No Bullshit Booking
Our Mission

To work as a strategic career growth partner to promote the vision of our artists and venues. To work together with our clients to create a path to success, never compromising our foundational values of honesty, integrity, family, personal service and love of music.

Our Pledge

We offer personalized service based on a mutual belief in our client's vision.
We fill rooms and calendars through efficient and effective booking services.
We act as a strategic career growth partner. Working together, we climb to the next level and beyond.
Our History

Simon Says Booking began in Oregon back in the early 1990s and went through several incarnations, landing in 2002 in Western Massachusetts. Over the years, Simon Says Booking has represented some of the finest talent around the United States including past and present clients such as John Kadlecik (Darkstar Orchestra, Furthur, Phil Lesh and Friends), Max Creek, Adam Ezra Group, Start Making Sense, 10,000 Maniacs, Third World, The Skatalites, Bernie Worrell Orchestra, David Nelson Band, Cabinet, and many more, booking tens of thousands of shows.

In 2012, the Venue Management Department was launched at the agency, with the programming and publicity for the Stone Church in Newmarket NH, which continues into 2015.

Publicity support, social media management, newsletter, and poster management are all additional services being offered through our Publicity Department. Publicity clients have included the Mighty High Mount Festivals, Wormtown festivals, Max Creek, Deadbeat, Golden Gate Wingmen, John Kadlecik, Girls Guns and Glory, Big Leg Emma, and many others.

Prove it!

Our wide reach and vast network of personal contacts, in tandem with proven systems that bring together booking, promotion and distribution, combine to create a solid and dynamic platform for robust sales and artists' career development. Our targeted guidance and strategic vision is based on 20+ years of music industry experience and an adherence to the Simon Says values of honesty, integrity, family, personalized service, and a deep love of music. We are intimately connected to our artists' daily activities, we identify with their struggles, and we share in their vision, all which enables us to develop a specific and individualized plan for their development and success.

Simon Says Booking handles thousands of gigs a year all over the country. Our proven track record for developing bands and helping to bring them to the next level, while never compromising the artist's or the agency's vision, has created a far-reaching Simon Says family. We push beyond the traditional agent-client relationship, forging even more meaningful bonds, which ultimately contribute to the bottom - line of success for all.

Red Baraat is a pioneering band from Brooklyn, New York. Conceived by dhol player Sunny Jain, the group has drawn worldwide praise for its singular sound, a merging of hard driving North Indian bhangra with elements of hip-hop, jazz and raw punk energy. Created with no less a purposeful agenda than manifesting joy and unity in all people, Red Baraat’s spirit is worn brightly on its sweaty and hard-worked sleeve. 
“Their infectious rhythms roll over the audience like a hurricane and let the audience breathe only in a short ballad pause.”
— RHEIN MAIN PRESS (GERMANY)
Red Baraat’s June 2018 album release, “Sound The People”, hit the top 10 on the World Music Charts Europe and was heralded in the US as the anthem soundtrack for the South Asian diaspora by US hipster, indie-rock magazine.
“The album is full of moments that hit with the force of a spiritual awakening…The funk, ska-punk, and other American forms that make their way into the music are layered intricately within the same threadwork as the ragas on which these songs are pulled from. Each piece is a gesture of cultural harmony, rendering not only genre irrelevant, but the geographic placement of those sounds.”
— STEREOGUM
2018 also saw the band touring Kazakhstan, Abu Dabhi, US, Canada and Europe. They headlined the renowned WOMAD Festival in Cáceres, Spain in front of 10,000 people, performed the Vienna Konzerthaus (Philharmonie) in Austria and had the crowd jumping at Rudolstadt Festival in Germany. The release of Red Baraat’s 2nd album in 2013, Shruggy Ji, debuted at #1 on the Billboard World Music charts in USA and propelled the band on a world tour that has yet to stop. They’ve performed at Bonnaroo, Austin City Limits, WOMAD, globalFEST, Lincoln Center, New Orleans Jazz Fest, along with clubs, theatres, and arts centers. Along the way they sold out rooms as diverse as the Luxembourg Philharmonic and the New York City’s legendary rock club Bowery Ballroom, and performed at the request of The White House (Obama), TED and Olympic Games.  
“This year’s ‘discovery’ [WOMAD UK Festival], though, was Red Baraat, a cacophonous bhangra funk band from Brooklyn. Think Punjabi weddings, Delhi street brass bands, modern jazz and rock.”
— THE TELEGRAPH (UK)
But even as it’s clear that Red Baraat has built a startling history of performances in iconic settings, the band’s bread and butter remains the sweaty clubs, festivals, packed performing arts centers, and college auditoriums that keeps the band on the road all over the world the last several years. It’s here where Red Baraat does what it does best - communing with their audience in a joyful, near hedonistic celebration of music and dance, which tellingly, draws a crowd even more diverse than the players on stage. The universality of what Red Baraat does is undeniable. And this is no happy accident. It is the product of intention and design. Says Jain, “The band…our songs…are addressing the multiplicity of viewpoints,” says Jain. “There’s ‘Zindabad,’ which means ‘Long Live’ in Hindi. In that song, we’re saying that we celebrate life, we celebrate devotion — but we also celebrate agitation and revolution. If we can unite people of all backgrounds and ethnicities to partake in the exuberance of life through the universal language of music, then life is that much sweeter.”

All little children grow up, one day --- all except the bedazzled and glittered boys of Bella’s Bartok. Inspired by elements of Vaudeville, centuries of street performance, and an unyielding drive to promote camaraderie, Northampton, MA-based Bella’s Bartok delivers a passionate kaleidoscope of sound. The songs are born of Americana and folk music of their immigrant grandparents, blended with the joy of a particular brand of pop sensibility. Their performances are at once a primal stand against oppression and a declaration of joy in the face of adversity. From quiet reflections on loss, to the howl of justice in four-part harmony, Bella’s Bartok sonically and lyrically delivers a sweaty, soulful dance-party that is sure to leave the audience happily breathless.

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