As an artist, you will, or already have been exposed to show opportunities where you have to sell a certain amount of tickets before you can perform.
The only catch is that you have to either buy the tickets up front or sign a contract agreeing to pay a certain amount to the promoter on the night of the show before you perform.
The promoter usually will sell you around 200 tickets for 1.00 each, then tell you that you can resell the tickets for 3.00 to 5.00 dollars each to your fans and make your money back plus make a profit.
Show night comes around, and you and your people get there, and you figure out that there are about 30 artist performing and they all did the same thing that you did. So what that means is that whenever an artist performs that there is a little section of their friends and family that are exclusively there to see, cheer, and support that particular artist, and when that artist is done, they leave and so does their crowd.
On the night of the show, you're short on the 200.00 and have to come up with the difference out of your pocket. In addition, you're nervous and you're hoping that the people who have tickets actually come. On top of that, you look around and you slowly begin to realize that there are about 40 other artist who did the same thing that you did.
When you get to the showcase, you eventually realize that it is really more like a big talent show with no prize because the audience mostly consist of friends and families of the various artist that are performing.
That's ok if your set is close to the beginning of the set, but if you're near the end of the show, then you may end up performing for a bunch of chairs. That's actually ok also if you need to get more experience performing.
These types of shows are good if you need practice on your performance or getting the kinks out of your stage fears, but not very helpful to your career in my opinion.
On the other hand, if a major artist in your genre is coming to your town and going to do a show, and the same opportunity arises (you have to sell tickets in order to open up for them), jump on it...because this is a different situation.
On top of that people don't know that you pretty much bought the opportunity to open up for this major artist, so they will automatically think that you are a legitimate up and coming act that is possibly associated with the major artist that is performing.
So basically, showcases with no major headliner.....NO, unless you need the practice performing in front of hostile audiences. Showcases with major headliners in your genre.....YES, but make sure you are show ready..for real!
So, I wouldn't do showcases with no major headliners unless I needed to work on my show jitters, but I would open up for major artist, and when I did, I would have somebody recording it so that I could post it up on youtube and everybody could see me rocking the stage with 5000.00 screaming fans!
The only catch is that you have to either buy the tickets up front or sign a contract agreeing to pay a certain amount to the promoter on the night of the show before you perform.
The promoter usually will sell you around 200 tickets for 1.00 each, then tell you that you can resell the tickets for 3.00 to 5.00 dollars each to your fans and make your money back plus make a profit.
Show night comes around, and you and your people get there, and you figure out that there are about 30 artist performing and they all did the same thing that you did. So what that means is that whenever an artist performs that there is a little section of their friends and family that are exclusively there to see, cheer, and support that particular artist, and when that artist is done, they leave and so does their crowd.
On the night of the show, you're short on the 200.00 and have to come up with the difference out of your pocket. In addition, you're nervous and you're hoping that the people who have tickets actually come. On top of that, you look around and you slowly begin to realize that there are about 40 other artist who did the same thing that you did.
When you get to the showcase, you eventually realize that it is really more like a big talent show with no prize because the audience mostly consist of friends and families of the various artist that are performing.
That's ok if your set is close to the beginning of the set, but if you're near the end of the show, then you may end up performing for a bunch of chairs. That's actually ok also if you need to get more experience performing.
These types of shows are good if you need practice on your performance or getting the kinks out of your stage fears, but not very helpful to your career in my opinion.
On the other hand, if a major artist in your genre is coming to your town and going to do a show, and the same opportunity arises (you have to sell tickets in order to open up for them), jump on it...because this is a different situation.
On top of that people don't know that you pretty much bought the opportunity to open up for this major artist, so they will automatically think that you are a legitimate up and coming act that is possibly associated with the major artist that is performing.
So basically, showcases with no major headliner.....NO, unless you need the practice performing in front of hostile audiences. Showcases with major headliners in your genre.....YES, but make sure you are show ready..for real!
So, I wouldn't do showcases with no major headliners unless I needed to work on my show jitters, but I would open up for major artist, and when I did, I would have somebody recording it so that I could post it up on youtube and everybody could see me rocking the stage with 5000.00 screaming fans!
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