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Once you've picked the right venue you want to make sure that you do some research on
that venue to be able to fit into it. If, let's say for example, that I pick a club.
And I say, I'm going to go play, I want to play in Seattle, at a club in Seattle. Well,
there's an easy way to find out about all the clubs in Seattle. Just go to any web search
engine and then you type in music, live music Seattle, and all of a sudden all these different
websites will pop up. Then you can go and you can find the ones, there will be websites
that pop up that list all these different musical clubs and most of them will have their
own website. Go and look on that website and find out what kind of acts they have playing
there. Find out what nights they have playing there. When you figure that out, you can coordinate
that in with your schedule and planning your schedule so that you know when you pitch something
to them, exactly which night to tell them that you want to play on, or if you'll fit
at all into that. You'll find out if you're choosing something like a church, you might
find out, 'Hey, if I'm going to perform for a youth group, well I need to find out exactly
which nights they have their youth group on. If I'm going for a university, what nights
do they have their student activities nights on?' There's all sorts of things that you
can find out by doing some research first before you just go start, haul off, and start
calling people, because it'll save you a lot of time in finding out, if you say 'Hey, well
I'd like to come play on Tuesday night,' 'Well, we only have things on Friday nights.' 'Oh,
well, thanks for your time, see you later.' Do some research. It'll save yourself the
awkward pause.