Tag: touring

Learn how to book tours and guarantee they’re successful at bringing out fans, selling music, and reaching new audiences with this collection of articles full of touring advice and resources.

  • 3 Reasons Songwriters Should NOT Quit Their Day Job

    3 Reasons Songwriters Should NOT Quit Their Day Job

    By Alan Semerdjian There’s this idea out in the world that unless we’re working as songwriters and doing music full-time — music solely — we’ve somehow failed or compromised our integrity as artists. I’ve come to understand this notion as flawed thinking. Let me explain. I have been writing, releasing, and performing music since the drummer in…

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  • 7 Strange (but Effective) Ways to Keep Your Voice Healthy

    7 Strange (but Effective) Ways to Keep Your Voice Healthy

    This article originally appeared on TakeLessons’ blog. As a singer, you probably know how important it is to take care of your voice — it is your instrument, after all! If you’re already staying hydrated and doing your daily warm-ups,  take it a step further by trying these strange (but effective) strategies in this guest…

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  • How to Travel with String Instruments

    How to Travel with String Instruments

    Summertime is upon us, and so is the glory of festival and touring season. If you are lucky enough to travel around to perform music at venues all over the country or world, chances are you’ll spend at least a little bit of time airborne en route to your next exotic destination. Many of us…

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  • 5 States with More Than 5 Awesome Cities to Tour Through

    5 States with More Than 5 Awesome Cities to Tour Through

    Smart touring means covering as many live markets as possible with the smallest amount of overhead. Being able to perform in cities a short distance away from each other saves your band transport costs, time, and energy. On major tours, small cities and college towns are often overlooked in states with big cultural epicenters, but…

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  • The 5 People You Need to Know When Booking Shows

    The 5 People You Need to Know When Booking Shows

    The music scene is a tricky place to navigate. It often feels like you can’t get anywhere without knowing the right people and that your fate is entirely in someone else’s hands. But many of the “gatekeepers” are actually there to help you, and knowing who to talk to at the right moment can mean the difference between booking…

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  • DIY Touring Course Now on YouTube!

    DIY Touring Course Now on YouTube!

    All 17 episodes of Soundfly’s “Touring on a Shoestring” course are now available on YouTube! Check out the full playlist here. With Soundfly courses on YouTube, you can easily share single videos, embed them in your own blog, or binge watch the whole series in a single sitting! And you can skip forward through the…

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  • The Musician’s Guide to Touring Japan

    The Musician’s Guide to Touring Japan

    Japan is one of the best places to share your music. If you weren’t already planning your tour there when this article popped up, you might as well start now! I just got off the plane not three hours ago, and looking back it was the best tour of my life. Let me share with…

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  • Off Notes: Live from Japan

    Off Notes: Live from Japan

    Happy Friday! This week’s edition of Off Notes is coming to you from Japan, where the masterminds behind Soundfly’s “Touring on a Shoestring” course have booked a tour of their very own (and where this Soundflyer tagged along in search of weird and wonderful goodies to spice up your Friday afternoon!). So read on for a (mostly) Asian-inspired…

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  • Marketing Advice for Young Bands with Dustin Nelson

    Marketing Advice for Young Bands with Dustin Nelson

    We recently sat down with the one and only Dustin Nelson, Marketing Director at New York City’s (Le) Poisson Rouge. He shared with us a ton of good tips and tools that an artist can use to get a booker’s attention, as well as what not to do. Check it out! You can find this…

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  • You Should Be Touring

    You Should Be Touring

    By Michael Corcoran Michael Corcoran is the CEO of musicSUBMIT, a music publicity service for DIY artists. This article was reblogged from musicSUBMIT’s tumblr, you can read the original here. Last month the CD Baby DIY Musician blog posted “Do traditional tours still make sense for independent artists” by guest blogger Jason Schellhardt. The blog post states that…

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