Deb Jones Email & Phone Number

Rochester, New York, United States

General Manager and Talent Buyer for 1000+ cap historic music venue.

Rochester, New York, United States

Live sound engineer for Corn Hill Arts Festival Gazebo stage

Rochester, New York Area

Mix local and national touring bands

United States

Book and produce local, regional, national and international talent. 500 capacity entertainment venue. Create and execute offers, contracts and negotiations. Advance all shows on all levels, settlement, marketing and promotion. Booking: Identify and book international, national, regional and local music talent and events. Correspondence with promoters, artists and agencies throughout the USA. Contract negotiations and execution, riders etc.Production: Stage, sound, lights, hospitality and technical rider advance and execution, merchandise, logistics, staff coordination.Tickets: Create online ticket link. Print, distribute and keep track of / provide accounting physical tickets to outlets. Provide ticket counts to promoters, agents, artists. Provide settlement documentation.Marketing:- Assets: Produce and / or oversee production of show graphics in various formats for paid ads, boosts etc. on social media. Provide print ready artwork to printer, approve, pickup, distribute.- Website: design, update events and descriptions, integrate apps, ticket links, RSVPs etc.- Advertising: Create marketing budget, strategy, collaboration and execution with all interested parties. Create, manage, maintain ad campaigns, publish, track and report paid social ads (Eventbrite / toneden, META, website, groups, email lists etc.)Merchandising:- Built from the ground up Shopify store front for merchandise sales.Administration:- Create and send new business inquiries to talent agencies, artists and promoters.- Create offers, contracts, invoices and addendums for all events. - Google calendar, 300+ shows a year. - Provide up to date and accurate information for each event.- Track and file all show settlements.- Create and maintain databases for client email list, talent / agent database, settlements, offers, etc.- Respond to and follow up on inquiries.Google Workspace, Eventbrite, toneden, META, Facebook, Instagram, PosterMyWall, Squarespace, Shopify, Photoshop

Rochester, New York Area

Events Manager & Assistant to VP at the largest record store in the North East. Booking in-store performances with national, regional, local and up-and-coming artists. In house audio engineer, private and public event bookings, catering and event coordination. Retail sales and merchandising, customer service, scheduling and calendar management. 😊 Marketing and website production, staff training and employee manual production, all manner of office and procedural documents etc. Record Archive has been in business since 1975. It boasts over 13,000 square feet of vinyl, CD, gifts, audio equipment, 2 live music stages and event space. Founding member of CIMS.

Co-ordinate models, assist with setup and lighting, co-produce set design, book and coordinate hair / makeup / wardrobe for studio and location shoots.Designer and Producer for website.

Rochester, New York Area

Booking agent for Thursday nights at one of Rochester's premier Juke Joints.http://stickylipsbbq.com/stickylips/calendar

Rochester, New York Area

Artist Managerwww.daniellepondermusic.com www.rosieflores.comwww.frankdeblase.comhttps://m.facebook.com/bustedvalentines

Edmund Lyon Park, East Rochester

A three-day outdoor Italian Festival including multiple stages, food vendors, exhibitors, staffing, box office and accounting, security, VIP reception, and all production scheduling and logistics.

Rochester, New York Area

Events, festivals, concerts

Producer of The ADDY's

Rockefeller Plaza

NBC News – Education Nation 2010 and 2011 - Responsibilities included staff hiring, training and management, oversee load-in and load-out, inventory tracking, trucking, school group tours, sponsor liaison, and gathering all media required for the 2010 event. Day to day tasks also included broadcast programming with shows such as TODAY SHOW, Nightly News, MSNBC and multiple affiliates.

Tour Manager for CEG client Cinemax. Two tours 2010 and 2011. 2010 I toured 15 cities across the US celebrating Cinemax 30th Anniversary by delivering an appreciation style event for employees of providers such as AT&T, Time Warner Cable, Cox Communications etc. Worked with local staff and traveled with 1300lbs of gaming gear, signage & prizes. 2011 I toured the North Eastern region of the US promoting new original program Strike Back. Drove truck to each location, set up promotion, managed staff, photos, catering, games etc.

