How to Get Gigs You Love (ebook)

Description

You’ll learn:

-how to find and focus on venues that have a budget to pay you
-how to package your repertoire so that you create a powerful, impactful show that is attractive to venues and audiences
-how to book a paid show: who to approach and what to say, how to talk about money (and gently haggle, when that’s called for), and how to decide if an opportunity fits you and your show
-how to handle the business of booking (and the appendix contains templates of essential documents that you can adapt for your own use: a great time-saver)
-the attitudes and actions that will get venue hosts talking about you, starting the delicious process of word-of-mouth invitations and ensuring you’re asked to return to perform again
-to see yourself and your performing career with a new, empowering vision

For more than a decade, I’ve made a living as a working musician and storyteller. I’m not rich, I’m not famous, but I AM well-paid, sought-after, and truly happy. I get to sing, harp, and tell stories in wonderful rooms and with wonderful audiences all over New England, and I earn good money while doing it. I wrote this book to teach and encourage others like me how to go about creating a performing life that offers money, fun, and opportunity. I truly believe you can do this because I’ve done it myself.

Whether you want to go all-out and make performing your main source of income or you simply want to play more gigs and earn more money than you do at the farmer’s market or café, How to Get Gigs You Love will help you create the vibrant, well-paid, exciting performing life of your dreams!