Re: [Harp-L] Paying the Piper

[Bill Hines <billhines4@xxxxxxxxx>]

At our jam, it's run by the blues society. so we have a jam committee 
and about 6 people take turns running it. The person running it just 
slots the performers from the sign up sheet and mans the sound board. We 
have some volunteers who are always there and set up the backline 
(drums, amps, PA, mics) that are owned by the blues society. We do pay 
one person who always puts everything away at the end of the night 
though, since nobody wants to stay until 1am to do that. He's the only 
one that gets paid and it ain't much.

There is no house band. At 8pm the first set is slotted and off we go. 
They get 4 songs or 30 mins, whichever is less, then the second set is 
up. No house band drudgery to wait through and hold your hand when you 
are playing. Each set has a completely different set of musicians so 
everyone gets to play, sometimes often in the course of a night with 
different folks. It's not unusual for us to run 10 or more sets in a night.

Bill Hines

Garry Hodgson wrote:
> the way it worked at the last jam i was a part of was this:
> the house paid the guy who ran it some amount per night.
> he in turn paid the sound guy, himself, and everyone in the
> band except for the harp player (me).  that worked for a
> while, as i was glad to get the experience.  but it eventually
> wore thin.  i don't go there anymore.
>
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