This is the latest edition of our Directory of Performers, a practical and ‘user-friendly’ tool for promoters wishing to create programmes by choosing performers and ensembles from the lively early music scene.

For some time we have felt the lack of a corresponding Directory of Promoters, which would be a similarly user-friendly way for performers and the wider public to find out details of who is putting on what sort of concerts where and when. Accordingly, the Early Music Network will now be creating a new Directory to help fill the gap between performer and promoter. This will cover not only the big festivals and venues with well-established programmes of early music, but also the smaller spaces, series, clubs and so on who might wish to have an occasional early music event alongside their other programming of classical, jazz, folk, or ‘world’ music. This new Directory of Promoters will issue in the spring of 2004 - details of how to ensure your festival or venue will be included can be obtained by clicking on the 'Contact Us' link below.

We hope that we can continue to make it as easy as possible to enable you to book musicians, and I take this opportunity to remind you that this Directory is also available in paper format by calling me on 0208 743 0302. When booking it is useful if you inform the artists or agents that you have found them in this Directory.

A reminder that we use the term ‘early music’ - here and elsewhere in our activities - to mean music performed in a ‘historically-informed’ style: ‘performance on forms of instruments with which a composer would have been familiar and music performed with techniques and in styles which get closer to the composer’s original conception, or of particular later traditions of performance, than is possible if other approaches are employed.’ Please see the FAQs link below for further information.

Glyn Russ

Administrator, The Early Music Network