Back to cold calling

I've reached the enviable point in my career at Renaissance Festivals where I'm familiar enough with people booking entertainment, and to them, that I don't need to do nearly the amount of gig solicitation I once did. I'm looking to book some open time at bookstores and coffee shops, however, and I'm back into the realm of tossing off emails by the dozen with the prospect of cold calling looming in the near future. It's been a long time since I've had introduced myself as "hi, I'm some random musician and I'd like to play your venue".

It's rather humbling.

Busy day

I've been extraordinarily productive today! I sent out a lot of performance inquiries to potential Cleveland-area venues for the winter, I've been doing a lot of academic reading for an SCA research project, and I'm well on my way to memorizing the second half of Bach's Allemande in Em. This evening I'll do some more work on my medieval dulcimer project, to top it all off.