Mark Zubek is a successful musician, producer and composer originally from Toronto. He has worked with Jack DeJohnette, Dave Holland, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Wynton Marsalis and written jingles for companies like Coca-Cola, Dunkin’ Donuts and The Discovery Channel. Mark studied at the Berklee College of Music…
Continue Reading →There are many levels of sideman work, from playing in a small-town cover band to backing up Sting, and lots in between. Regardless of the size of the gig, the skills needed are mostly the same. Musicians who master these skills are among the most…
Continue Reading →The Surflight Theater in New Jersey is seeking an Assistant Music Director and 2nd Keyboardist… for it’s summer season. The AMD also serves as the music director of the kid’s shows at Surflight. The pay isn’t listed, but rumor has it that it ain’t rock-star
Continue Reading →A few days ago it seemed the $50 million that Barack Obama set aside for the National Endowment for the Arts in the U.S. stimulus package had been stripped from the bill entirely. But news surfaced today that the funding had been re-included in the…
Continue Reading →We often write about musician-related politics and legislation here on MW, but one thing we haven’t done is tell you how you can get involved with influencing arts policy in the United States.
Contact your representatives
The first way to get involved is to contact…
New York Governor David Paterson recently announced a proposal to add a 4% sales tax to Broadway tickets New York City. Broadway officials quickly denounced the idea…, saying that the tax would put undue strain on an already struggling industry and inevitably lead to
Continue Reading →UPDATE thanks to Chris Brummond – not the $8.3 billion requested, but the $50 million is apparently still on the table: link…
I was really disappointed this week when Congress decided to strip the stimulus bill of the $50 million that was going to the
Continue Reading →OK, so it’s more like ten or fifteen cents, or that many ways of making cents, or making sense, as a freelance singer.
Hi. My name is Erika Lloyd and I am a freelance singer living in New York City. To achieve a tad of…
The New York Times recently reported that $18.4 billion was paid in bonuses to employees of financial companies in New York in 2008, despite a loss of 38% in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. That was the most severe loss… since the stock market crash
Continue Reading →Bad news about the economy streams out of the media like water from a bucket these days. As I talked about in yesterday’s article…, it’s clear from the closings of venues and performance groups that the economy is hitting musicians nationwide. It’s possible some
Continue Reading →There’s no way around it. We have a problem.
Arts organizations and venues across the globe are showing signs of a deep financial slide. According to recent reports, the worldwide economic maelstrom has caused the closing of nightclubs, symphonies, theaters, Broadway shows…
The purpose of this website is to provide sound, pragmatic advice about making a living as a musician, written by people that have hands on experience. My experience has been as a freelance musician playing my own music, booking my own gigs, producing my own…
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