Wes Dorethy and Larry McGrath

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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.

Wes Dorethy and Larry McGrath

Larry McGrath

(870) 404-4430 / (870) 492-4431 FAX Email Larry Website

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Two creative singer-songwriters with different musical pasts came together by happenstance and realized they play a varied and eclectic combination of music that listeners al all ages enjoy and relate to. They play mostly originals with their version of cover songs thrown in. Larry McGrath, on vocals and guitar, was fortunate to grow up listening to the great blues artists live in small intimate clubs in Chicago. He has recorded at Sun Studios in Memphis, and played on the Chitlin Circuit, on Beale Street, and at the Peabody Hotel for many years. Wes Dorethy on vocals, guitar, harmonica, keyboards, violin, and mandola is a next-generation multi-instrumentalist with a great voice. Recently releasing his second CD, We Only Burn So Long, Wes has previously played all over the US and Europe, including the Gulfport Music Fest and The House of Blues.

Requirements

Sound system, if larger venue

Fee: $600 if sound system with at least 3 microphones and 6 xlr inputs is provided and $1,000 if we provide sound system; 2 rooms lodging if more than 100 miles from Mountain Home.