Rochester, New York Area

Experiential marketing, staffing and event management.

Voice / on camera talent for in-house executive training videos and applications

Idina Menzel; Responsible for all artist logistics, contracts, show settlement, tour budgets & accounting, bus contract and comforts, merchandise, all travel including flights, hotels, ground transportation & music equipment shipping, band auditions and crew hiring & payments, rehearsals, laminate design, tour books, interviews, radio and television promo, per diems, managing large groups of fans, VIP Meet & Greets etc., created show rider, stage plots, performed technical & show advancement and all day to day requirements.

2008 - Responsible for onstage performers for Disney Animatronics & other performers that are broadcast live around the world. 2009 - for all zone managers, rentals distribution and management of the overall event2010 - for all zone managers, rentals distribution and management of the overall event

Own and operate small business,; Trademark name - The Hookette*. Along with my two partners we have built this business to a six figure company over just a couple of years. Our clients include Ritz-Carlton and Four Seasons properties, cruise ships as well as other 5 star restaurants and high end boutiques across the country and Europe.

Tribeca, New York City

Responsible for all rentals for dozens of complicated vendors and participants - including many tents of various sizes, staging, decor, safety and technical requirements. Sponsor tents, stage management and logistics. Approximately 400,000 people attend this street fair every year.

Coordinated all travel logistics, guest passes, security laminates and backstage requirements for the following artists: Los Lobos, Patti Smith, Cheap Trick, George Clinton and the P Funk Allstars and The Fab Faux plus many others.

Manhattan, New York, United States

Marketing:• Design, write, print marketing materials including annual newsletter; individual pieces for approx. 20 artists• Design, write and produce company website• Direct, edit and produce fast paced, high-energy company sales video • Integrated database design and maintenance• Email marketing systemSenior Producer:• Partial client list inc: Merrill Lynch, Mercedes-Benz, Microsoft Corporation, The Syndicated National Television Association. Designed, provided talent for and / or produced multiple upfront events, large multi-day corporate meetings at various venue size scales inc: multiple Ritz-Carlton Hotels, Safeco Field, The Superdome and Convention Center, public and private events.• Partial list of talent booked and produced: The President and Mrs. Barbara Bush, Robert Redford, Ben Stein, Chris Isaak, Sugar Ray, Honorable Rudy Giuliani, Lou Dobbs, Marco Tempest, Nancy Sinatra, The Art of War, James Taylor, DJ Rap, Trinity Irish Dancers, Second City, Antigravity, The Boys Choir of Harlem, Michael Davis, Jim Belushi, Michael Weber, Patti LaBelle, Mario, Kelly Rowland, Jorge Ben Jor, Chaka Kahn, Bebe Winans, Sam Moore, Ashford and Simpson, Lionel Richie and many more.• Skills: expertise in the technology/connectivity field were utilized to produce several complicated technology events.• Private clients; talent booking and production with Colin Cowie on several events inc a multi-million dollar wedding at The Bronx Botanical Gardens, The Matrix Premier Party, Santa Monica, LA; production for an elaborate 12-hour custom-designed murder mystery game at the Rockefeller Country retreat in Lake Placid; designed and produced a three-theme winter wonderland holiday party for Mercedes-Benz at the ABC Studios in Times Square as well as all aspects pertaining to the opening night of Sinatra: His Voice, His World, His Way at Radio City Music Hall for this same client.

Booked and produced music lineup for a 2 day R&B Festival. Negotiated and contracted multi-platinum artists such as Earth, Wind & Fire, Gerald Levert, Boyz II Men, Brian McKnight, Faith Evans, John Legend, as well as legends The Brothers Johnson and popular artists such as Ciara and Whild Peach and many others. Performed all logistics for artists including travel, technical advance, staging and dressing room requirements, payments, artist media promotion & PR, performed on-air local TV promotion, crew staffing and overall back stage management.Created Battle of the Bands to contract local opening bands through local and regional radio promotion, incorporated & booked FOH entertainment such as the John Lennon Educational Tour Bus and other local elements such as Step Teams for family entertainment.The two years that I booked this festival it became the largest R&B festival in northeast America.

