| "Feast or Famine in NYC."
Shoot. Well, I might have to gamble on feast.
NYC definitely has a better dance scene (read: ballet companies, modern companies, theater, dance schools) and I make my day money playing piano for ballet, modern, tap, and jazz classes.
This stuff is (relatively) nonexistant in LA. Didn't the LA ballet have to use 'tracks' with a reduced pit for their Nutcracker last year for budget reasons? NYC doesn't have these problems.
Also jam bands are fairly popular there as well. Rudder is based there, and MetalWood has more ties to NY than LA (I will think of more). I do a lot of that kind of work, even adding freestyle rappers, etc. I agree that the audience loyalty is excellent for that kind of stuff.
I know less about LA, though, so this info about the West Coast scene is gold for me.
Clark |