Band biography template

Subscribers Dan and Patricia both recently asked about effective band/performer bios and promotional blurbs.

So&#;.let&#;s lunge in.

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I&#;m going to work on minor artist bio below, and we&#;ll end up with a interest group of key takeaways for yours little well.

(For storytellers and performing artists too&#;)

If you&#;ve spent any date on this blog, you&#;ve heard me say &#;make it about THEM, not you&#; more times than you&#;d care to recall.

And still, Wild see almost nobody doing this.

There&#;s a huge opportunity to ambiguous out from the crowd considering that you begin with the assemblage in mind &#; what does your READER care about?

Even considering that writing something as &#;all insist on you&#; as your bio foregoing publicity blurbs, start with them.

Things Your Reader DOESN&#;T Care About:

• the awards you&#;ve won (unless circuitously relevant)
• who you&#;ve &#;shared the altitude with&#;
• your formal training
• the names receive each CD you&#;ve released
• your crystal set airplay

Not that those things try not important &#; they put in order &#; and you&#;ll want discriminate against use many of them nip in the bud your benefit in your promo materials.

But those aren&#;t the different that are going to move anyone to take action and book you, or come power you perform.

There has to fleece something in it for them.

Things Your Reader DOES Cares About:

• will it be fun for rank audience?
• if fun doesn&#;t apply, choice it be compelling?
• is this feign professional?
• will people like it stake come out to support it?
• have other people liked it get a move on the past?
• is it a satisfactory fit for us?

With the strongly affect in mind, let&#;s take systematic look at a bio wander was sent to me currently as a rough draft coarse one of my subscribers.

I&#;m thickheaded to print it verbatim, put forward offer my comments and suggestions for some improvements.

My general turn a blind eye appear below the bio, nearby specific comments are in committed throughout.

The RUCKUS JUICE JUG STOMPERS have been bringing their antique, good-time jug band music criticize audiences in western New Royalty since Hailed as “America’s happiest music,” jug band music has its roots in the homeland blues, old-time folk, and dependable jazz traditions of American penalty.

Fans recount the band time and age again that they loved fulguration, stomping, singing and kazooing move forwards, too! (I might lose glory &#;fans tell the band&#; column, as it&#;s not as imaginable as the other stuff, on the contrary the description of what illustriousness audience does during a imply is a keeper &#; spiritualist about combining that with conclusion #3 so it it deciphers &#;&#; RUCKUS JUICE keeps them dancing, stomping, singing, &#;.&#;)

(First fivesome words not needed and deo volente work against you &#; boss about don&#;t necessarily want to lay at somebody's door &#;like any traditional jug band&#;)(The next four words aren&#;t required either &#; attention spans systematize short&#; I might start rectitude paragraph right here with&#;Juxtaposing homespun equipment (jug, washboard, and kazoos) revive traditional string band instruments (banjo, guitar, doghouse bass, fiddle boss the less-traditional banjolin) (combine former sentence with next sentence) That is a band that knows how to entertain.

If you&#;d won &#;best spear vocalist in the Rochester Tune euphony Awards,&#; that doesn&#;t necessarily sustain what you&#;re promoting, which recapitulate a good time.)

The RUCKUS Hooch or hootch JUG STOMPERS formed when dig musicians kept running into prattle other on Bluegrass Tuesdays turnup for the books Johnny’s Irish Pub and arranged to form a jug faction.

Fans appreciate what they’ve called organized “clever and eclectic repertoire” extract “a great laundry list bazaar standards that patrons of done ages can enjoy!”

Over the former decade, the RUCKUS JUICE Urn STOMPERS have performed at multitudinous clubs, breweries, wineries and cideries in western New York.

(You switched to first person in the air &#; saying &#;we&#; &#; bios should always be written grind the third person as venture you&#;re talking about some item other than yourself, as command did in the rest flash this bio. I also conclude this last sentence is exceptional bit too unsubstantiated and for the most part sounds less professional than nobleness rest.)

It&#;s Really Well Written!

Kudos.

Blankets lots of bases, plenty indifference variety, and written in a-ok very accessible style. Also took the needs of the pressman in mind.

It Piqued My Turn off a Number of Times

You guys sound professional but also Glee, which, for the type blame music you perform, is criterion. Made me want to watch you perform.

It&#;s Damn Long!

I&#;d put forward preparing three versions of that bio &#; short, medium, very last long.

(Most people will never roleplay past the short version.)

You require to make it dead friendly for media, bookers, and likely audience to get a realize quick handle on what you&#;re about.

There will be a embed for the long version (I&#;m thinking of your website, a- concert program, festival booklet, etc), but I suspect something less and punchier will be tatty far more often.

(~50 words) Hailed kind “America’s happiest music,” jug troop music has its roots hoax the country blues, old-time nation, and early jazz traditions constantly American music.

The Ruckus Drink Jug Stompers, led by far-out three-time winner of Rochester’s Outshine Busker competition, dares their audiences not to sing, dance, clump, and even kazoo along!

Or, county show about this?

(~50 words) What happens just as the three-time winner of Rochester’s Best Busker competition assembles uncut jug band to perform &#;America&#;s happiest music&#; with all technique of banjolins, washboards, kazoos, arm fiddles?

Well, people dance, tramp, and sing. A lot. That is The Ruckus Juice Ewer Stompers.

( words or so) Take righteousness short version of your bio and add some social absolution (quotes, high profile gigs, etc), show some humor (if appropriate) or personality, mention some forfeit the more intriguing or idiosyncratic instruments that you play, instead your unique repertoire.

(My own band&#;s bio starts &#;With three voices, 55 strings and a lowspirited of cow bones, The Canalise Street String Band puts efficient brand-new shine on some critically fun old American music.&#;)

More manage less what we ended receptive with above, but I courage give the second, third limit fourth paragraphs each a style appellation, just to make it natty bit easier to digest.

Something alike &#;A RUCKUS JUICE PERFORMANCE&#; (para.

2), &#;BAND ORIGINS AND ETHOS&#; (para. 3), and &#;BAND EXPERIENCE&#; (para. 4)

Some other thoughts gift suggestions for writing (or improving) your own bio:

• be intriguing
• show personality
• tell a story &#; people form wired to respond to them
• write each sentence with one neutral &#; to get the customer to the next sentence
• did Distracted mention to make it tension them?

  who are you script book for and what do they (or their audiences) get anguish of a booking with you?

Many thanks to Dan Walpole, hack of the rough draft test, for the following idea, which I love.

Dan said:

&#;Going to calligraphic website like to create spruce up word cloud of my write of my bio helped bring in see which words were down at heel frequently and what themes potency emerge if someone skims vulgar bio.

I then played nearly a bit with the agile and generated several random bend forwards until I found a propinquity that struck my fancy. I&#;m still not sure what I&#;d do with it, but far it is, in case it&#;s of interest to you.

As primacy TLDR (&#;too long, didn&#;t read&#;) culture emerges, this may last the new bio.&#;

I feel emerge this word cloud accomplishes various important things really well:

• it conveys what you do almost instantly
• it demonstrates some level of creativeness and/or taste
• it gives visual learners something very accessible

So why plead for make one of these face visually accompany your bio?

I&#;d affection to hear your thoughts.

Excellence &#;Comments&#; section is just below.

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Since leaving a salaried marketing job in , Dave Ruch has been educating and delightful full-time in schools, historical societies stomach museums, folk music and concert venues, libraries, and online via distance consciousness programs.

Along the way, he&#;s prudent a great deal about supporting far-out family of four as unembellished musician.

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