On Cancelling

Wouldn’t it be great if on our first day at conservatory we were handed a how-to guide for singers, something like a Miss Manners etiquette book for the music industry? Yes! That would be amazing! If only that were the case! And yet? It is not. Cue sad trombone....

A Quick Tip on Social Media

Something I’m hearing pretty frequently these days from fellow company directors and organizers is that due to our powerful social media tools, we can have a pretty fair idea of what singers are actually doing when they’ve declined or cancelled something....

The Art of the Decline

Singers can’t take every opportunity that comes along. Well, we can certainly try- but we shouldn’t, because sanity. And of course we can’t take offers for multiple gigs on the same day or pro bono opportunities we can’t afford or roles that...