Sample Press Release
For Promoters and Presenters:
Below is a sample press release which you can use to promote Rik's upcoming performance. Just highlight the text, rightclick with your mouse, copy and then paste the text into your word processing program. Then fill in the blanks with your concert and contact information.
(Press release by Richard Skelly)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Rik Palieri To Perform At [Your Venue].
On [Your concert date information] , Rik Palieri will bring his voice and instrumental talents to the [Your venue address].
How many performers do you know who are as at ease singing tunes by Bluesmen Leadbelly and Son House as they are at telling a folk tale to children before leading them through a traditional Polish folk song and dance?
Such a performer is Rik Palieri. Palieri, born and raised in New Jersey, now living in Vermont, is a dream come true for school assembly organizers, just the right kind of ethnic performer and original singer/songwriter for folk festival booking committees and the kind of engaging performer coffeehouse directors are always seeking.
It is no small feat to be able to do so many things so well. But through his long and varied experiences as a performer, Palieri gracefully segues from original tunes on guitar to old traditional "Americana" folk songs on banjo, to intricate, involved ballads from the mountains of Poland on the rare and exotic Polish bagpipes.
His original songs have been praised by folk legends like Pete Seeger, U. Utah Phillips and Jimmy Driftwood. His music has taken him on road trips through every state in the continental US as well as Australia, Germany, Poland, Scotland, France, and Spain. Rik Palieri has appeared on TV, both in the USA and overseas, countless radio stations around the globe, and at numerous folk festivals, such as The Vancouver Folk Festival, The Philadelphia Folk Festival and The Champlain Valley Folk Festival. He has won numerous grants including those from Poland's Kosciuzko Foundation, the Vermont Council on the Arts, National School Assemblies & Dakota School Assemblies, meet the Composer Grant and first place in the South Texas Banjo Contest.
Palieri is one of the new breed of folksingers and singer/songwriters who can take you on a musical jaunt around the world in the course of an evening.
For more info on Rik's concerts contact [Your Venue Contact].
Press release contact:
Koza Productions
66 Koza's Run
Hinesburg, VT 05461
(802) 482-3185 = phone or fax
rik@banjo.net
Rik is available to do phone interviews for the paper or radio. Just call the above number in Vermont and leave a message with a name & phone number and time that you can be reached and he will be happy to return your call for an interview.