Tour Manager
The Cantus Tour Manager is directly responsible for advancing, planning, and executing tours. The Tour Manager serves as the public face and representative of Cantus with presenters and venue staff and must be mindful of this responsibility at all times. Additional responsibilities include booking all travel arrangements and working with the Cantus Education Outreach Coordinator when outreach is part of an engagement. The Tour Manager will also coordinate with the Artistic Council and any publicists working on behalf of Cantus to arrange publicity activity around a concert performance. The Tour Manager is responsible for ensuring that the tour remains on schedule and that artists are supported throughout for a healthy and successful tour.
Duties include:
Duties include:
- Working with Cantus administration to create a travel budget and managing tour finances within it
- Advancing the concert with each presenter
- Booking all flights through Cantus’s travel agent
- Booking all rental vans or cars
- Booking all hotels and coordinating bookings with presenters when hotels are provided
- Providing the company and management with an itinerary 72 hours before departure
- Responsible for transporting CD merchandise
- Coordinating merchandise sales at each venue
- Settling with each venue for hall cuts on merchandise
- Verifying SoundScan paperwork with venue representative
- Collecting payment from presenters
- Safely transporting cash and checks from venue to venue and back to the office
- Writing and distributing a tour report for each venue
- Annual review and update to the technical rider with management
- Being the public face and representative for Cantus with presenters and venue staff
- Collecting and submitting receipts for all tour related expenses
- Coordinate timing of major purchases (airfare) with Director of Marketing and Finance to verify availability of credit and cash flow position
- Keep Cantus gig tracker “post-gig” up to date
