The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #57527   Message #909388
Posted By: GUEST,John Hernandez
13-Mar-03 - 04:46 PM
Thread Name: Booking Sucks!
Subject: RE: Booking Sucks!
Bitch and moan. Bitch and moan. Bitch and moan. You'd be better taking Jazzyjack's advice above, or recalling what Suffet wrote in his "Real Folksinger" thread last year:

A real folksinger doesn't worry about bookings. A real folkinger creates his/her own venue. On street corners. In campgrounds. In parks. In schools. At parties. At family gatherings. Wherever and whenever the opportunity arises. A real folksinger plays in hospitals, and hospices, and old age homes. A real folksinger plays in prisons, and libraries, and bus stations, and at street fairs. And a real folksinger doesn't whine and bellyache and complain because such and such club or festival wouldn't have him/her.

Or else think about what the Weavers did when they were blacklisted and no one would produce them. They rented Carnegie Hall and put on their own show! I know that's extreme, but how about renting a church or school auditorium? Or getting the manager of the local coffee shop to let you put on a show? If you build it, they will come -- especially if you have any talent! Then you can stop whining and grow up already.