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House Concerts: The Cure For the Common Venue
Wondering where to book your next act? You might want to look no farther than the living room of one of your fans. Over the past few years, house concerts have grown in popularity for many reasons....
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How To Support the Indie Musician
Want to stimulate the local economy and do it for next to nothing? Support your local independent musician! It’s easy to do, says Texas musician and writer Tracy Ready, and there’s not a lot of cost...
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The Digest: Volume 5
The Digest is a weekly feature of the Sketchbook blog that provides an annotated listing of links to relevant articles about events, trends, people, and things that have a direct impact on us as...
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How to Replace a Musician In Your Band
Replacing a band member is as inevitable as the sunset. No matter how long a band has been together, someone will need to be replaced at some point. Whether the loss is because of poor health, a job...
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The Digest, Volume 8
The Digest is a weekly feature of the Sketchbook blog that provides an annotated listing of links to relevant articles about events, trends, people, and things that have a direct impact on us as...
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Ethics for Musicians: Case Study
Note: the following scenario has been fictionalized, but it is based on an actual event told to me by another musician. All names are completely fictitious and are not meant to resemble any individual...
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Should You Give Your Music Away?
Can you imagine someone asking you this question twenty years ago? I can’t. The fact is, the concept of giving one’s music away for free is a concept that has only surfaced in the last two or three...
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Gig Economics
You know that great feeling you get right after you’ve played a great gig at which everyone had a blast, the club owner was delighted, and you just got five crisp twenties counted into your hand for...
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Got Gigs? Here’s How to Get Them
If you’re a bandleader with little to no experience in booking shows, this guest blog by Deron Wade is for you. I talked with Deron on LinkedIn a few weeks back, and the conversation turned to booking...
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The Digest – March 23, 2013
Is the $1.99 Album the Next Big Thing for Musicians? Digital Music News On February 26th, Amazon decided to offer several albums at the fire sale price of just $1.99, including Bruno Mars’ latest...
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How To Book Better Gigs, Part 1
Most bands that have played bar gigs for a few months eventually get the itch to move on to a higher pay grade. It usually starts when a musician who hasn’t had the wedding/country...
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A Music Marketing Secret From the Big Top
Circus life under the big top We all need the clowns to make us smile. - Journey, “Faithfully” Next to Google, free is truly our friend. In fact, free is so popular on Google that it comes up nearly...
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