I play acoustic music for various bars and restaurants in my area, Monterey County, California, and we get 250 to 350 a night and the music scene here sucks. I imagine if we were playing some place that people gave a crap, we would make 500 a night, but I am not sure. We are blessed to have a decent reputation around here. As far as I am concerned, if you are bringing in 30-60 people, and they are drinking, that is worth something. If you are bringing in people and they are paying at the door, you deserve a cut or something proportional. If you are playing for whoever happens to be there, then you deserve the going rate for live musical entertainment in your area. Not all places will pay though. Some think they are doing you a favor by letting you play there.psilopsyche wrote:Hey everyone.
I will be starting my musical beginnings this week, and I was wondering about how you musicians by trade do financially. Obviously there are huge differences in how much various artists make, but I have no idea whatsoever what a musician makes who performs live.
How much would you make, say... if you filled a club with 30-60 people?
How much would you make if you performed at something like Burning Man?
How do you make a living in general?
Thank you very much!
-psilo
Thanks for the input, it really helps.Fizmarble wrote:
I play acoustic music for various bars and restaurants in my area, Monterey County, California, and we get 250 to 350 a night and the music scene here sucks. I imagine if we were playing some place that people gave a crap, we would make 500 a night, but I am not sure. We are blessed to have a decent reputation around here. As far as I am concerned, if you are bringing in 30-60 people, and they are drinking, that is worth something. If you are bringing in people and they are paying at the door, you deserve a cut or something proportional. If you are playing for whoever happens to be there, then you deserve the going rate for live musical entertainment in your area. Not all places will pay though. Some think they are doing you a favor by letting you play there.
yes, but are you happy..bet you areSales Dude McBoob wrote:I make about -10k a year
My missus is basically the same - and really the money she gets is pretty good for the hours she does - she often complains about the gigs but I have to remind her of the shit I had to do in my last full time job where I got for a whole week what she gets in 2 gigs and she can sort her own tax out and get the perks that come with that while half of mine was taken awy by tax and pension and shitFizmarble wrote:[
-psilo
I play acoustic music for various bars and restaurants in my area, Monterey County, California, and we get 250 to 350 a night and the music scene here sucks. I imagine if we were playing some place that people gave a crap, we would make 500 a night, but I am not sure. We are blessed to have a decent reputation around here. As far as I am concerned, if you are bringing in 30-60 people, and they are drinking, that is worth something. If you are bringing in people and they are paying at the door, you deserve a cut or something proportional. If you are playing for whoever happens to be there, then you deserve the going rate for live musical entertainment in your area. Not all places will pay though. Some think they are doing you a favor by letting you play there.
, although I do have a wanky dayjob that pays well and keeps the bailiffs from the door. 