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How do you get to Carnegie Hall?

I mean srsly, say you're an up-and-coming performer, not a real celebrity yet but you have enough youtube subscribers that if you do play Carnegie Hall, you're reasonably sure to at least break even on ticket sales. Do you wait for an invite from them? Does your manager just call their booking office and schedule a slot, or what? How selective are they really, assuming you have a relatively conventional sit-down music act with no swordfighting chickens or anything like that? At the end of the day, is it just another music venue?

Asking because of an upcoming performance which is being depicted as a breakthrough, when the person is already fairly well known. Thanks. 67.164.113.165 (talk) 02:11, 21 August 2019 (UTC)

Not part of the answer. Matt Deres (talk) 15:42, 21 August 2019 (UTC)
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Take Billionaires Row to the street's highest point or the Crossroads of the World to Billionaires Row (hang a right if you took the wrong crossroad) or Broadway to Billionaires Row to Fashion Avenue or take the avenue that is Manhattan's central axis past the Empire State and to the block with Trump Tower and Tiffany's and walk 2 blocks west on Billionaires Row. Literally. Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 03:15, 21 August 2019 (UTC) The first time jazz was played there was controversial. They said kids these days just want a beat and that the refuge of haute culture was being sullied by pop music. And now jazz makes your bookstore or airport or boutique store seem high culture, though maybe that's not the same kind of jazz they complained about. Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 12:29, 21 August 2019 (UTC)

You can simply hire it. --Viennese Waltz 07:54, 21 August 2019 (UTC)

As noted, with most performance spaces, you can literally just pay them on any date they have an opening. However, few acts handle their own booking in this way. Instead, the management of renting a performance space is usually handled through a middle-man company like a Tour promoter such as Live Nation; often these companies provide additional services like marketing as well as being able to negotiate lower rates with venues than any Joe off the street would get by paying "rack rate". Generally, an artist will contract with a promoter to handle all of the messy bits instead of doing it themselves. --Jayron32 16:35, 22 August 2019 (UTC)

Would GoFundMe work for this? Contribute this much to help cover costs and a little for profit if you want and get a "free" ticket in this section if enough fund you. All the tickets are "free". Then you can rent Carnegie Hall with the proceeds at no financial risk to yourself. Well besides getting a severe flu or car crash or something and being unable to play at the time rented. Maybe there's insurance for that. Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 16:30, 21 August 2019 (UTC)