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Everybody wants the big gig. But, as any princess knows, sometimes you have to kiss a lot of frogs before you find the one that pays off. You have to be as creative about finding a place to play your music as you are about making the music you play. The biggest reason artists don’t get gigs is because they don’t know where to look for them. If you ask people on the street where musicians perform, most of them will give you the name of some local club. A few will say at some party or something. But most will overlook an entire list of other places that could become opportunities for you to play, make money, sell CD’s and otherwise behave like a working musician.
When you’re trying to get a gig – also known as “booking shows” – expand your focus to include lucrative and/or enjoyable shows and don’t limit yourself to the usual venues or to trying to get into the best club in town. Those days will come. In fact, if you work hard enough, the day will come when those club owners will be trying to contact you. For now, or when you are beginning, it pays to be more flexible and less picky about where you play.
I’ve played at frat parties, county fairs, company picnics, family reunions, and almost everywhere else a musician can work – including the traditional “weddings, parties, bar mitzvahs and funerals.” I’ve played gigs in bars on Saturday nights, loaded out, drove home, changed clothes, and then took that same gear (usually keyboards or maybe a guitar) to a church and played a concert there. (The people who saw me in both places didn’t say anything because they didn’t want to admit that they had been to the same places!) I’ve also played in clubs and other venues that are more like what you would expect. The point is that when you love to play and you need the work, you do whatever it takes wherever it happens to be, especially when you’re first getting started and you have to make a payment on your gear.
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