If the festival is a success, it's planned to hold concerts at Sudeley every summer and promote young up-and-coming performers alongside more famous ones.

It is renowned for its established, traditional circus acts, along with up-and-coming performers.

At WHOM, he began to give up-and-coming black performers exposure.

He was instrumental in recognizing and exposing the talent of up-and-coming performers and brought international stars to Parisian audiences.

It began in 2004 as a series of concerts and has grown to be a meeting place for internationally renowned musicians and up-and-coming performers.

Some of the current and up-and-coming performers were somewhat star-struck by all of the celebrities around.

The show will include more than 200 stand-up comedians - some, already celebrities; others, up-and-coming performers.

The Liberace Foundation, which provides college scholarships to up-and-coming performers, continued to function.

While I question their corporate belief that money has a place in the art of making music, here's some advice for up-and-coming performers:

Today and next week this column will profile several up-and-coming performers who straddle the border between music and comedy.