Runaway Planet

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.

Runaway Planet

Steve Brauer

(501) 259-6392 Email Steve Website

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Founded in 2001, Little Rock bluegrass band Runaway Planet evolved out of a longtime friendship between members and a passion for traditional string band music. Drawing from traditional influences like Bill Monroe and Flatt & Scruggs as well as progressive influences like The Seldom Scene and New Grass Revival, the band has been compared to Yonder Mountain String Band, The Avett Brothers, Old Crow Medicine Show and The Del McCoury Band. Runaway Planet's music is currently receiving airplay throughout the United States and several different countries through the support of community & public radio programming as well as internet radio stations like Pandora and Rhapsody. Their music is a mix of hard driving bluegrass, three-part harmonies, complex arrangements, and original songs. With an ever-growing performance schedule, Runaway Planet is winning over new fans from traditional bluegrass lovers to younger fans new to the genre.

Here is a link to an AETN performance: On the Front Row with Runaway Planet

Fee: $1000 - $2000 for performances in central Arkansas, $2,500 - $3,000 if travel/lodging required. Trio, duo and solo options also available upon request. All ages.