Costs

Ministering together through music is what the Lord has called us to do full-time. In order to meet our expenses and yours, there are several ways that could help to cover the costs of hosting an event, such as taking a love offering, giving an honorarium based on travel and the size of the event, (we could discuss that by email or phone) or ticket sales if appropriate. If there is extra travel, housing outside what is normal, playing more than one concert or other requests beyond what we normally do, then we will need to discuss the possible additional expenses we may incur and therefore might need help covering. It is our desire to be able to come and play whenever we are asked, as well as to be a blessing to the people we play for, so we do not want the finances to be a reason that we do not come and play. If donations are not possible, then we can discuss other means of fundraising by e-mail or phone. We realize that sometimes a hosting organization wishes to take a love offering for their church/organization. We ask that if you plan to do this at the concert event, you take your love offering at a separate time from the love offering taken for The Wintons. We are trusting the Lord to provide for our family as we minister together in this way, and ask that you would pray for Him to do so along with us.

Due to the fact that we travel, we ask that the love offering/fee be paid to the Wintons that day at the end of your concert. This means if you have to have checks from the love offering made payable to your church or organization then make one check payable to us, you must have someone able to write checks available right after the concert ends to sign the check before we leave unless other arrangements have been made prior to our arrival at the concert.

Hosting Group

What we are asking of the hosting church or group is pretty simple. We ask them to provide a venue for the concert, to advertise the event with the material we send and which can be obtained from our website, and to advertise on the free on-air radio station calendars in your area. We also ask for the ability to sell our merchandise in an area that will receive the traffic of those attending the concert. We ask that the person in charge of the event have someone prepared to take a love offering for us during the concert unless we have made other arrangements. Due to the fact that we will be leaving your area immediately after the concert in most cases, we ask that all money from the love offering be given to The Wintons that day at the end of the concert.

Concert Details

Our concert is generally 60-75 minutes in length. We will come up with the emcee of your choice as they introduce us. The emcee would remind people about the merchandise table and that an offering will be taken. About halfway through the concert, we will talk about what our family does and why, then we will show 2-3 trailers from the films that we offer. At that point the emcee can take the love offering. While the love offering is being taken we will continue playing music and finish out the concert.

Event Types

We have determined that we will do concert-type settings only and we do not play background music for an event. It is our desire to speak to various issues pertaining to family, serving together, and other topics, and we also wish to clearly present the gospel at our concerts. Please don’t have us play during a meal or while other events are going on. If people are sitting around tables during a meal or meeting prior to our concert, we ask that you would have everyone put their chairs in a concert-type seating arrangement before we play. If there are any changes to the arrangements or schedule that we have agreed upon prior to the concert, please let us know prior to us arriving. These are some of the events we have performed at, and we are able to do any of these or other types of events as desired.
-Full Concert (indoor and outdoor)

-House Concerts – (information here.)

-Lead Sunday Worship Music and perform a concert after the service or that evening (We do not want to take away from the worship of the Lord so we ask to not be schedule to play a “concert” Sunday morning during the regular service time).

-Church special events or small groups
-Bluegrass Festivals
-City-wide events/Festivals

-After-dinner entertainment or fundraisers for community organizations. (We do not play during dinner or while other events are happening.)

-College chapel services.

SOUND

Our sound needs are simple:
-Sound board with 6 channels and phantom power

-Main speakers

-1 Monitor

-6 boom mic stands (black if possible)

-We will bring our own mics

-6 mic cables at stage area

-Sound person to run the existing sound, or to help run our sound

-We do carry our own sound system; however, we appreciate using the existing house sound if it is appropriate for our event.

-DVD Player & video projector

SET-UP

1. We would like to be able to access the venue are 1 1/2 hours prior to the concert.

2. Please have the stage area clear and electricity close. We need a general stage size of 10’x10’, but we are flexible if this size is unavailable.

3. Two 8-ft tables for CD, DVD and book displays in the foyer/exit area.

PRESS

Updates coming soon.