Spa City Stompers

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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.

Spa City Stompers

Clyde Pound

(501) 226-3050 Email Clyde

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The sound of the Spa City Stompers Jazz Band harkens back to dimly-lit speakeasies of the roaring 1920s and long-forgotten gramophones playing crackling 87s. With the band’s hot rhythms and sweet melodies, audiences find the glamour, mystery, and the excitement of the Jazz Age.

The Spa City Stompers is a traditional-style Dixieland band that plays the great jazz standards of Jellyroll Morton, Louie Armstrong, and many others, with emphasis on tunes from the 1920s and 1930s. The band was formed in 2014 and has played at local and regional venues all around Arkansas. In addition to their regular jazz performances, the band has also performed for churches, playing church hymns in Dixieland style.

Directed by co-band leaders Clyde Pound on keyboards and George “Doc” Ryan on trumpet, the Spa City Stompers bring together experienced Dixieland musicians from throughout central Arkansas. The musical strength of the band lies in its creative arrangements and effective use of dynamics. While serious about Dixieland jazz, the Spa City Stompers also combine good jazz with good times—encouraging fun, sing-a-longs, and dancing.