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[vinceconaway]

I have more of a routine than most expect. Here in Washington, most weekdays, I catch a 7:20 bus to the ferry (or an 8:05 if I'm sleepy), walk to Pike Place Market and put my marker in line, perform two hour-long shows between 11 and 3, and get home around 4. 

In Europe I perform Thursday-Sunday roughly 10-noon and again 5-7pm, choosing either a morning or evening set on Tuesday and Wednesday. At renaissance festivals I push hard all weekend and never get out of bed on Monday, doing back-end support Tuesday-Thursday. 

Where I am determines what I'm doing, but it's not as unstructured a life as it might seem. 

Comments

[redsash.livejournal.com]

I don't know Washington. How busy is the market to make it worth your time?

I've been experimenting with my Dead Pirate Roger act, but it requires a lot of space...

~r

[vconaway.livejournal.com]

It doesn't have much room for circle shows, more of a small music groups venue. What kind of an act do you do?

[redsash.livejournal.com]

I guess I was asking what kind of traffic you look for to make a location tenable.

I dress as a skeletal pirate and challenge people to realistic duels with foam swords :-) Ideally takes about 30' of grassy space.

~r

[vconaway.livejournal.com]

Traffic is important but not everything. A good ambiance with low traffic (matching tempo to a fountain on Piazza Navona comes to mind) can work really well, and too much foot traffic sweeps people past and doesn't allow listening. I normally thread between the two extremes; I like to have someone pass every ten seconds or so as a minimum.