I was emailing out come-ons for the band, mostly looking for July and August. I got this:
Could u perform this Friday for www.fiesta-Fridays.com Thank you for your interest in being featured at Downtown LA Artwalk with ART SQuare! Please visit www.downtownartsquare.org to reserve your vendor space for next month's event and save $10 on any booth when you use Promo Code: "10derrick" You may also be interested in CicLAvia this Sunday which has 100,000 registered bikers: www.ciclavia.eventbrite.com or our other event in downtown ~ Fiesta Fridays! www.fiesta-fridays.com Derrick Knight
Moonbridge Productions, Producer dknight@downtownartsquare.org 310-734-8623 www.fiesta-fridays.com
I replied that I needed to see if I had a band. The next day, I had half a band to go, so I told them yes we would come. What was the time slot, did they have sound or at least power? Can we park for free?
No response. I call the number. a girl answers that Derrick is out of town but she would give him the message. I call back yesterday, she gives a second email to cc and Derrick emails back to say says yes he'd like us to play. No info.
I reply and the second lady I cc'd says they would get back to me. Nothing.
So we plan to go. The lady on the phone told me it starts at 7:00pm
This morning I sent this:
Derrick & Lesly,
We will be coming tonight to play. We will probably arrive at 6-6:30 to set up to play at 7:00. We will need a place to plug in for electrical power. We would like to get as close as possible to off load equipment. And we have three cars coming and would prefer to not have to pay for parking. I assume we play until closing or we and the audience run out of stream. 10-11?
If you want us earlier, please get back to me. If we are sharing the time slot, please let me know that as well. Will there be an on site person to hook up with?
Thanks
I get this reply:
Hello Dan,
Unfortunately we had to postpone Fiesta Fridays to May 4th 2012, but I will add you to our list, and once the event gets closer I will send you an e-mail.
Again I apologize
If you have any more questions or concerns feel free to contact me
Lesly Amador
Moonbridge Productions, Executive Producer
lesly@downtownartsquare.org
Office 310-734-8623
Cell 323-382-2983
1 comment:
Hi Dan,
Thank you for posting this whole conversation with Derick Knight promoter of Fiesta Friday. You should be glad that yoi didnt not perform tonight for the event or you would have not gotten paid. We signed up for this event and he charged our credit card for a lot of money. We showed up at 5:30pm with 10 other food vendors. After two hours of just sitting there waiting for people to come, we were bored out of our minds because nobody knows about the event and people on the street just looked and continued on. 15 minutes later, there were 4 cops writing citations and shut us down. Derrick was nowhere to be found. His 2 other co-organizers, Lesly Amador, kept saying he's eating dinner. After 9pm, he showed up and just sat in his car and didnt want to talk to anybody. He didnt want to give the vendors their money back. Finally, he got out of the car and took off in an gated alley. We were left all in awe and pissed, not only did we lost $250, we wasted money on food, gas and time to drive and set up. It was a miserable night for 12 food vendors just trying to earn decent living all because of one crook and scum of the earth person named Derrick Knight promoter and owner of Fiesta Friday. I am glad you didnt go to his worthless event and was spared.
Just wanted to share this with you so you have an idea in case he contacts you for his other fake events.
Thank you for taking time to read this
Regards
Sheila
Spyder1022@hotmail.com
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