WED. 11-4: Ideas on where to tour with your choir next, how to plan your best, most inexpensive tour ever, and even how to tour right now with host Steve Fisher

#044. The pandemic WILL end and our choirs WILL tour again.  Steve's prediction is that, by this summer, it will be safe to tour - depending on your tolerance for calculated risk.  But you need to start planning now.  For those choirs who don't have a tradition of touring, maybe you should start one, as a carrot to get singers to return post pandemic. And here's a bold question. Why not plan your own concert tour?  That's right, no travel agents, no tour companies.   You CAN do it yourself and end up offering your choristers their best tour yet. Not only could it cost less per day than any previous tour, but planning your own tour allows your organization to benefit financially. Today Steve gives a sneak peak at a course he'll be offering at the end of the season on how to plan your own concert tour. He also provides a list of countries that are admitting tourists without a quarantine at this moment in time and shares a great idea colleagues had for being hosted by international choirs right now. Visit the SHOW NOTES for links related to this episode. You can also visit coronachoir.org for more resources. There you can join the email list and  be automatically entered into a drawing to tour South Africa with Steve and make music with his South African friends - all expenses paid. If you're a choir leader and you need help solving a choir problem of any kind, visit 1 on 1 with Fish the Choir Guy, where 30 years experience meets your choral challenges. Finally, stay tuned for Steve's online mine course series, "South African Songs in 7!," as well as a course on how choral organizations can plan their own concert tours.  That's right. Your ensemble can have far superior and much less expensive tour experiences, with the profit going to your organization's bottom line instead of a cookie cutter tour company.