If you are interested in performing at Old Sloop Coffeehouse, please send email to info@oldsloopcoffeehouse.org.  Email sent to that address reaches all of the members of the Old Sloop Coffeehouse booking committee.  The committee will want to hear examples of your music.  You may provide links to online music.  CDs and press kits may be sent to Old Sloop Coffeehouse, First Congregational Church of Rockport, 12 School St, Rockport, MA 01966.  Old Sloop Coffeehouse receives many booking inquiries, and it may take some time to respond.  We beg for your patience!

The Hall
Performances take place in the church's Fellowship Hall. The room is 53 feet long and 30 feet wide, and has an 11 1/2 foot ceiling. It is on the second floor, and is accessible by elevator, making load in and out simple. We have so far set the hall up only in concert layout, in which it holds up to 150 seats. A stage occupies one end of the room. The kitchen, from which food is served at intermission, is at the opposite end.

Acoustically, the room is quite dead, making it unsuitable for purely acoustic performances. But the dry natural sound characteristics lend themselves nicely to sound support, and the room sounds very good with a bit of artificial reverb. Performers and audiences have been very pleased with the sound.

Fellowship Hall has a wonderful antique Steinway grand piano that is on loan to the church and is available to performers who promise to be nice to it.

The Stage
The stage is portable and is set up for each performance. The church has ten 4 foot square IntelliStage decks with 16 inch risers. Several different deployments are possible. For solo performers, we often use six decks to set up a stage that is 12 feet wide and 8 feet deep. For groups, we use eight decks to create a 16 by 8 foot stage. When there is a drummer, we can use the remaining two decks to arrange a 4 foot deep extension off the back of the stage.

Lighting
Above the stage are 24 fixed vertically-mounted par 32 lamps arranged in two rows with red, green, and blue gels. There is an eight foot horizontal pipe in front of the stage and a four foot vertical pipe on each side wall. There are eight par 56 lamps with a variety of gel colors that can be deployed on these pipes. A DMX controller manages the lighting from the back of the house.

Sound
Two Mackie SRM450s serve as mains. Four Mackie SRM350s are available as monitors, configurable in up to four channels. There are four Shure Beta87A condenser and four Shure SM58 dynamic vocal microphones. We have two Shure SM81 condenser and three Shure SM57 dynamic instrument mics and five Radial JDI direct boxes. Two 8 x 4 Whirlwind snakes that run through the ceiling connect speakers and sources to a Mackie Onyx 1640i mixer atop a rack at the back of the audience. Also in the rack are a Lexicon MX200 effects processor (used to add reverb), two dbx Drive Rack PX speaker management systems (EQ, feedback management, and compression for mains and monitors), two dbx 231 graphic equalizers, and a Numark CD player.  The mixer has an integrated digital interface.  Bring a laptop with recording software, plug in a fire wire cable, and record your live album at Old Sloop Coffeehouse!