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Hi Spence
I'm the guy who did the cbggigs site. It was done very recently as a response to someone looking for pretty much what you're looking for so is still very fresh.
As I've said on another topic it now needs people to come on board. If everyone waits for it to be a big happening thing before doing that then it'll never happen.
It requires a sign-up because I'm not going to be adding everyone's info for every gig, you sign up and you can do all that yourself. I'll verify your account before it's activates so I don't get overloaded with spammers. These things don't happen by themselves and I need to make it low maintenance at my end or it ain't gonna happen at all.
Fair enough. I reckon lots of people will feel the same, there's already too many obligations on working players without another web site to have to keep your stuff up to date on.
You could try starting a group on the nation although last time I tried to do that it wasn't possible. I'm not sure how many gigging musicians are active here either. Good luck though.
Agreed, musicians are notoriusly competitive and when the pool of gigs is so small it doesn't help. Thought of trying Facebook? Most players promote themselves there so are already using it. I've created a cbggigs page there to go along with the site, I could add a corresponding group as well easily enough, may help the site get off the ground.
Is that your friend request that just came through?
here's the fb page https://www.facebook.com/cbggigs
Hi-perhaps I can help a little-basically the way I got going gig wise was via youtube videos-so if you haven't already, put up some vids-if peeps dig it then they get in touch and ask you to play a gig-that leads onto some other dude asking you to play another gig, then some guy out in Belgium asks you to play a festival, and so it goes..odlly enough, I've never actively sought out a gig-just put yer stuff out there-on cbn/youtube/facebook..thats all I did.
The Lord helps them as helps themselves....you've got to go there by yourself and put yourself about a bit. Well, truth be told, you've got to be prepared to put yourself about a lot...put in the hours and the miles. No one gig or event is going to make it for you, you need to be persistent, determined and hard working. Of course, a lot depends on what you are after..are you just looking for a place to play for fun, some public acclamation or to earn money..or a combination of all three?
Oh, and by the way...with all due respect to Cigar Box Nation...to get more gigs you'll you need to cast your net wider, and deal with the real big wide world to really start moving on. CBN is a great forum and super resource, but tends to be a little isolated from the rest of the Wide, Wide World who have never heard or seen a cigar box guitar before. That's where the real fun is to be had...preaching the gospel..and that has to be done face to face, not from behind a computer keyboard.
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