Benefits for Artists

We know why you are doing this: raising money for a worthwhile beneficiary plus the good feeling of helping to sustain and develop the local/regional songwriting community. (Well, that and the free dinner...)

PERKS FOR PERFORMING

• Concert DVD
• Fifty ($50) dollar honorarium from WYCE (see "The W9 Thing" below)
• Free dinner for Artists after at a local bistro (food provided, cash bar)
• Print & Broadcast publicity: via ads, features, radio (and possible TV) promos
• Your CDs featured on WYCE radio and internet broadcasts leading up to the show. 
  (DJs may "discover" your music and add you to their regular playlist, too!)
• Frequent name mentions during the promo run-up to the concert
• Possible includion in of MP3 for sale at Octoberday.com (depending on performance and copyright of "traditional" song)
• On-Air Interview LOCAL ARTISTS contact J. Oscar about doing an on-air during the week  leading up to the concert
• Concert Broadcast on GRTV duing last two weeks of December
• Concert Outakes Broadcast on WYCE - if recordings are broadcast quality, selections will be made available to WYCE programmers to play during winter months
• Concert selections featured on Local Resonance holiday program

"THE W-9 THING"

Both WYCE and the producers of A Winter's Tune would love to hand you a "U.S. Grant" for your contribution...  unfortunately the tax game doesn't play that way. To distribute honoraria checks WYCE must have a signed W-9 form to "legitimify" the distribution.

To claim your $50 honorarium

• Get a W-9 Tax Form (available at station address below)
  or fill it in online at  www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/fw9.pdf
• Print out, sign and date the form
• Mail W-9 to:
  
  WYCE
  ATTN: Kevin Murphy
  711 Bridge St NW
  Grand Rapids, MI 49504
  (local folks can drop off W9 at the address above)

Fill out and send in promptly (in the next three weeks) and station manager Kevin Murphy will hand you an envelope at the show...
...otherwise a check will be mailed to you at the address on the W-9 form

NOTE:  In the past some Artists have opted to not accept the honorarium

• for personal tax reasons
• and/or to donating the money to WYCE 

You may do the same but if you wish a receipt for your donation to WYCE, you'll have to take their check and write them one from your own account to get credit.