Re: [Harp-L] Stop pay to play (Was Why Blues Jams are Important)

[The Iceman <icemanle@xxxxxxx>]

At street fairs and festivals, there is still that play for free request with the carrot "but you will get great exposure". After 30 years of gigging and even falling for that carrot quite a few times, I am here to report that, at least in my experience, "great exposure" did not get me any more gigs, but it did get the promoter a free band.


More gigs were directly related to my efforts to get more gigs.