I'm hoping this thread will lead to some intersting postings. My question is this: How far ahead from today do you book concerts for yourself?

I ask this as I am now booking concerts well into the Spring of 2012.

I'm surprised sometimes when I offer gigs to friends on such and such a date, and they respond with something like: "WHAT ... that's weeks away! I don't even know what I'm doing tomorrow!"

At the other extreme are several performers I know who do this for a living. I'll not mention names ... that gets boring. But I well remember a conversation I had a couple of years ago with a well known American folksinger who tours a lot. This was in an October. As we visited, he complained that as of "the following June", he had no gigs. He said: "I've got a kid in college and by next June, I'm out of work!"

So ... how do YOU handle your bookings? How far ahead do you plan? cheers, bob(deckman)nelson