Double Bass How much does your NYE gig pay?

[PocketGroove82]

It's New Years Eve, 2022.
If you are out in the trenches, what money are you getting paid tonight?

In Norfolk, VA, they offered $200, and I said no. Not tonight. You?

 

[Levin Hannaford]

The last New Years gig I took a few years back was $2k split four ways. That’s about what’s it’d take to get me outta the house again

 

[oren]

It’s been a lot of years since I played a NYE gig. Back when I was gigging the bars I used to hate playing NYE - always seemed like people were desperate to prove they were having a good time while way over-imbibing. The last bunch of years my wife and I have hosted regionally themed dinner parties with our friends where we start eating around 8 and aim to finish with dessert at midnight. This year we’re doing middle eastern food!

 

[Don Kasper]

No NYE gig this year, but last year's paid $750, and I got COVID 2 days later!
Cha-Ching!
Now, where did I put my Guy Lombardo Edison cylinders?
Thx.

 

[Sean Riddle]

$300, plus covering me and my significant other’s dinner.

 

[rocknrolo]

We wouldn’t play for less than 1000 plus bar tab - 4 way split. They make a killing on new years and a lot of places around here are at least a 20 dollar to get into the venue.

 

[fdeck]

My pay was a decent multiplier above regular gig pay. It was 4:30 to 8 PM at a retirement home, two sets in different parts of their facility. Five minutes from my house. I've been doing it for more than a decade, except for during the lockdown when it was cancelled.

It's with a great group of players whom I go way back with, and a super appreciative audience. Jazz trio, drummer sings, requests encouraged. Home by 8:30.

 

[Chris Fitzgerald]

My pay was a decent multiplier above regular gig pay.

Same here. Easy 10-12:30 hit at a brewpub with two friends who were once great grad students in our program at the U. Both good players and even better people. I bought the weekly household groceries with cash this morning and still have over 60% of the gig pay left over. Life is good!

 

[John Chambliss]

I swore them off many years ago. Too many amateur drunks in the audience, not to mention the dangers on the roads on the way home!

 

[PocketGroove82]

I've been out of the country so long, I sincerely suck at determining value anymore, as it's so regional.
Thanks for all the comments and a happy 2023 to all. God knows we could use it.

 

[peteswanson91]

What’s a gig??

 

[chuck3]

I had an offer for a gig over in the Berkshires. A lot of travel, might have gotten $150. I might have done it anyway but it would have meant Mrs chuck3 alone at home ... and, well, that just got vetoed!

All good.

 

[Richard Whiteman]

What’s a gig??

A palindrome?

 

[Hot Rats]

Local Moose Lodge gig this past week. 9pm -12:15am, prime rib dinner and I walked out with $235.00 and made the 4 mile drive back home. It was a nice night.

 

[pdbass]

Last year played trio at a private club here and it payed $500/man. 5:30-9:30pm.
This year, same place but duo at $400/man. 5-9pm. In bed by 11

 

[bassfiddlesteve]

I played electric bass with the same four-piece band that I played New Year’s Eve with 25 years ago! I don’t recall what made back then, but this time around we made $500 each.

- Steve

 

[Tim Grant]

It was more than usual but it wasn't worth the scary drive home that night. The fireworks were cool though.

 

[Earl]

Retirement home gig with a jazz trio, 7-8pm, 20 mins from my house, $275. The only call I got!

 

[AGCurry]

It's been decades since I played on New Years Eve, which I consider a silly excuse for a party. When I did, it was always around double the normal pay.

I don't get paid for playing ... I get paid for shlepping, learning new material, staying up late, and putting up with you-know-what. If there's a substantial amount of those things, I need more money.

 

[HateyMcAmp]

I got $420 for the 30th for a large-ish club show in a college town, $620 for NYE at a small mountain venue with the original music band I play in. The last jazz gig I did on NYE I think I got $150 :/