great advice guys...you are true gentlemen. I pretty much know the business side of music as I do quite a lot of the bookings now for the bands I'm in including the Wedding business. I do tend to price very high with my standard packages always thinking I can find an angle to give discounts; like if the Wedding is on a Tuesday! LOL I'm a former accountant so your advice regarding expenses truly rings loud and clear.

I make a great living with my current day job, but it is LOTS of hours and very stressful and I'm really burnt out. I currently supplement my income with music but the most I've made in a year is $15,000 which is nothing in today's economy. My concern with the NH events is they require daytime performances which I would have to quit my job to do. That would be very tough. I'd have to find a way to downsize my current job and fill that time with music gigs. Not very easy to do. I applaud you guys who have done it. Brilliant Move! I'm not really looking for Nirvana, I'm a realist, but I can't see suffering either. I'll have to carefully plot this strategy.