The "10 Saturdays Tour" of 2005

Here's the basic idea for the tour:

1) Goals (What's in it for you):
a. Have the opportunity to expand your fan base to cities that you normally wouldn't travel to (Don't know a booking agent? Can't get a club interested in booking you? Too financially expensive to travel?).
b. Sell more of your music to people who actually value music.
c. Team up with like-minded musicians throughout the world that are a part of Tribe.net (There's so much silly competition among musicians that the few people that are teaming up to do shows are starting to do well). In other words, use Tribe.net to create something positive out in the real world.
d. Work toward making this a profitable event.
e. First two years: Advertise before and after the show to attract local and national attention. We need a good story ("Tribe.net bands unite throughout the world to bring indy music to your hometown"), lots of pictures, and good follow-up with local media.

2) We need 10 musician/organizers for a 10-city tour. You don't have to live in a big city to be part of this tour.
a. Each musician/organizer should be well known in the city and have a conservative draw of 50-100 people.
b. Musician/organizer should be familiar with the owners/booking agent of a local venue so that they can negotiate a solid deal for their tour stop upfront.
c. These musician/organizers will be in charge of all local advertising and marketing (including the cost to do so).
d. We'll coordinate national/international ad information and graphics to give the tour a cohesive look and then send the files (tell us what format you need) so that you can customize them for your market.

3) Show schedule and lineup:
a. 10 Saturdays (11 June 2005 through 13 August 2005)
b. Opening act: One band from the previous city (45 minute set)
c. 2nd act: One “full tour” tag musician/band that travels to each of the 10 cities (45 minute set).
d. 3rd act: Optional local band (45 minute set)
e. Main act: Local musician/organizer (remainder of the night)

4) Money:
a. 40% of guarantee or door to the musician/organizer and the remainder split evenly between the other 2 or 3 acts
b. Will this show be profitable? It probably won’t even breakeven in the first year. That’s part of the investment in advertising to get your name out there to folks who don’t know you and helping others to do the same.
c. When we’ve done this successfully for one or two years, we’ll then have the leverage to attract sponsors to make this a profitable event.

Your thoughts?