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Anyone doing a Sunday afternoon bar gig that draws a crowd

One of my bar owner clients wants me to produce some kind of music event that will work on a Sunday afternoon 3pm to 7pm. The current Sunday night Karaoke host is getting the boot for under-performing. I currently run a successful open mic jam on Thursday nights so the owner asked me if I could help. The bar does not have food but does have a BBQ joint next door that could be added to the promotion. The owner suggesting possibly a jazz / blues jam although this is not an upscale lounge that's going to attract real jazz musicians or fans. Just wondering if any one is consistently gigging at a club/bar on a Sunday afternoon ? What kind of music and crowds are you getting? Unfortunately this is a local neighborhood place that does not attract tourists near the beach. Nor is this a destination you would want to ride your motorcycle to on a nice Sunday. Basically a bar in a strip mall.
 
I'd go for a beer and some live blues on a Sunday, especially if there's barbecue (Santa Maria?) next door as a package deal.

A destination is what you make it. Work out tours with all the sports car and motorcycle clubs - those guys are just looking for excuses for a weekend drive and in Ventura you've got the roads and the 52-weekend weather.
 
You'll have to come up with something really unique to make it work, especially from 3-7. Yeah, count out any sports/NASCAR fans. Can't do a teen night because it's a bar. Karaoke didn't work. An open jam probably wouldn't cut it, too early in the day. Catering to a college crowd could work if it's near campus, but it sounds like it's not. Even then you'd need to push the hours back.

Maybe a world music type thing? Gypsy jazz one week, Celtic the next, etc., see if he can get his liquor distributor to do a wine tasting, put some Tapas out? That's if the place has the atmosphere to pull it off.
 
hmm..no exp with strip mall stuff..but I just played our (2nd annual) beach show on sunday 2-6 pm..and while i thought fri/sat wld be the.preferred beach bar days..I was dead wrong.
beach(outdoor events) duriing summer on sundays absolutly pack in the crowds.

so..if its an outdoor patio sun ray type o thing... should be awesome.
I look fwd to several more snday summer shows.
ymmv
 
I did that for years, but at a place right on the beach with a large built in tourist crowd.

I would say have a core rhythm section on hand each sunday, and invite a "special guest" to come in and do a set each week. Create a song book and make notes about what songs work and don't work, keep adding songs.
Invite girls.
invite girls who sing.
tell the bar to offer drink specials
have the one "drinking song" listed on the chalkboard, so that when you play that song, the whole bar gets $1 shots or something.
 

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