You shouldn't have to become a marketer just to be discoverable.
You're already doing the hard part. Learning the songs, lugging the gear, playing the rooms.
So here's the deal:
Play gigs. Tell people where you're playing. We'll do everything we can to connect those dates with the venues, places and people looking for live music nearby.
We're out there finding gigs the same way punters do: venue pages, posters, local listings, the corners of the internet where grassroots music actually lives. There's a decent chance we've already found yours.
Originals or covers. Both count.
Original artists need rooms where new songs can be heard, audiences can grow and somebody can discover a band before everybody else does.
Covers bands keep pubs, clubs and local venues full week after week, giving people a reason to go out and keeping working musicians on stages.
One is not more real, more worthy or more grassroots than the other.
Whether you're building an audience for songs you wrote or playing songs people already love, if you're getting on stage in front of people, you belong on .
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If we've already found you: claim your place in and help us get it right.
Once it's yours, it's yours. Your profile, your dates, your story. Nothing changes on your page unless you say so, though the local curators who help keep accurate can still fix a wrong date for you.
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Add your next gig. It takes about a minute, and it puts you on the map. Literally.
It doesn't matter if you play originals or covers, weddings or open mics, three gigs a year or three a week. If you're making live music, you belong on the map.
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Open the map. See the live music around you tonight, tomorrow, this weekend. Walkable, a short drive, somewhere worth going.
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