Clementine

The Stage at Clementine

What We Book:

Country/Alt-Country, Indie-Folk Rock, Bluegrass, Rockabilly, Jazz-Fusion, Reggae, Indie-Rock, Blues and Some Weirdness - National, Regional and Good Local

Why We Book:

Quite simply, we book because we love. In the area of music, our goal is to provide the opportunity for patrons to hear and musicians to play great music.  Clementine is an extremely successful RESTAURANT and community space that also hosts music. Clementine loves and supports the musical arts. And just to prove it we have spent enormous amounts of time and money to provide an extremely nice (so we've been told) venue for artists and patrons to enjoy each others company. The technical specifications are without peer in the region for the size of the venue.

However, to love we must exist. To exist we must subsist. That means, at the very least, we can't lose money on booking your band.  We are not in the business of underwriting bands. We have no built in crowd to support your band, therefore, in order to book here you must be able to draw your own crowd. If you cannot guarantee a crowd, we cannot make any guaranteeto the band. Pay is based on draw. Bands are booked to bring patrons to Clementine to purchase food and beverages. That's how we pay our bills and that's how the people that work here pay theirs.

We provide extensive marketing for each and every band that we book. We are strong supporters of our public radio affiliates WMRA and WEMC, as well as WNRN and JMU student radio WXJM. We utilize our own email based news page. Our website has our full calendar. Band dates are posted on our face book site. A comprehensive monthly calendar/poster is prominently displayed in house as well as about town along with band posters. Similar card sized calendars are printed and distributed literally by the thousands. Table tents are also utilized. We do bi/weekly print ads in JMU's student newspaper The Breeze when they are in session.

We expect bands to do something to promote themselves. If you already have a date booked, please send us anything we can use to help promote the event here at the club: posters, flyers, weblinks, CDs, photos, etc. While we will do our best, as noted above, promotion is ultimately the responsibility of the performer and/or the performer's promotional team. Click here for an extensive list of local contacts to use in promoting your event. At minimum provide us with printed posters two weeks prior- NOT material from an EPK that requires us to download and print. Failure to do so is a guaranteed never get booked again.

When We Book

We are currently booking only Thursday, Friday and Saturday unless you have a known marquee draw and/or are willing to work on very favorable terms. We do not need and cannot take the risk of booking off days. Our entire calendar is available below. Please review it and save us both the time involved in saying sorry, that date is booked. Dates on hold are not revealed but can be resolved within a day or two. Please do your homework, save us all some time.

Some Bands We've Booked

Peter Rowan Trio, Black Moth Super Rainbow, Akron/Family, Pattern is Movement, Obits, Paper Route, Bearfoot, The Wiyos, Jim Weider's Project Percolator, John Jorgenson Quintet, Yarn, Snarky Puppy, Taarka, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Larry Keel & The Natural Bridge, Justin Jones & The Driving Rain, Jeff Coffin Mu'tet, Corey Harris, Pato Banton€, American Aquarium, Shotgun Party, Big Daddy Love, Born Ruffians, Hackensaws, Vetiver, Miss Tess and the Bon Ton Parade, Steel Wheels, Harmonius Wail, William Walters & Co., Eli Cook, Jayke Orvis & James Hunnicut, The Hillbilly Hellcats, Xiu Xiu, Sam Amidon, Neo, Tribraco, Peter Bradley Adams, Greensky Bluegrass, The Infamous Stringdusters, The Woes, Lucky Tubb, The Extraordinaires, J. P. Harris and the Tough Choices, The Kopecky Family, Paleface, The Blackberry Bushs, Porter Hall Tennessee, Andy Friedman, The Honey Dew Drops, The Defibulators , The Hot Seats, The New Familiars, Wayne the Train Hancock, Downbeat Project, The DJ Williams Project, The Weber Brothers, Cults, The Invisible Hand, Ameranouche, The Discordian Society

Sound System

The location of the stage is on the main floor of Clementine and room has a capacity of 200. The space has been extensively treated with sound absorbing panels and materials. A highly qualified sound technician is supplied, but you can bring your own and our's will be there to provide assistance.

• Yamaha LS9 32 channel digital mixing console
• 4 fully independent monitors fitted with full range JBL 15"  elements and 1.5" compression drivers coupled w/sandcast aluminum horns
• Full-range fully suspended array type JBL main house speakers
• Pair of dual JBL 18" subs, fully suspended
• All elements driven by QSC amps; total 25000+ watts rms
• Twin Ashley Proteas provide control to the mains and monitors 
• Full system has been Smarted with the most recent software application
• EQ's for all speakers
• 5 x Audix OM6 Mics
• 2 x Shure SM58 Mics
• 6 x Audix D4 Mics
• 2 x Audix i5 Mics
• 1 x Audix D6 Mic
• 4 available DI's
• Stage Dimension: 13'x8'

Tremendous effort and an awful lot of time and money has been spent to make sure that the audience in every corner of the room can hear everything that the artists do.  We've got one of the finest rooms of it's kind and size on the East Coast.