Specifications include, but are not limited to: a. Advise and guide Fair management in selecting entertainment within budget requirements. Contractor shall have experience preparing and managing a budget. Contractor shall work closely with management to create a booking strategy that correlates to specific artists, genres, and venue demographics as it relates to the entire event production by and held on the property of Cal Expo. b. Manage negotiating process to procure all professional headline entertainment appearing at the concert stage during the annual State Fair for the term of the agreement. c. Review and administrate all professional headline entertainment contracts with artists’ riders. Contractor shall make necessary amendments to contracts and riders based upon Cal Expo’s policies, procedures, and limitations. Contractor shall create and prepare a standard addendum (pre-approved, acknowledged and accepted by major talent agencies) that will be attached to all artist contracts that identifies and addresses business and production related matters. Working with Cal Expo’s Contract Officer, Contractor shall return contract packages to artists’ management for signature and shall monitor and track the contract process.
