Years ago there was a lot of "Meet and Greet" evenings around the country, these were a no commitment to play and basically a names to faces meet and chance to suss out who was local and what they were like.
I ran all the ones in Wanganui and Palmerston North and they were very popular back in the day.
Do we need to revitalize this event? In the light of Covid and seemingly a reluctance of people to meet others would the meet and greet events rekindle and kickstart the scene again Post Covid?
In the era we attended such events in Motueka, Wellington, Levin, Napier, Palmerston North, Wanganui, New Plymouth, Taupo, Rotorua, Hamilton, and Auckland.
My ones I selected a venue that provided a free 'room' to have a private event in, rule was NO troublemaking and no BYO and all alcohol is to be purchased from the.
The outlay financially for the organizer is minimal and a door charge is not required from attendees, the meets need to be set up and promoted at least a month before the event date.
When these were being run in the day they attracted attendees from all over the country especially regulars form the site chat rooms.
