Living On Gigging

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Musicians and Venues: Raising the bar

To all the musicians out there who love music, love their life of music, and love to make a living through music, listen up! I need your help creating a database of venues around the world who appreciate and therefore pay decent guaranteed fees to musicians performing mostly original music. Every musician that participates (which means giving the name and some details about a venue you KNOW pays and treats musicians decently) will gain access to the “Gigs That Guarantee” database.

Posted in Making Money Tagged database, gigs that guarantee, Making Money, raise the bar, venues

Making Money

I used to think that NYC musicians are doomed to playing in clubs that pay $1 per person after the first $50 is collected if you brought more than 40 people. WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN????? Luckily, I have learned that there are gigs out there that pay you decently in exchange for your performance. Simple as that. Some of these gigs are in unexpected places: house parties in peoples’ private homes, ski resorts’ après ski, summer camps, high schools, colleges, restaurants, museums, to name a few. It takes a lot of legwork and a good phone plan but the money is out there, right next to the eager listeners.

Posted in Making Money, Music Industry Tagged apres ski, campes, day job, gigs, house parties, industry jobs, making money, Making Money, selling cds, shameless plugs, supplementing money, teaching

House Concerts: Landing and Sticking the Gig (as seen in Keyboard Magazine Sept ’08)

As a touring musician, there’s only one thing better than connecting with an audience of thousands of people…. doing it again. And what I’ve come to realize is that it’s not the number of people that matters, but that connection. With all that said, I have come to find a nice little niche of music venues where the audience is primed for connectivity . . . living rooms and backyards.

Posted in Making Money, Touring Tagged concert host, gig, house concert, house venue, keyboard magazine, private concert, private party, sara barielles
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