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FWIW, for hotels, if you want a residency music gig and want to book a band for a hotel, you need to ask for "Food and Beverage", get the person's name, stalk t
by mahmud 17y ago
FWIW, for hotels, if you want a residency music gig and want to book a band for a hotel, you need to ask for "Food and Beverage", get the person's name, stalk them on facebook or myspace and befriend them slowly then show them your band's repertoire.
Booking bands is an entry level sales project for hotels. But if you can get a band through, you can get more things later.
- mahmud 17y agoIt's also customary to get such deals through the local entertainment publications. Most big cities have a free newspapers about nightlife; the editors of those papers are bored 40-somethings, from my experience, and if you have a band, you can offer them a commission; if their band is booked within a month from a referral they make X amounts of dollars, to them personally, not the paper. The editors will plug your band and will mention you and your musicians to hotel chain managers. Nightlife papers are not exactly official newspapers, and their journalists are easy to play ball with. However, they guy as much access to local happenings as regular newspapers, if not more.