Performer Information
Night Out works across Wales with volunteer promoters in village halls, spaces and community venues who want to book professional performers.
Please Read Information below, the FAQs and 'What we need to know' pages before e mailing your information. We receive lots of requests from companies and are not able to respond to all enquiries. Send your information to: enquiry@nightout.org.uk
Literature events however are funded by Literature Wales and choirs and some music societies may wish to investigate funding opportunities from Ty Cerdd. Tribute bands, pantomimes and choirs are not supported through Night Out.
About Night Out
The Arts Council of Wales' Night Out scheme helps hundreds of community groups across Wales bring the arts to the heart of their communities, by selecting and hosting professional performing arts events in non-traditional smaller scale venues (mostly village halls and community centres).
Through the scheme, small communities can access great art in a familiar, friendly space and artists can enjoy performing in small, informal spaces, with more intimate audiences. Night Out works throughout the year with local, national and international artists and covers a broad spectrum of the performing arts from theatre and circus to music and puppetry.
Noson Allan Fach is a mini version of the scheme aimed at Welsh Language performers.
"The rural communities are so appreciative of the scheme. It brings together families and friends of all ages. As musicians we thrive on the fabulous responses and enjoyment we are given to entertain these otherwise isolated regions."
"Night Out is fabulous - it enables established professional performers like ourselves to bring our shows to rural venues, reaching many more people with our music. Without a scheme like this, shows like ours would only be able to perform in big cities."
How to register as a performer
Send us your information and if we think you are suitable, we will give you a Performer Login. You can then complete your information and add shows, which will appear on our website. These appear by availability date, which you set when adding the show.
Night Out is one of many similar schemes that exist across the UK. The National Rural Touring Forum develops and supports this network. As a performer you can join the NRTF and find out more about conferences, events and other schemes.