Get 'Em While They're Cold

Here’s a little story called Let’s All Learn to Commit, or: You Can Do It, I Know You Can, or: Yet Another How to Be A Hero for Independent Music PSA

So I'm playing at the Rockwood Music Hall in NYC next week, November 12. I texted a Brooklyn buddy, an actor friend, to see if we could have tea outside of the show. "OHMYGOD YOUR SHOW!" she responded. "I still have to get my tickets!!!!" And we commiserated about what she said next: "When I'm performing I'm constantly reminding people to get their tickets in advance; but then I'm on the audience side and I get amnesia."

As I read the words, I realized I often do, too.

So for me and for her and maybe for you, I'll say it again:

If you know you're going to a show, PLEASE BUY YOUR TICKETS IN ADVANCE. It helps in a million ways, but largely: the venue knows that people in that place want to see that artist and it helps the artist get booked again. And: There's a relationship between tickets sold and energy/time/money spent on promoting the show, so if the artist knows tickets are selling briskly, she doesn't have to spend more time and more energy and more money promoting the show, reaching out, doing press, howling into the void of the interwebs about how the show is happening and there are still tickets and are you, so-n-so, coming? and could you invite five friends and here's the link and the promo shot and could you please put the link in the comments so it'll stay high in the algorithm and.....

....like that.

And then she can spend more time writing and playing music, or sleeping and eating. Or nudging the internet about other things. Achem.

So, friends, what unspeakably good show are you going to coming up? And give us the link, so we can see where to buy tickets.

Love,

Your Friendly Neighborhood Loudmouth

(With my thanks to Alexis Scott, currently in rehearsal for a one woman show in NYC. Details coming soon.)