Oops there are a lot of professionalists.

Music playing in a band is only my hobby. In Germany we have during summertime a lot of public festivals specially in Bavaria where I live (you know "October Fest" but much smaller). Always you have a big tent there where you can sit in, drink beer, hear live music (from Bavarian Folk up to heavy metal) and eat something. Therefore we have a wide spread spectrum of songs to play and sing, like "Country Roads" to "Highway to Hell". We can play up to ten hours and have a medium sized PA for a audience of 1500 persons. If we have a bigger job we rent something.
Next year we try to play trucker festivals (sometimes up to 10000 and more people in the audience) and the "RockHouse Cafe" tent which is on a very big public festival and has a capacity of 5000 persons.

Beside that we play weddings, parties, dance galas or next year during January and February Carnival events. There you need standard dance songs and something like a Vienna Waltz.
Round about 40 til 50 gigs per year.

Greetings from Germany

Gerhard
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Greetings from Germany

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