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Pitching your artist or your band at the right price and time is critical!

Posted: Oct 18, 2022

Category: Live Performance

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**Guest post written by Dennis Kurtz of What's Next Nashville.

 

Dennis Kurtz


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Last week I made the point that you are worth what you can draw! This is true if you are doing a hard ticket show...Most original music artists build themselves as a hard ticket, but also play soft tickets shows along with their hard ticket shows. Usually as a seller I try to find out what the budget is in these situations before I quote a price...Typically, here is how these gigs are priced..."

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Digging Ditches Vs. Cover Gigs

Posted: Dec 3, 2018

Category: The Musician Business

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**Guest post written by Matt Santry, independent musician and founder of the Well Paid Musicians Club.

 

DiggingvsCovers


"There’s a character named James [in the Netflix series "Westside"] who works construction by day. In the first episode, he asks his boss to cut his hours down to 3 days a week so he can have time to practice for an upcoming show. They show James digging ditches, tearing down walls and doing backbreaking manual labor...This is insanity to me! He's a talented guy. So why couldn't he do 1 cover gig at a private event and make that same amount [of money]?"

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