1. How many minutes long are your sets, on average? 2. How many songs in an average set? 3. How do you determine what to charge for a show? 4. Do you ever 'donate' a performance to a charitable cause, and if so, how do you word the receipt for the taxman? 5. Do you ever use an agency? 6. What are your thoughts on union cards?
1. If the show's much less than two hours, we generally do only one set. Longer than that, we tend to do a long set and a short set, so for a three-hour show (which is about the longest we've done so far) we'd do about 110 minutes, then a 20-minute break, then 50 minutes. I think the length of time of our first sets has been increasing pretty gradually.
2. About 10-12 songs for a short set, about 20 for a long set.
3. So far we haven't played a show with a cover charge. (We've had some paid gigs but the owner has eaten the costs.)
4. Not yet, although we've talked about it and this may change in the future.
5. We don't have an agency or anything like that. I have talked to Chris about it but he says that it's difficult to get representation before you've demonstrated you can already make money.
6. There is a musician's union in Rhode Island (I think it's headquartered in Newport) but I don't know much about it. I tend to leave thinking about this sort of thing to Chris, since he's more of a professional musician.
I'm pretty uninformed about musician's unions in general -- I have some vague mental associations with the Petrillo Recording Ban and with various Jazz greats losing their cabaret cards, but I don't really know enough to have an opinion.
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Date: 2004-09-06 01:56 am (UTC)1. How many minutes long are your sets, on average?
2. How many songs in an average set?
3. How do you determine what to charge for a show?
4. Do you ever 'donate' a performance to a charitable cause, and if so, how do you word the receipt for the taxman?
5. Do you ever use an agency?
6. What are your thoughts on union cards?
Thank you very much!
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Date: 2004-09-06 07:27 am (UTC)2. About 10-12 songs for a short set, about 20 for a long set.
3. So far we haven't played a show with a cover charge. (We've had some paid gigs but the owner has eaten the costs.)
4. Not yet, although we've talked about it and this may change in the future.
5. We don't have an agency or anything like that. I have talked to Chris about it but he says that it's difficult to get representation before you've demonstrated you can already make money.
6. There is a musician's union in Rhode Island (I think it's headquartered in Newport) but I don't know much about it. I tend to leave thinking about this sort of thing to Chris, since he's more of a professional musician.
I'm pretty uninformed about musician's unions in general -- I have some vague mental associations with the Petrillo Recording Ban and with various Jazz greats losing their cabaret cards, but I don't really know enough to have an opinion.
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Date: 2004-09-07 06:11 am (UTC)