How To Get More Jazz Gigs (New & Expanded)

Booking a gig doesn't happen on 'day one'...

It starts by connecting with and motivating organisers many months before the club programmes is announced or the festival starts.

That takes planning, preparation and a decent strategy, especially if you don't want to waste too much time working on this...

The How To Get More Jazz Gigs course was first launched in 2017 and has since helped 250+ jazz musicians around the world improve their bookings.

Just a few months ago, for the first time, the course has had a complete upgrade.

All-new recordings, up-to-date resources and examples, expanded lessons and additional topics.

So if you're looking to turbo-charge the way you approach tour booking for 2024 and beyond, the strategies included will help you get everything in place so your project is 'gig-ready'.

You get the same promise of a 30-day money-back guarantee and 1-to-1 support & feedback from an international booking agent.

Why is *that* musician getting more gigs than you?!

Think back to your pre-covid attempts to book gigs....

If you know you were making great music, but not getting booked at the clubs & festivals you wanted to play at, something needs to change this time around.

Maybe some of these common issues sound familiar...

• You're not sure which promoters you should be trying to reach?
• How can you break into a new country or territory?
• Do you know the most effective way to pitch your project?
• Does the whole booking process seem too time-consuming?
• How can you get gigs consistently?
• Don't know how to raise your profile so promoters take it seriously?
• Should you be asking for bigger fees?
• How can you make promoters consider you without an agent?
• Can you gain the confidence to 'sell' your project well enough?

Whatever the reason, getting too many rejections (or worse, ignored!) by jazz promoters can be pretty frustrating.

You've spent years of practice to get to the stage you're at now, but it often takes more than a killer project to get those within the industry motivated to book you.

It's normal that your 'booking skills' are not on the same level as your musical ones, but simply releasing more music and trying the same things to get gigs is unlikely to have massively different results, on its own...

A new 'post-covid' strategy for 2024?

If you want to make progress with your career in 2024 and beyond, you can learn some simple, proven methods for figuring all this out.

Make your booking time more effective, get promoters to take notice of your new music and build a solid plan for how to get the gigs you should be doing.

Wherever you're at right now in your career, How To Get More Jazz Gigs is a step-by-step video course designed to help you do this.

I've broken down the booking process into simple, manageable steps, which you can easily apply to your own project and booking efforts.

The result: a more organised & effective strategy to get gigs for your project.

As well as getting immediate access to the online content, you'll get multiple opportunities for feedback & support from an international jazz booking agent included, each month.

Think back to your pre-covid attempts to book gigs....

If you know you were making great music, but not getting booked at the clubs & festivals you wanted to play at, something needs to change this time around.

Maybe some of these common issues sound familiar...

• You're not sure which promoters you should be trying to reach?
• How can you break into a new country or territory?
• Do you know the most effective way to pitch your project?
• Does the whole booking process seem too time-consuming?
• How can you get gigs consistently?
• Don't know how to raise your profile so promoters take it seriously?
• Should you be asking for bigger fees?
• How can you make promoters consider you without an agent?
• Can you gain the confidence to 'sell' your project well enough?

Whatever the reason, getting too many rejections (or worse, ignored!) by jazz promoters can be pretty frustrating.

You've spent years of practice to get to the stage you're at now, but it often takes more than a killer project to get those within the industry motivated to book you.

It's normal that your 'booking skills' are not on the same level as your musical ones, but simply releasing more music and trying the same things to get gigs is unlikely to have massively different results, on its own...

IS YOUR PROJECT EVEN BEING CONSIDERED?

As an agent, I was contacted by at least 5 great jazz musicians looking for representation each week. Clubs and festival promoters receive many more!

The frustrating thing is that so many of these musicians aren't doing it as effectively as they could be...

