call for Instrument Makers to Exhibit

Irish Flute
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At the Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann North American convention in Parsippany, New Jersey this coming spring (April 8 – 11, 2010), we will be making exhibition space available to instrument makers, free of charge, to exhibit their instruments and meet their customers. Our convention attracts musicians of all ages from across North America, and we feel it is important to spread awareness of the fine instruments available. We hope you will consider joining us. You can count on meeting lots of old friends and will certainly make many more.

We expect to use the conference rooms reserved for music workshops during the daytime as exhibition space in the evenings, with one maker per room, which should allow sound isolation for people to try out instruments. Space will be allotted on a first-come basis, so please respond as soon as your scheduling permits.

Note: we are only extending this offer to makers; dealers are welcome to join us under our vendor program.

If you are interested in exhibiting, please contact me at tamadden@hotmail.com.

Comments and suggestions are welcome as well. This is the first time we have tried this, so if you have any good ideas, I’d love to hear them.

For more information about the convention in general, try http://www.cceconvention2010.org and if that does not help, drop me a note and I’ll see what I can turn up for you.

All the best,

Tom

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Yer temptin’ me, lad…
Would exhibitors need to pay admission to the rest of the events? I don’t know that I’d want to spend the whole time behind a table showing whistles, but I’d love to go to a couple of workshops too, maybe some of the impromptu sessions that seem to spring up.
Charlene and I went to this convention a couple of years back, and it was great fun.

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Yup - but only if you wanted to go to them. I mean, you are welcome to come, exhibit, and leave, free of charge. The sessions all over the hotel are free. But yes, the workshops and banquet show (not to be missed!) do carry a charge.

At least, by exhibiting in our “free” space, I’m pretty sure you qualify to write off travel and room expense as a business trip when doing your income taxes :slight_smile:

All the best,

Tom