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Performers for Acker Night – 2025 terms & information.

            December 12, 2024 – 5:30 – 8:30 p.m.

All applications should be received by October 1st 

 

Dear Performer,
This is your invitation to perform for Acker Night, Friday December 12, 2025 5:30-8:30 p.m.
The goal of the non-profit “J.S. Acker Music Park Assoc” is to create a wonderful evening for everyone to enjoy while continuing to fund our local area youth music scholarships.

When you sign up, you agree to:
   •Volunteer your time and talent
   •ONLY collect tips for Acker Scholarships – no personal tips to be collected
   •Contact your assigned business to confirm the “match”
   •Set up, and remove your personal items needed for your performance
   •Neither the Acker Night Committee, nor the Business where you perform, is liable if your       personal items are lost or stolen.

Return the enclosed reply postcard NO LATER THAN October 15th, whether or not you can participate. Returning performers, please note if any information is new this year. For instance, if you changed your name – remind us what your former name was so we can keep our records accurate. We start matching response cards as soon as they come in so we can keep ahead of the deadline. If you make arrangements with a business on your own, we need to know immediately! For matching, we consider the size of performance area and genre of music requested by the business owner. You can request your favorite place to perform on the “Comment” line, and we’ll accommodate that if we are able to – however, no guarantees.

Note for larger groups (8 or more OR “extensive equipment/instruments): Most of our businesses are small and merchandized for Christmas making large groups harder to place. We locate as many places as possible that can accommodate larger acts, but we cannot promise that all will be placed.

Performers who request to play part-time: We allow part-time participation; however, unless you have a match with another part-timer, it is difficult for the Committee to accommodate this request. We take part-time requests into consideration after all full-time performers have been placed. If you are only able to perform 1 ½ hours, being flexible about which half will help you to be placed - at least 75% request the first half. Remember, all participating businesses want all 3 hours of music as Acker promises for their donation.

You will be notified in mid-November with the details of your business location and contact information. Because we cannot always depend on prompt U.S. Mail delivery, we strongly encourage you to contact your assigned business right away to confirm with each other.

Once again “tip bags” will be placed with each business owner for you to use to collect money for our Scholarship Funds. Please take time during your performance to promote the “tips for scholarships.” Leave the tips & bag with the business owner at the end of the evening. We help many local young musicians with their private lessons from the proceeds of these tip bags. Some of these young people would have to go without music lessons without your help. Thank you for your generous support of Acker Night!

IMPORTANT - Due to the amount of returned mail we receive, we will not be sending the sign-up cards by mail next year. We will be sending them by email and have online sign-ups. Please join our email list to ensure you receive this information in a timely manner. Subscribe on our website, www.AckerNight.com click on Subscribe then Performers. We will not spam you. We will also be sending valuable info to keep you informed during the planning process. If you would like to receive a card by mail, please email us each year

with the address you want us to send it. AckerNight@gmail.com Thank you for all you do to keep the music alive for our kids!

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Sincerely,

The Acker Committee

928 778-5460