Re: [Harp-L] Paying the Piper

[David Payne <dmatthew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

We got a steak dinner when we were playing at the Texas Roadhouse every week. That was a lot of fun. In West Virginia, food is customary compensation for musicians if no money is available. The deal is, the jams are typically fundraisers for something, so whatever fund, whatever guy has cancer, whatever family's house burned down, whatever, they get the $$$. We get the food. 
 If we don't get food, we get mad and never come back. 
Anything that is not a benefit, you get a check AND food. 

Those are the customs of my mountain people. It is perhaps different elsewhere.




Dave
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----- Original Message ----
From: Bill Kumpe <bkumpe@xxxxxxx>
To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 10:27:09 AM
Subject: [Harp-L] Paying the Piper

I am looking for input as to how other groups compensate the professional
musicians that staff regularly scheduled jams.  I was under the impression
that the customary arrangement was to have a tip jar or pass the hat to help
them pay for their time and expenses.  My Baptist background leads me to
prefer passing the hat since it allows me to dish out a little group guilt
and usually increase the sometimes disappointing results.  Does it make any
difference that some of these musicians jam at other places of their own
choosing without compensation?

Bill Kumpe
Route 66 Harmonica Club
Tulsa, OK  

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