As an amateur I don't get to tour so much, but the conductor of one choir I sing with does seem to be able to do without food, and so sometimes the schedules are a ltittle tight-and we dont' ahve the benefits of a contract, or tour manager.
On one French tour we were singing at the
Abbaye de Valloires in the depths of Picardy. Actually, on this occasion we had been told that there would be food available at the Abbey between our rehearsal and the concert-this proved to consist of little more than crisps. Most of us were travelling by coach, but one member of the choir was extending the trip into a longer holiday, so was travelling in his own car (a Porsche 911), so he and one other singer went hareing off around the French countryside, and managed to find somewhere which could feed us all in the limited time available (on their return, the passenger was looking a little green around the gills), so we piled into the coach and set off, and found ourselves in a charmingly rustic restaurant (no other word for it), where we were fed well and cheaply on lovely French country food, all from fresh local ingredients. Of course, I'll never be abel to find it again, and have no idea what it was actually called.
