Blues Is Our Business ... Period
For over a dozen years, Biscuits & Blues has been one of America's premier blues venues. We are home to the blues and and also present top acts in genres such as jazz, R&B, and Latin jazz. Our intimate setting and unobstructed stage views, fine food and international clientele make Biscuits & Blues a must-visit Bay Area landmark.

Returning Artists
Please send us updated pictures, posters and other promo material 60 days before your date. Please click here to see our current venue rider listing set times, hospitality guidelines and other important information which may have changed since your last visit.

Promote Yourself
Here's our favorite list page of Bay Area print / radio / web outlets to which you can easily send promotional material to help your show be a success. This is a non-corporate, community-based website run by a civic-minded SF musician and we trust you will find it very useful: http://silentway.com/music/calendar.html

New Artists
Before calling or sending a package, please send email to booking agent Steven Suen at booking@biscuitsandblues.com and provide web links for review. Please click here to see our current venue rider for important talent info.

Promo Items Appreciated
Send posters and pictures, please!
Biscuits & Blues
Attn: Booked Artist Materials
401 Mason Street
San Francisco, CA 94102

Our Bag
We are a blues, jazz and R&B venue and we consider other genres such as Latin jazz, which fit the format of our World Music Nite. Please also check out The Union Room at Biscuits And Blues located on the second floor. URL: http://www.theunionroom.com. The Union Room presents all other genres of music.

Biscuits & Blues
401 Mason Street, San Francisco, CA 94102
tel (415) 292-2583 fax (415) 292-4701

MAIN VENUE POLICIES RIDER

Our downstairs supper club venue has important policies regarding set lengths, hospitality, fees and deposits, merchandise, capacity, access and more. In an effort to improve venue/artist communication, we have created this rider which must be signed and included with all artist contracts and riders as an integral part of the contract. These policies are non-negotiable and contracts returned without an executed copy of this rider cannot be processed.

SET TIMES
All artists must conform to our standard set times (below). We make reservations and sell tickets based on this schedule. Please follow staff engineer’s call regarding set times, volume levels and stagecraft. Occasionally we have to modify set times to accommodate large dining groups, which is our sole right. We respectfully request all talent to honor crowd calls for encore at night’s end at least once.

Sunday - Thursday downstairs supper club set times:
8:00pm - 9:30pm
10pm - 11:30pm plus encore

Friday - Saturday downstairs supper club set times:
8:00pm - 9:15pm or 75 minutes from actual downbeat, no encore (because we turn the house)
10:00pm - 11:30pm or 90 minutes from actual downbeat plus encore at artist’s discretion.

LOAD-IN AND TECH
The club is staffed daily from noon to close and bands should load-in before our 6pm opening; late load-in causes major problems. If you’re going to be late, CALL us. Engineer arrives 1.5 hours before show time. Sound checks occur while dining patrons are present and are only simple line checks to insure quality monitor levels; no rehearsals, please.

HOSPITALITY
We issue band meals for performing members plus one extra meal for your genuine roadie/manager/tech, a maximum of eight. Two drink tickets are issued for each musician and only a total of ten drink tickets are available per band. Soft drinks and water are free. Band meal and drink tickets cannot be extended or transferred to any other persons.

GUEST LISTS
The headlining band is allowed five (5) guests total per night. We will cheerfully add additional guests to your list and debit their admission from your show pay. They’ll still think they’re guests, and you’ll maintain being that cool musician that gets everyone in on the list. Guest list names are due from bandleader only, before the show.

CAPACITY
Our seating capacity is figured at 120 per show.

PROMOTION
We list concerts on our website and provide this info to area newspapers, radio stations and web-based sources. Artists MUST send us actual pictures, POSTERS, bios and CDs TWO WEEKS prior to their show – we cannot print out your photos, you have to send them to us by postal mail, attention “booked artist materials.” Posters work! Visit the “booking” page on our website for links to Bay Area media. Journalists like to hear from bands!

MERCHANDISE
Artists can sell merchandise at the box office and must pay $1.00 per unit directly to front door staffer. Artists are encouraged to autograph CDs in our lobby at the conclusion of performances. Your appearance upstairs will encourage the sales of your CD and will alleviate the congestion in the supper club when turning the house.

EXCLUSIVITY
Headlining artists must not play any other venue in San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose, San Rafael, Redwood City or any other city within 100 miles of this venue for thirty days before or after a booked appearance at Biscuits & Blues. Any exception must be cleared in advance with club management.

DEPOSITS AND PAYMENTS
No deposits or advances. Performance fees are paid at conclusion of performance.

CONFORMITY
This venue rider supersedes any other contract rider on the included issues. Any discrepancy will be resolved according to this venue rider. While every attempt is made to amend all original contracts to reflect these club policies, artists and managers are encouraged to word original contracts to conform to this venue rider.

ALL-AGES VENUE
This is a family environment. Artists are reminded to refrain from obscenity or lewdness.

NEED ROOMS?
Find our low "artist referral" rates by asking for the “Biscuits And Blues Rate” at the King George Hotel, 334 Mason, San Francisco, CA 94102. Call (415) 781-5050 and ask for the Sales Department. Also check out Hotel Fitzgerald, 620 Post St. 415.775.8100 and ask for the Biscuits And Blues musician rate.

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