How to Improve Your Band’s ‘Bookability’
What can you do to get the attention of local and out-of-town venues? Here are some tips to help your band out of a total booking rut.
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3 Quick Tips for Plotting a Righteous Tour Route
Help make your tours more successful with focused planning, and goal-oriented booking practices. Here are some tips to get you started.
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How to Get Through a Show When Everything Goes Wrong
When your live show truly starts to go off the rails, remember these words of advice, and turn the gig around to finish strong.
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An Open Letter to Venues
+ What are you working on? Share your musical goals with us and we’ll help you reach them. Tell us what you’d like to achieve and our team of professional musicians, educators, and music industry veterans will help you get there! Dear Venues, You — the bookers, talent buyers, space leasers, show promoters, and venue staff — are…
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The Pros and Cons of Touring in the Summer
Ah, summer. Beautiful weather, beach trips, bike trips, trips to who-cares-where… let’s just get on our bikes and GO! There’s nothing quite like that feeling of playing an outdoor gig in your neighborhood with the sun going down behind your band. But… is it the right time to go out on the road? That’s a…
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The Dos and Don’ts of Working for Free: The Musician’s Guide
Making money from your music gigs isn’t easy. Few creators are able to make a living solely off their music. In fact, incredible and talented musicians often have to work multiple jobs on top of playing gigs just to be able to afford gear and all the other expenses that come with creating. And even…
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I’m the Band Leader, You’re Not. I Know Better.
Band leaders have the answers, they have the final say, and they have ultimate decision making power. If anyone tells you different, tell them to read this.
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New Trends in Touring
Touring is the most direct, in-person way to bring your music to your fans, but that doesn’t mean it hasn’t changed as a result of new technologies!
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US Artists Touring Abroad: What You’ll Need and How to Procure It
+ Welcome to Soundfly! We help curious musicians meet their goals with creative online courses. Whatever you want to learn, whenever you need to learn it. Subscribe now to start learning on the ’Fly. For many artists, it’s a dream to see the world through the windshield of their vehicle. Touring and making a living on the road is an exciting…
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Opening Band Etiquette
I’m currently reading Meet Me in the Bathroom, an excellent oral history of the rock and roll resurgence in NYC at the turn of the century, written by Lizzy Goodman. Aside from the havoc that existed then, as the swan song of the “glory days of the music industry” was playing out and my own nostalgia…
