Live performance is where most working artists earn most of their income. This workshop is how a show gets booked, routed, advanced, played and settled, and how a regional run becomes a national one and then an international one.

It is built on the Hub and Spokes method, then Slow Touring, because that is the sequence that builds a real audience without spending money you do not have on markets that do not know you yet. Touring at home and touring abroad are taught as one arc rather than two separate subjects, because the decisions that make an export run work start long before the first international date.

Who this is for

Artists playing live now or about to start, and the managers around them. No agent required. This workshop assumes you are booking yourself.

What you will be able to do

Research a market and a room before you ask for it, read and negotiate the four common deal types, route a run that pays for itself, advance and settle a show properly, handle the permissions and taxes that come with performing abroad, and finish with a complete costed tour and expansion plan.

Length

Twelve modules. About five hours of video, plus the tour plan you build as you go.