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Booker Baker

I am here for Networking

About Me

I'm a concert promoter and musician.

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This is my booking site. I'm limiting my friend list to bands, promoters, venues, radio stations, & record labels.

My Blog

Concert with Mountain Community Fellowship - Paintsville

I'm in the process right now of looking for bands from the area around Paintsville KY.  I need a few bands from there to play a one day festival with Mountain Community Fellowship in Paintsville....
Posted by on Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:37:00 GMT

The Baker kids at the Bach Festival

This past weekend was the 2nd annual JS Bach Festival/Marathon at a church in Lexington.  I try to take my children as often as possible to see and hear really good performing art, so the three B...
Posted by on Mon, 26 Mar 2007 08:26:00 GMT

The non rained-out festival.

This past weekend was the 27th annual Festival of the Horse.  I've been going to this Festival since I was a little boy since it is held in my hometown, but this was my first year for booking the...
Posted by on Mon, 25 Sep 2006 05:08:00 GMT

A Thousand Dreams - A Booking Nightmare

I was on the website of a venue in Ohio yesterday, and I saw where the booking/sound guy (who is a friend of mine) wrote that over 250 bands have played there this year.  So I thought about all t...
Posted by on Wed, 30 Aug 2006 06:48:00 GMT

Music tied to events and my emotions

I can remember certain events that happened in my life because of music.  For some reason music that I was listening to during a certain time period will always remind me of that event or time pe...
Posted by on Thu, 10 Aug 2006 08:38:00 GMT

Rice and Tea

I guess this is my first non-booking related blog.  This one is about food. Today I brought a small container of plain white rice with me to work.  Well, plain as in Short Grain Nishiki Whi...
Posted by on Thu, 13 Jul 2006 08:51:00 GMT

Can you take the punches and persevere?

When you're new at something, everything is fun.  But after you've been at it for a while, it starts to be a bit of a burden.  It's at that point that you decide whether you can persevere or...
Posted by on Tue, 11 Jul 2006 06:47:00 GMT

A band keyed my truck

On Thursday night, a screamo band from Columbus Ohio played Upbeat Cafe, and the next morning I realized that someone had keyed my truck.  The band was mad at me, and expressed themselves verball...
Posted by on Mon, 26 Jun 2006 06:06:00 GMT

The Booking Bug only has to bite once.

This past weekend I worked Ichthus for the first time.  It was incredible!  I started working on the Edge Stage bands for 2006 Ichthus back in October 2005.  In that time I made countle...
Posted by on Thu, 22 Jun 2006 07:49:00 GMT

I gave up sleep for you!

I like to sleep.  I can fall asleep really easily.  I'm not narcoleptic or anything (like my friend who I call Johnny Narcolepsy), I've just got a very light stess load, and having peace lik...
Posted by on Thu, 11 May 2006 09:45:00 GMT