On Wed, 7 Aug 2013 10:50:34 +0100 (BST), William Samson wrote > I wonder how many early music 'acts' have an agent or a manager?
Probably very few. > For a percentage of income, these people can take a lot of the > burden of marketing and negotiation from the shoulders of the musicians > themselves. The amount of marketing/negotiation time been taken away by the agent is directly proportion to your income :-) 15-18% (then maximum allowed over here) of your concert fee usually does not pay for several hours of work. Hence most serious agents will only work for well-established artists whose concert fee is high enough to feed them as well. Iff you happen to be in this (price-)league then your time is probably the limiting factor (read: can I play a concert or do I have to do marketing/paper work) - but that only works if your playing in that time earns you more than what your agent needs for his/her service (but then you most like aren't reading this posts). Cheers, RalfD To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
