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I tried to lineup some gigs for my stage but the only person I could get was my neighbor with his machete and Bluetooth speaker..
I use sidedooraccess.com to book musicians. Set up your profile, list your open dates and musicians contact you to book.
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On 9/25/2023 at 5:13 PM, Deej said:

I tried to lineup some gigs for my stage but the only person I could get was my neighbor with his machete and Bluetooth speaker..

Bluetooth Machete is a great band name.

Y'all holler when you have Surlyfest GuitarPron All Stars. Maybe I'll come and take pics.

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On 9/25/2023 at 6:54 PM, Nuge said:
On 9/25/2023 at 3:13 PM, Deej said:
I tried to lineup some gigs for my stage but the only person I could get was my neighbor with his machete and Bluetooth speaker..

I use sidedooraccess.com to book musicians. Set up your profile, list your open dates and musicians contact you to book.

I used backdooraccess.com and was contacted by south austin's mom

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On 9/25/2023 at 2:16 PM, Nuge said:

This was a passion project for me and was a great success.  I have a ton of artists reaching out to me to play on the stage.  I'm still trying to build an audience and am only averaging 20-30 people.  I'd like to get it up to 50 so the musicians can make some money.  With everything getting to be so expensive its driving the artists and musicians further out of town.  I'm just doing what I can to help.

Man, I'm impressed and happy for you.  Obviously, our stressed-out and isolated modern societies need to get back to having these shared, communal experiences.  I've thought of starting something similar in the vein of storytelling - like a "Moth" radio-hour kind of thing, maybe with a musician doing 2 or 3 songs as an icebreaker opening act.  

Anyway, kudos to you.  

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I wish I had a place to host these things.  I live in a suburb of Atlanta and a buddy was doing them for several year, but they recently moved back to Ft. Worth.  He would generally get about 50-60 at his house.  $20 a head, all went to the artists.  People brought food to share and drinks.  A couple of times, (Darden Smith, Jason and Courtney and Jimmy LaFave) he sold enough tickets to have the shows at a local church.  Darden even covered the cost of the rental of the church the last time he was through here.  

Other artists he had at his house:  Kim Richey, Walt Wilkens, Sam Baker, Bob Livingston, Gretchen Peters, Jason Eady, Courtney Patton among others.    He usually did 5-6 shows a year.  

@Nuge  With that location, you should check with Jeff Plankenhorn.   He spends a lot of time in SE Canada.  

 

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10 minutes ago, hullabelew said:

Other artists he had at his house:  Kim Richey, Walt Wilkens, Sam Baker, Bob Livingston, Gretchen Peters, Jason Eady, Courtney Patton among others.   

My brother-in-law is friends with Walt, as they went to Anderson HS (Austin) together.  He took me to a show at a church on the north edge of campus a few years back.  I knew absolutely nothing about Walt.  Holy smokes, that guy is the real deal.  Gifted and humble.

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Had a friend that booked bands at a gallery warehouse in DC they rented and he'd pay the band with a recording of their set.  Later, when they got bigger groups, they'd give them a percentage of the door.  All they did was just try to make rent which worked for the 10 years they were open.  Never turned a profit, however, but lots of great memories.  Did it again later on the border of West Virginia and Maryland with mostly Americana/Bluegrass musicians.  He converted an old barn into a recording studio and bands would play at the restaurant/venue and/or he'd record them at the barn. He just retired this last year.  When asked why, he said he could no longer take all the recording retakes.  

Good stuff. Awesome that you made it happen.  

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Through the years, I got to see a lot of bands play in rooms that could only fit one deep.  Future Islands and The War on Drugs are two that immediately spring to mind.  So many others were super, crazy talented but just never made it.  But those rooms were rocking and they gotta start somewhere.

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On 5/6/2024 at 8:52 AM, hullabelew said:

I wish I had a place to host these things.  I live in a suburb of Atlanta and a buddy was doing them for several year, but they recently moved back to Ft. Worth.  He would generally get about 50-60 at his house.  $20 a head, all went to the artists.  People brought food to share and drinks.  A couple of times, (Darden Smith, Jason and Courtney and Jimmy LaFave) he sold enough tickets to have the shows at a local church.  Darden even covered the cost of the rental of the church the last time he was through here.  

Other artists he had at his house:  Kim Richey, Walt Wilkens, Sam Baker, Bob Livingston, Gretchen Peters, Jason Eady, Courtney Patton among others.    He usually did 5-6 shows a year.  

@Nuge  With that location, you should check with Jeff Plankenhorn.   He spends a lot of time in SE Canada.  

 

Jeff is playing at my friend's house in Detroit this Friday 5/17.

Small world

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