from both categories, and also troupes or bands
"making it/made it/or staying out of it", who long for the intimate
stage, or need to experiment...And of course, a safe-haven stop-through for
regional, national and even
international acts of all kinds.
We have an indoor
seating of apx 50-60 tight when
tables can be removed fo live acts. The interior changes weekly, so we actually
hold various capacity. We have a large outdoor patio with a Geodesic dome, and
outside front yard, patio, roof top, large parking lot area, and any number of
outside avenues for interesting opportunities for performance shows of all kinds
with various capacities over 100. Several larger acts have performed on
an outside stage, with unlimited capacity, which we can apply for all necessary
public assemblage
permits, noise permits, etc, with advance notice,& measures taken to ensure all
audience members paying cover.
We are a performance cafe, bar, eatery and hookah den. The art that is performed
here is off-center, strange, and generally fringe. We have a weekly schedule of
performances which range from Capoiera Jams, Open Music jams, Fire Throwers,
Belly Dancers, circus artists, jugglers, magic, certainly lots of live music,
and of course, and everything a traditional music venue is not.
Our general pay rate, therefore, is also nontraditional. As a performers' venue~
Started, operated, and
owned by performers, we understand and relate to quandaries you may have about
playing for the arts fringe. We cannot pay artists up front at their demanded
general fees at this point. IF this does not interest you, read no further.
Our pay to artists is in most cases, a door cover arrangement and an extensive
cooperation/marketing
system: That is, although we cannot afford to pay what most venues may or may
not be willing to offer, we do provide a wild assortment of offerings that may
be of interest to traveling artists such as yourselves.
We offer a great venue for exposure to new fans, name recognition to an
ever-increasing e-list of currently about 1500 addresses in the greater
Wilmington area, Promotion in the Music listings of the major entertainment
magazines in the greater Wilmington area, A street team on hand to distribute
flyers on the two Major College campuses in Wilmington, website listing on ours
and reciprocal sites affiliated with us, & a referral/ in-depth database
provided to our arriving acts, detailing contact names and numbers of every
major press, TV, Internet and several radio organizations in the area in order
to assist you in co-marketing your show.
And chances are, if you use the promo info, you will get press.
We have attracted national and international touring acts of almost every genre
of performance art.
The stranger your
performance is, the better we like it. But you can be normal too…
Also, We offer 100 different beers, and offer unlimited $2 beers to bands, and
food!!! Many beers are quality
micros, and the food is vegetarian, vegan, carnivorous, and huge. We are almost
always able to arrange accommodations within our grass-roots network for bands
traveling long-distances with advance notice whenever possible. Note, this
doesn't mean we put the acts up in hotels. By grass roots, we mean couches/guest
rooms/even floor space - whatever it takes to keep the touring acts rolling.
Most commonly, this is arranged by a simple announcement to staff and regulars
during the night of show.
The Juggling Gypsy is a performance venue for the alternative & fringe arts,
operated and owned by
like-minded artists. Whether or not you decide to play here, do stop by the most
unique place in town. If you are interested in performing at the Gypsy, either
using us as your only destination in town...as a
stopping point between routes, or in addition to other Venues booked in
Wilmington, we can assure you a unique experience, a great time, and a whole new
demographically eclectic potential future fan base.
Thank you for your interest in performing at the infamous Juggling Gypsy through
on Monday night through A. Warner Entertainment!