• They're contacting agencies & promoters who don't work with their sort of music
• They copy/paste messages or send mass newsletters
• They pitch via long, rambling emails
• They use unclear descriptions of what they’re doing
• They're contacting the wrong person (info@...)
• They're uncertain of what they are actually looking for
• They have Ineffective promo materials that don’t quickly & simply describe the music…
• They're pitching too early or late for the programming team

If these pitches are ending up in the inbox of a festival promoter who's getting 50+ new proposals a DAY, I'm pretty sure a lot are getting deleted before even being heard...

I know: you're a musician, not a booking agent!

You spent years learning how to play, not manage your career...

You need time to focus on writing music & practicing your instrument...

But you also know that there are many more great bands in the world than booking agents.

So if you want to get more gigs for your project right now (instead of waiting around for someone to do it for you), the surest way is to learn how to book gigs for yourself as effectively as possible.

[And, as frustrating as it might seem, you massively increase your chances of finding an agent if you are out there gigging and proving that there's a demand for your project]

Basically, as long as you're taking care of making great music, this course will help you to figure out which festivals and venues you should be playing at and how you can start making better progress with booking gigs.

FACT: BOOKING GIGS DOESN'T HAVE TO BE COMPLICATED OR TIME CONSUMING

It’s certainly not something only available to agents with huge databases and personal connections.

You just need to use the right strategies to figure out which promoters around the world will be open to your project and then learn the best ways to reach them and get them interested.

This course will take you through each of these steps, in detail, so you have a clear plan for how to get better results in the coming months and years.

In fact, I did a survey a while back with around 50 international jazz promoters and one statistic in particular was pretty interesting:

Almost 60% of festivals & venue bookings were made directly with the band!
Source: Jazzfuel International promoter survey

So there's some proof that there are independent musicians out there, playing on a similar level to you, who are booking gigs and tours for themselves.

If you want to do the same, this course is a quick way to figure out how to do it.

HERE'S EXACTLY WHAT YOU'LL GET FROM THE COURSE...

20+ video lessons where I’ll talk you through the specific ideas and methods, step-by-step

Screencasts from my computer so you can see exactly how I use these resources to book gigs

Keynote slides to share the ideas that I’ve used at conferences and workshops around Europe over the last 5 years

Personal feedback via the comments sections. You ask any questions or share examples with me there and I’ll give tips and solutions.

Downloadable templates & guides which will help you:

• Pitch to promoters via email more effectively (you'll see examples of pitches I've sent and get templates to write your own)

• Build a list of the best venues & festivals for your project (I'll explain how and give you a template to get started)

• Put together a killer 1-sheet

• Keep track of your personal network (I’ll explain why this is super important!)

• Focus on the key festivals (with website links)

All this, to help you get a clear and effective plan for booking more gigs for your project in 2024 and beyond.

You'll learn about:

↪ Figuring out the 'right' promoters for your project
↪ Hunting down their contact details!
↪ How to contact promoters to grab attention & get replies
↪ Who the other people are that can help you develop your career
↪ How to present your project most effectively
↪ The different types of gigs out there
↪ How to create more 'news' to grab attention from festival promoters

The lessons (some of which have already been presented at international conferences & masterclasses around Europe) are broken down into short sections so you can spread out the content over days, weeks or months - as you want.

DECISION TIME: Ready to book more gigs for 2024 and beyond?

If you want something different for your project in the coming months and years, you probably need to do something different.

If your booking efforts so far haven’t been giving you the results you want, putting more time into the same methods won’t necessarily make a difference.

You don't need to spend more and more hours on this, but you do need to change the way you’re approaching it to see completely new results.

Join us inside the Jazzfuel PRO community before May 6th and get a personalised pitching email written for your project!

See you on the inside?

Since launching in autumn of 2017, more than 250 musicians from around the world have been working through the course lessons and getting feedback in the community.

WHAT DO SOME OF THE PAST STUDENTS THINK..?

(via an anonymous survey for past participants...)

The average rating for the feedback given during the course was 95%

92% said the level of detail in the lessons was GREAT

100% said they would recommend the course to other jazz musicians they knew

80%: Average score for the question "do you feel more confident about booking gigs in the next 6-9 months?"