Arkansas Jazz Orchestra

Call Us: 501-324-9150
Visit Us: 1100 North Street, Little Rock, AR 72201

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.

Arkansas Jazz Orchestra

Bill Halbrook

(870) 403-7718 Email Bill Website

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The most exciting musical experience around awaits you in the sounds of the Arkansas Jazz Orchestra. Some of the most versatile musicians in any part of the country are ready to give you a concert that will have you on the edge of your seat. Drawing music from some of the greatest jazz names of yesteryear such as Basie, Ellington, Kenton, Herman, Rich and many others, this organization will mesmerize you with subtlety and then knock your socks off. But it doesn't stop there. The AJO also plays hits from current artists and composers. These new hits include the some of the toughest and most heart-pounding arrangements to come along in decades. You've got to hear them to believe them.

Requirements

15 chairs, 2 electrical outlets.

Fee: Base pay of $2,500 within 90 miles of Hot Springs. Between 90 & 120 miles from Hot Springs, base pay is $2800. For performances over 120 miles from Hot Springs add $10/mile. AJO performance time is limited to 1 hour and 40 minutes with one 20 minute intermission.