How many gigs did you play in 2016?

[Spent]

Sadly, zero. Had to quit my band last year due to a promotion; higher income, less time for music. No regrets, family comes first. Thought my original project was going to back together until the drummer bailed. Been a long time since I've gone a year without a gig. Here's hoping it will the exception not the rule.

 

[mcnach]

45 here, but there's still another 3 to go...

 

[Smooth_bass88]

lots and lots and lots and LOTS. And my basses have the scars to prove it.

 

[Sigurd]

Two with my main band, but then again, that's about all we play in any given year. Besides being really frustrating, I'm getting burned out with never playing out with that band.

My wife plays piano and we both got a call from a local folk-rock group who lost their keys and bass at about the same time. We went on to play six shows with them this year and even made it onto their newest album, their third, released this year.

I played four concerts on baritone saxophone with the city's wind band this year.

 

[Macch5]

133 gigs, 12 groups. My favorite was my 40th birthday. 4 bands that I'm in played a set each and members of other bands I'm in sat in throughout the night. Did a full length album with one band and recorded an ep with a singer/songwriter I work with. Fun year, I'm hoping for more next year!

 

[Spidey2112]

0... I really need to change that number, in the near future, if only to maintain justification for my existence... not enough hours in a day. Rock on, brothers!

 

[NortyFiner]

Tried out with a buddy's little group, did a couple of coffee shops, nothing serious. Tabbed into the 1-12 category.

 

[Space Pickle]

0. I have lines on more gigs for 2017 though.

 

[micguy]

About 30 weekends at church - about 90 services. Would've been more if I didn't take a couple months off for back surgery and recovery.

 

[Grumry]

It's that time of year again, I figure it would be good to do this again... as we did in this thread a year ago... How many gigs did you play in 2015?

How many gigs did you play in 2016? You can include any that you still have coming up in December. NYE is technically December 31 so you can count that. Let's assume for these purposes we're talking paying gigs only, even if it was for small money. You can include pay-to-play and such if you collected money, even if you had a net loss, or if for some reason your band got paid but not you personally.

It was a quiet year for me after being pretty busy the prior year. I had a cover band I tried to launch that played maybe half a dozen gigs and folded. I had a few sub gigs as well, and getting new projects launched that aren't really out there yet. I don't have an exact count but it's only about a dozen. I did play in church more Sundays than not, but those aren't paid. I was on organizing committees for a couple of fundraisers where I got money for the band but didn't take a cut myself (would have just donated it back into the event anyway).

I'm an audio guy in Nashville. I average 300+ days a year and have(some years) set up at least a thousand bands in that time. This ranges anywhere from writers rounds, Broadway bands, showcases, and touring.

My current touring gig is slow for the winter months so the band changes are more and more frequent this time of year when I get my hours in the honky tonks.

The goal would be to have 200ish road days. That means one band per day(instead of 4-20 in a club) and exponentially more money for less work.

I'll take what I get.

 

[Goatrope]

I'll end up at 46 paying gigs this year. That's about all I can handle.

 

[SLO Surfer]

I'm at about 55 gigs for 2016. And that's with a super slow November and December at only two gigs for each of those months. It's been kind of nice with a slower than normal end to the year.

 

[madmanmerc]

4 songs. Is that considered a gig? Maybe half a gig

 

[Gluvhand]

I've only had 7 this year but we started in June and these are my first gigs in about 25 years. We have half a dozen on tap for 2017 already.

 

[packhowitzer]

somewhere between 55 and 60.

 

[MakoMan]

Not sure of the exact count, but with our gig next week it will be somewhere between 30-35 this year... waaay more than we ever dreamed

 

[dannylectro]

I play in 3+ bands... 110 gigs in 2016 according to my gCal... i lose track sometimes... this does not include recording sessions and such...

 

[JGbassman]

I probably did around 200+ gigs this year before getting off the road.

Now I'm just doing sub work, so 1-2 gigs a week. That might change if I work regionally, or I decide to do some more touring. (not likely)

 

[bassfran]

Final tally until the end of the month- 184.

Nearly 100 of which were the 2X weekly house gigs on DB. (Keeps those chops up ok.)

The rest were mostly my theater gig, (soon to close), and a handful of others sprinkled in.

 

[PortlandBass77]

Big fat zero... I've been too busy to start / join a band...