Larry, I have a bit of advice, and that is to look fo gigs outside of the city--When I was back in Philly, and still had the folkdance band(not to imply that Philly is NYC, or that we were on a par with Sorcha Dorcha) we drew fairly small numbers, but when we started doing gigs outside the city limits, we did much better--With much trepidation we took a booking at a suburban mall, and drew huge crowd, including more than a hundred dancers--they knew us and liked us, but wouldn't come into town for our gigs--gotta go to where the people are! (of course, as we made more money, there were more conflicts, and the band fell apart, but that is another story)--