Lagniappe

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Arts On Tour

The Arts on Tour roster lists a broad spectrum of Arkansas’s finest solo and ensemble performers, individual visual artists and prepared art exhibitions ready for touring within Arkansas. The online AOT listing facilitates the booking process for arts organizations, festival and event planners, schools, civic organizations and government entities interested in contracting with the artists.

The AOT program is designed to reimburse presenters who showcase Arkansas artists listed on the roster. When an AOT artist negotiates a contract with the presenter, the Arkansas Arts Council typically will subsidize 40 percent of the cost of the event as long as funds are available.

New AOT artists are selected each year through a panel process.

Apply For The Arts On Tour Artist Roster

Applications to join the roster are closed until fall 2025.

To be eligible for the Arts on Tour Program, a performing or visual artist must:

Maintain a primary residency in Arkansas, or must have an Arkansas based contact.
Have presented concerts, exhibitions, programs or lecture-demonstrations in locations away from their home location at least twice in the previous year. Exhibitions must have been presented in a formal gallery space.

The Arkansas Arts Council reserves the right to determine the appropriateness of the scope or nature of the presentation proposed by a selected Arts on Tour artist and retains the right to determine the suitability of an AOT artist to remain on the roster once they have been selected.

Arts on Tour Artist Roster application forms should be submitted online by completing the form linked below. You will receive an email confirmation when we have received your online submission.

Lagniappe

Dave Hoffpauir

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Lagniappe means a little something extra, and the group Lagniappe conveys heartfelt soulfulness in every note they play. Matters of the heart and soul are the essence of great music, and they perform timeless R & B classics by Aretha Franklin, Etta James, Al Green, the Staple Singers, Irma Thomas, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gay, and many more. Led by the lovely and talented Genine “Miss Poetry” Perez, Lagniappe features guitar virtuoso Ben Harris, the ever-funky Jay Gentry on electric and upright bass, and rock-solid drummer Dave Hoffpauir. This versatile trio can play refined instrumental jazz standards for a classy ambience or they can fill the dance floor with funky jazz fusion. Adding the extensive soul, R & B, Motown, and Blues repertoire of Miss Perez is indeed “something extra.”

Requirements

PA/sound equipment as needed; stage to fit event with covering for band

Fee: $2,500-$8,000 depending on distance and size of group. Travel and separate lodging for band beyond 150 miles from Little Rock; food with no pork and warm bottled water for soloist; food and beverage for band if performances beyond 150 miles; horn section is extra.