[Dixielandjazz] gigs

[Dixiejazzdata]

Well said Pat:   Gigs are where you find them or Make them, that big ole yellow Union Gig Bus broke down decades ago and ain't coming by anybody's house to get them and take 'em to a paid gig with free Beer, Food and Wimmin'...


There is always good work for GOOD  non clunker bands if they will go knock on some doors and get it.



And there are lots of punters out there looking just as hard to find some Live Jazz, where ever you get a gig it needs to be promoted and publicized, by the venue and the band to attract the punters,  if they don;t know you are there they ain't coming to hear ya.  And you need to start the publicity about two months in advance if possible because people have many choices and other life obligations to attend to and are not generally available to run out and hear you with a one or two day notice.



But heck we have said all this on this list  many times before and very few pay any attention to it, but Those that do are working a lot more than those who don't do it.   



Cheers,


Tom Wiggins









-----Original Message-----
From: Pat Ladd <pj.ladd at btinternet.com>
To: B.B. Buffington <dixiejazzdata at aol.com>
Cc: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Sun, Jun 2, 2013 3:24 am
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] gigs


Hi,
There are often posts bemoaning the lack of music available in a particular 
area.

There was the annual village  Music Festival in the field next to my house 
yesterday From around 10 in the morning until midnight. There was a constant 
stream of local bands/groups.soloists performing all day. Acoustic in the 
afternoon. Electric in the evening. Some very talented people,some clunkers. Not 
a whiff of OKOM  all day.Must have been 20 or so performances.
The local weekly newspaper lists 26 gigs scheduled in the next week within a 
radius of 10 miles. Again no OKOM
Some of these are folk, one or two blues, too many tribute bands although some 
are very good.Only one disco. Most of these gigs are in pubs and play to 
reasonably size audiences.
I know there are one or two OKOM gigs around which are not listed in the paper 
because,I suspect, some snotty nosed kid makes up the reports and he has never 
heard of Jazz and doesn`t consider it worth reporting.
Seems there must be opportunities to get in on some of these venues.Perhaps we 
just don`t push hard enough. When I am in a pub I often ask the landlord if they 
have any jazz nights. There is  no demand for that sort of music is often the 
reply. That immediately opens up the response, Have you tried?. Why not give it 
a go?
I got my band into a pub which had no musical history at all on the promise that 
we would play for our beer once a week for a month and then let the landlord 
decide.
That resulted in a 7year gig, every Tuesday night and persisted through 3 
changes of landlord.

Opportunities exist but they take chasing down

Pat
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