Jeri Goldstein

Jeri Goldstein was the agent and manager for some of the top touring acoustic artists on the circuit including Robin & Linda Williams and Garrison Keillor & The Hopeful Gospel Quartet. Goldstein has booked national and international tours for artists performing in country, folk, gospel, bluegrass, contemporary, classical and childrens music. She has also booked tours for theater and dance.
After 20 years of working as an agent and manager, Goldstein authored the award-winning book, How To Be Your Own Booking Agent: In 2001, Goldstein partnered with The Southern Arts Federation and Carnegie Mellon Arts Management Program, to produce an E-SeminArts, three-hour workshop CD-ROM, Marketing Your Act. Articles for the self-managed artists have been published on Getsigned.Com; in Indie Magazine; Music Biz Magazine; GiG Magazine as well as many other sites throughout the Internet. In this issue, Jeri is interviewed by Eric Cager Indies Editor about her latest venture Teaching Touring Techniques with Technology
Goldstein created innovative programs as a resource for performing artists--Manager-In-A-Box, a consultation program, is designed to help performing artists, agents and managers enhance their career development. The Performing Biz is Goldsteins seminar that is presented at universities, festivals, conferences, and for art councils or to individual groups of performing artists. In 2005, she began offering Career Boosting Retreats for performing artists at her home. Goldsteins background runs the gamut working inside the entertainment industry as concert promoter, tour coordinator, commercial television production engineer for an NBC affiliate station, commercial country radio DJ, photographer and graphic artist. She has also served as President and member of the Board of Directors of the Folk Alliance. Goldstein coordinates the Folk Alliances Booking Agent Training School for the annual conference. Goldstein also serves as consultant to the Virginia Commission for the Arts. Currently, she makes her home in central Virginia.