Designed and built comprehensive and integrated database system including Job Estimates, Time Sheets, Invoices, Statements, Contacts, billing etc. Remained on as part time bookkeeper after database was complete.

Responsible for booking and producing a concert tie-in promotion with major label artists Luscious Jackson and Paula Cole for a HBO feature film, "If These Walls Could Talk 2".

United States

Worked with punk / Rastafarian group Bad Brains. Primary duties with this band included tour management, budgets and accounting to Warner Brothers / Maverick Records and Padell, Nadell & Co., tour logistics, band equipment endorsements, merchandise and road manager / personal handler for the group. Toured throughout America three times with this band both at club level with The Deftones and at stadium level with the Beastie Boys.

Designed and built comprehensive merchandise settlement database for both Jones Beach and Madison Square Garden locations. To my knowledge this system is still in use.

Responsible for managing the legendary music venue with a staff of over 50 people. Duties included: scheduling of all shift positions such as box office, security staff, backstage, waitstaff & bar tenders, bus, porters and sound crew. All aspects of club and event management which included overseeing artist contracts, fulfilling backstage and technical riders, deposit payments and show settlements, private event sales & production, box office sales, advertising, contract maintenance of all bar equipment, air conditioning systems & ice machines, plumbing and all general maintenance. Financial accounting & banking, receivables, ordering bar stock and supplies. Daily and weekly financial reconciliation with Tramps Cafe including all food and beverage sales, rent, bar staff scheduling and payments etc. Worked with artists such as Wu Tang Clan, Outkast, Pharcyde, Tribe Called Quest, Prince, Bob Dylan, Smashing Pumpkins, Ray Charles, Elvis Costello, Willie Nelson, Vanessa Williams, Steve Earle and hundreds of other world-class and up-and-coming musicians were regular performers at this club.

Responsible for replacing existing sound track and procuring Sync License agreements for all live music artists featured during the film. Toast with the Gods is a surreal adaptation of Homer's "The Odyssey. It won 3 international awards for "Best Feature Film". Directed by Latino Pellegrini & Eric Magun

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Delivered feature articles and music reviews as well as writing a monthly local scene report covering countless local bands in Adelaide, Australia. Continued as a correspondent during my first few years in New York City where I reviewed and interviewed bands including AC/DC, Bad Brains, Janes Addiction, Megadeth, Corrosion of Conformity, The Decendants, Tony Hawk, Mid Atlantic Sound, Skate & Surf Symposium, Nth Carolina and many others

Sydney's premier collectors retail store. Responsible for all aspects of running a retail record store including managing small staff, local buying, store window display and sales reconciliations.

Manager and engineer / producer of one of Australia's leading punk-rock bands, The Splatterheads. Booked and touredrelentlessly sold-out club shows, signed the band to a new independent label, produced a full-length album and produced &released a sell out 7” record on SpaceBeer Records.

Primary responsibility was in sales, promotion and distribution for Australia’s largest independent record distributor. Three international labels: Music for Nations, Roadrunner and Earache Records were my direct accounts from which I purchased music for the distributor catalog. Responsible for writing each weeks new release sales blurbs for sales staff on all new music releases. My sales accounts were with a major chain of record stores named Brashs as well as a few suburban small record stores around Australia. While at Shock, I started my own 7” collectors label called SpaceBeer Records, which released three sold-out pressings for local up-and-coming Sydney bands. During this time, I also produced a single for one of my bands in Melbourne, “Bourbon Bound” Brady Bunch Lawnmower Massacre, which reached #3 on the Billboard Alternative Charts in the UK.

Focus was mainly in corporate video production. I also learned to build databases and bookkeeping systems that tracked time, budgets, billing and contacts. I have continued to install databases on a contract basis for various companies both in Australia and in the US for companies ranging from construction and video production to law firms.

Diploma, Audio Engineering

SAE is a world recognized school for audio engineering. Completed 12 month part time course in studio and live engineering.

Graduate, Mathematics

Graduate, General Studies