Road Warrior now on Amazon!

My book Road Warrior Without an Expense Account is now available through Amazon.com! How cool is that? Now you can take advantage of Amazon deals and free shipping when ordering. If you haven’t picked up a copy and you’re a fan of the blog, doing so would...

Summer festivals – a good deal?

Adaptistration blogger and Inside the Arts mastermind Drew McManus recently put out a post about summer music festivals that really caught my eye. In this post (dated 6/27/08), Drew writes: Unlike regular season positions, music festivals have an added bonus by...

Twelve Survival Tips for Freelance Musicians

Over time, professional freelancers develop a set of skills quite peculiar to the profession, alternately taking on the role of long-haul trucker, delivery man, cabbie, and crisis control expert. Though they share the same basic musical skills as their more stably...

Instrumental Junkies Part 2: Musical Scavengers

Author note: One of my favorite things about summer is getting the chance to finally spend some time outside, and writing on my MacBook sitting under a tree with the birds chirping and the sun shining in the sky (which I’m doing right now) has to be one of...

Instrumental Junkies Part 1: Overview

The cycle repeats itself, the faces on the gigs and the music on the stand changing in a never ending cycle of concert halls, Styrofoam cups of coffee in underground orchestra lounges, hauling basses, stools, and stands out of parking garages. Kennedy Expressway...