One reason musicians here make so little money is that the pay for a gig in Austin has been the same for the last 40-plus years, averaging between $50 and $100 per gig, per musician. | via PausePlayPod
“What I think surprised a lot of people when the census came out is that 20% of musicians are below the poverty line, and about another 30% hover just right above it,” says Nikki Rowling, who runs Titan Music Group, the firm that conducted the census.
“I dug out a calendar from 1979,” musician Marcia Ball says, ”and we played 12 to 15 gigs a month, mostly in Texas and Louisiana. And many of those gigs paid $300 a night. Some paid 5- and sometimes even $600 a night.” “I have before me a record of what I made in 1994,” drummer David Sanger, who has lived in Austin since 1994, says.
When it was in the range of $100 per person per gig, it felt like he could actually consider making music as a job, he says. But that was 20 years ago., and that’s the same figure many folks gave.
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