It is certainly valuable and worthwhile...I don't understand the desire or necessitity of giving the musicians all of the money...certainly they would understand that you can't do all this yourselves and need to hire some of it out for a percent of the door or a fixed amount perhaps or an hourly wage for doing some predescribed publicity and setup. I would feel bad making $150 if I knew people were making $0 and doing this over and over..if I made $100 and they made $50 for twittering and tweeting and setting up chairs, more power to them. But to each his own..but I would not look at this as an either/or...either we get a string of faithful, energetic volunteers, or we close the place down...money is changing hands and some could be diverted it seems to me to make this more sustainable..and it would not take that much...p.s. I would definitely do it for $50 if I was in the neighborhood..as well as some for free..but $50 is more enticing somehow. mg