General Festival guidelines

 - Artist, will prepare a musical show with a running time between 30 and 38 minutes.  

-Show must have live accompaniment (no recorded tracks). 

-Artist is responsible for providing their own accompanist. Seattle Cabaret Festival is happy to provide a list of referrals. 

-Show must be a musical performance with patter or storytelling recommended no more then 8 minutes or less for Artist 30 to 38-minute show. 

-Show must be memorized. No music stands or cheat sheets onstage for featured vocalists. 

-Accompanying musicians may use music. 

-Each SCF artist/act will perform their 30-38 minute show twice during the festival run.

-Each SCF artist/act will be assigned two showtimes, usually on two different dates. Assigned showtimes and dates are at SCF discretion. However, conflicts and availabilities specified in the submission form will be reasonably accommodated as much as possible.  

-Each SCF showtime will present shows by two different SCF artist/acts and will be hosted by an SCF host. Artist/act pairings are at discretion of SCF Creative Team based on artistic and technical considerations.  

-Compensation: Artists will receive 90% of shared ticket sales per show.

 -SCF producers will promote all SCF show dates via poster and postcard distribution, SCF mailing list, press releases to local media, and social media. 

-SCF producers will provide postcards to SCF artists and will mail up to 50 postcards if provided by artist their contacts.

-SCF artists are expected to promote their own show dates (mailing lists, social media, etc.)

-We recommend  that artists  do not schedule other solo shows within 4 weeks before or after their SCF festival dates as we believe that this will severely affect their show attendance.