Jazz+ Posted November 26, 2013 Share Posted November 26, 2013 What are you bidding this year? $150 an hour with a 2 hour minimum? Piano provide d by venue. 50 cents per mile travel fee. Same rates as Thanksgiving? Harry was the Technical Editor of Mark Levine's "The Jazz Theory Book" and helped develop "The Jazz Piano Book." Find 850 of Harry's solo piano arrangements of standards and jazz tutorials at https://www.patreon.com/HarryLikas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synthoid Posted November 26, 2013 Share Posted November 26, 2013 What are you bidding this year? $150 an hour with a 2 hour minimum? I wish. Around here you're lucky if you get paid $50 an hour. When an eel hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's a Moray. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
resigned Posted November 26, 2013 Share Posted November 26, 2013 Flat rate of $100/hour, three hour minimum, bill for playing time only - no travel or setup fee. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frogmonkey Posted November 26, 2013 Share Posted November 26, 2013 I often price myself out of the market on purpose. This year I have three gigs right in town! The first two are 40 minutes each, for $100 each. The third starts at midnight, and goes until we're good and finished. It is to be the final gig for a good band that I've played with for years, that is calling it quits. I'll probably make $100 on that one too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RetroVintageOld Posted November 26, 2013 Share Posted November 26, 2013 I don't know how you would compare information from different geographical regions. Every scene is different and some are willing to pay much more for entertainment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip Clark Posted November 26, 2013 Share Posted November 26, 2013 I won't step out of the house on NYE for less than $300 for the night. Soul, R&B, Pop from Los Angeles http://philipclark.com Cannonball Gerald Albright Signature Alto, Yamaha YC73, Fender Rhodes, Roland Juno-106, Yamaha MX61, Roland VR-09, MicroKorg XL, Maschine Mikro, Yamaha Reface CP, Roland MKS-50 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J. Dan Posted November 26, 2013 Share Posted November 26, 2013 I don't have experience doing piano-only gigs, but generally for my bands, it's been about 2-3x my normal rate for NYE. Dan Acoustic/Electric stringed instruments ranging from 4 to 230 strings, hammered, picked, fingered, slapped, and plucked. Analog and Digital Electronic instruments, reeds, and throat/mouth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stillplaying Posted November 26, 2013 Share Posted November 26, 2013 The rate Dan said for me too. We never do that hourly thing btw - you hire us and we're yours 'till the death. All night if you're game and the gig's so far north we're staying over anyway. I'm the piano player "off of" Borrowed Books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffLearman Posted November 26, 2013 Share Posted November 26, 2013 New Years Eve? The night of the most gigs? Peak demand? I'd expect it to be 3x. Are there really more acts available than there are gigs to be had on New Years Eve? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reezekeys Posted November 26, 2013 Share Posted November 26, 2013 Here's what I know about the New York City area scene: since the debacle of the "millenium" 1999-2000 NYE gigs where most of the NYC club date bands priced themselves in the stratosphere and the venues lost their shirts, I have gone a few years without getting a single call for NYE. Or, a local restaurant gig for $100 or so which I turn down. Before 2000 I would make between $700 and $1200 for a NYE gig. Nowadays the established club date offices will pay the same or perhaps a little more than regular non-NYE bread. And, there are plenty of people that still get calls to do NYE gigs for less. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I-missRichardTee Posted November 26, 2013 Share Posted November 26, 2013 Here's what I know about the New York City area scene: since the debacle of the "millenium" 1999-2000 NYE gigs where most of the NYC club date bands priced themselves in the stratosphere and the venues lost their shirts, I have gone a few years without getting a single call for NYE. Or, a local restaurant gig for $100 or so which I turn down. Before 2000 I would make between $700 and $1200 for a NYE gig. Nowadays the established club date offices will pay the same or perhaps a little more than regular non-NYE bread. And, there are plenty of people that still get calls to do NYE gigs for less. Ex Jerseyorker Wow.. "millenium" 1999-2000 is blamed.. those padded prices? I made the most ever on NYE 1999-2000 $1000 with a large band no less. a semi big band. But you are right, here in San Diego things have really slowed down. I have done NYE since a teen,,, and in the past 5 years I think there was finally one or two years I stayed home. And this is "nothing personal", my fellow musicians report the same thing. I think I am making just under $500 this year. Not good, but better than one year recently where I scuffled to do three short gigs and netted about $300!! You don't have ideas, ideas have you We see the world, not as it is, but as we are. "One mans food is another mans poison". I defend your right to speak hate. Tolerance to a point, not agreement Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J. Dan Posted November 27, 2013 Share Posted November 27, 2013 I'm sure there's probably a greater high to low margin at NYE - the bands that are in demand get top dollar, everybody else fights for scraps. Case in point, I won't be playing this year, and didn't play last year, but in my old band, we'd pull over $1,000 per man for NYE. The best was one year at a casino when NYE landed on a Monday. They booked us Fri-Sat at our normal weekend rate, Monday at NYE rate, and since we were already there, sunday at a reduced rate. 4 days in a row, 1 setup/teardown, $13,500 for the weekend for a 5-pc. If I could only do that EVERY weekend!!! Dan Acoustic/Electric stringed instruments ranging from 4 to 230 strings, hammered, picked, fingered, slapped, and plucked. Analog and Digital Electronic instruments, reeds, and throat/mouth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stillplaying Posted November 27, 2013 Share Posted November 27, 2013 Had my Millenium gig cancelled. That wasn't a good NYE for earning. Lots of silly rumours about how much a taxi was going to cost and drinks' prices being put up for the night. I'm the piano player "off of" Borrowed Books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stillplaying Posted November 27, 2013 Share Posted November 27, 2013 I won't step out of the house on NYE for less than $300 for the night. Quite right. That wallpaper looks expensive. Got to feed our addictions. I'm the piano player "off of" Borrowed Books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reezekeys Posted November 27, 2013 Share Posted November 27, 2013 Ex Jerseyorker Wow.. "millenium" 1999-2000 is blamed.. those padded prices? I made the most ever on NYE 1999-2000 $1000 with a large band no less. a semi big band. The padded prices that the club date offices charged hotels, catering places, etc. I made $1200 that NYE, prob the most ever for me on that date. As I remember, the hotels lost a lot of money. NYE gigs were never the same after that, at least for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
area51recording Posted November 27, 2013 Share Posted November 27, 2013 Back in the day in NJ if you were booked in a club for the month of Dec it was standard for NYE to pay double what a regular night would pay.....I had more than one club owner go with "Well, if you guys play NYE at the regular price, I'll guarantee I'll book you guys in Jan"...Jan gigs were hard to come by so it worked more than once. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I-missRichardTee Posted November 27, 2013 Share Posted November 27, 2013 Club owners get a lot of bad press, but I try to see it from their pov as well. You don't have ideas, ideas have you We see the world, not as it is, but as we are. "One mans food is another mans poison". I defend your right to speak hate. Tolerance to a point, not agreement Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synthoid Posted November 27, 2013 Share Posted November 27, 2013 4 days in a row, 1 setup/teardown, $13,500 for the weekend for a 5-pc. If I could only do that EVERY weekend!!! I'd be happy with a gig like that every quarter. When an eel hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's a Moray. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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