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+ Learn more: Whether you’re gigging on college campuses or in college towns, playing directly to young music fans nationwide is a great way to build your touring fan base! Learn how to get started with our FREE course “Touring on a Shoestring!”ģ) College Shows Pay an Average of $1,200 + Expenses for a 70-Minute Set It’s the school’s sole responsibility to get people to their “event.” You just need to show up and play. Unlike splitting the door with a club, colleges hand you a check after your show for the job you performed. Whether 5 or 500 come to the show, you get paid the same. Of course if you are a famous act to the school’s students you can demand more money, but in general, colleges will book high quality talent regardless of their draw, sales numbers, radio plays or Facebook likes. They care that you will entertain their students. The entertainment committees at these schools don’t care if you bring 1,000 people to your clubs shows or 10. Whether you are a comedian, singer/songwriter, band, hypnotist, magician or juggler, you serve the same purpose: entertainment. 2) You Don’t Need a Fanbase to Get High Paying BookingsĬolleges book talent to entertain their students. Some acts who make $100,000 a year in college bookings, can’t bring 20 people out to a club show in their hometown. Building a fan base for your career is quite different than building a career within the college circuit.
These are completely different industries. You cannot approach sleeping arrangements for college shows the same way you approach sleeping arrangements for club shows (unless you want to get arrested or sued by daddy). You cannot approach advancing college shows like you approach advancing club shows. You cannot approach college booking like you approach club booking. You cannot approach college shows like you approach club shows. The college industry is not the music industry. 1) There Is Very Little Overlap Between the Music Industry and the College Industry
Here are 9 things that you probably didn’t know about the college entertainment market.
If you know and understand club and festival touring, prepare for your world to be turned upside down. But these kinds of shows aren’t quite what you’d think. From the schools surrounded by a hundred miles of corn to the those with 40,000 students located in the center of densely populated metropolises, I’ve done them all. As someone who has played over 100 official university sponsored shows around the country, it’s a field I know quite intimately. This article originally appeared on Ari's Take.Ī lot of musicians want to play colleges, but most don’t really know what that means.
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