What we need from the venue
Stage footprint, dedicated circuits, channel counts, load-in times and volume, at every size from solo to quartet, plus the DJ. Written to be forwarded to the venue. Includes the six things worth confirming at contract.
For Planners
an Easy, Clear plan, before you need it.
Every vendor you hire represents your reputation. Below are some questions and answers to the ones we've been asked so far.
Run of show templates
A gala, a wedding and a holiday party, timed to the minute, with the band’s rows filled in and a cue owner against every moment. Take them and change the times.
The full question list
Personnel and substitutions, deposits and payment terms, set and break lengths, microphones for speeches, decibel caps, who chooses the songs. Two dozen answers, none of them about price.
How a booking works
Nine steps from the first email to the last invoice, with what we need from you at each one and how long it takes. Three of the rows need anything from you at all.
Loudness Limits
Colorado’s statewide decibel caps, the 2025 Supreme Court ruling that can void a town sound permit, and what Aspen, Telluride, Breckenridge, Steamboat and Vail each enforce. Cited and dated.
The song book
The catalog and six curated sets, one for each shape a night takes. What gets played during arrival, through dinner, at the turn, on the floor and at last call.
What live music costs in this market, sourced figure by figure, is on the pricing page, along with how a quote is put together and what moves a number.
Vendor file
What your venue is going to ask for.
All five, without a phone call. Forward this section if that is faster.
- Certificate of insurance
- On request, and without one: a COI naming your venue as additional insured arrives in the same email as the contract, along with a W-9 and one itemised invoice. If the venue needs specific wording or a specific additional insured, send it and it comes back correct the first time.
- General liability
- Carried at the limits most Colorado venues write into their vendor requirements. Send us the pair yours asks for and we will confirm it against the policy before you commit to a date; the certificate itself shows the numbers.
- A written contract
- Every booking. It names the date, the venue, the configuration, the hours, the total and the payment schedule. A deposit holds the date, the balance falls due 14 days out, and payment is ACH, check or card through Stripe, all at no fee. Approved corporate accounts run on net-30 instead, invoiced after the event. Cancellation and refund terms are written into it rather than referred to, so your client is not signing a document that points at a policy nobody has read.
- One point of contact
- A named person, given to you in writing before the event and reachable from load-in to load-out. They are in the building all night, and the number you have is the one that answers. How that works, and how substitutions are handled
- Sound included
- Sound sized to the venue, at every configuration, itemized in the invoice. Load-in, setup, strike and load-out are included. Stage lighting and a dedicated engineer are optional add-ons, quoted as their own line when you want them. Stage footprints, power draw and load-in times
The figure you forward to your client is the figure they sign. What the wider market charges, sourced, is on the pricing page.
Three things you can rely on
- A named contact, given to you in writing before the event and reachable throughout it. Their number is in your phone before load-in, and it answers until load-out. Who that is, and how substitutions work
- Certificate of insurance naming the venue, W-9 and one itemised invoice, in the same email as the contract. What else is included
- The number you forward is the number your client signs. What it costs
Unbundling is normal
If you want your own ceremony musician, or a marquee DJ you already trust, and us only for the dance floor, that's a booking we're still happy to help with. Assemble the night your way and bring us in for the part where we fit. Where it makes sense to book us across more of it the reason is arithmetic, and it is on the pricing page where you can check it.
How long have you been around?
Signet opened this year. The musicians on its stages have spent ten and twenty years playing events like the ones you produce, and we are glad to put résumés in front of you. For a planner meeting us for the first time, everything on this page is built to make that first time easy, and to make it checkable.