The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #65999   Message #1091970
Posted By: breezy
13-Jan-04 - 01:25 PM
Thread Name: How do you make money in folk music?
Subject: RE: How do you make money in folk music?
Supply and demand

No demand


no money to be made.


Create a demand


kill off the freebee pub sessions


let musos go and play from their hearts


in their own privacy.


Dont unload your unreheased and unlearned tunes on me in a public place, it gets the genre a bad name.

Those sessions in Ireland , well someones paying the good musos to hold it together I bet.


Go Ron, come on santa.


Someone rang me for a gig tonight.

I'ld never heard of him and in turn he had never heard of the 'names 'that I've booked who've pulled in the punters.

He was looking for a paid gig?

You have to do alot of leg work to get known, and then for the right reasons, then in the end your integrity has been completely eroded.

Its all musical prostitution

Unless your a folkie like me who will not compromise.

I got a gig at the Moorland Folk Club and at Sharps this year, then one at the local nudist colony in the summer.

That'll do me.