Search that phrase and half the results sell sheet music. If you came looking for songbooks, they are the ones you want. If you meant booking a musician to play somewhere, without a fortnight of messages to arrange it, this is that.
Booking music online means buying a songbook, or it means hiring someone to play. This page is the second one.
It is worth saying plainly, because the search results mix them and a minute spent on the wrong page is a minute wasted. If you want printed or digital sheet music, a music retailer is the right place and we are not it.
If you want a musician in a room on a particular night, booked without a fortnight of back and forth, read on. Open Dawn books live music for venues and events across Perth, and the whole design goal is that arranging it takes one message from you.
Most online booking moves the work into a browser rather than taking it off you. Here is the difference between the two.
A grid of profiles is a catalogue. It leaves you guessing which act holds your room, which is the one judgement that decides whether the night works.
Not a request sent into the dark. A night is either booked or it is not, and you should be able to see which without asking anybody.
If you still pay each performer, chase each invoice and work out the super, the booking was never really handled. It was just arranged somewhere prettier.
Software cannot phone around at 4pm. That part needs a person who knows who is free tonight, and it is the part that matters most.
Tell us about the room once. After that, one reply books a night.
The first conversation is the only long one: the crowd you get, the nights you want music on, where the act stands and what time it has to finish. That happens on the phone or by email, whichever suits you.
From then on the nights come to you already worked out. You approve them by replying, or with one tap in the app once we have opened your account. Choose the performer, or fill the night from the roster, and we brief them on the room, confirm them in writing and pay them along with their super. You get one invoice, a tax invoice for every night, and a summary by month, quarter or financial year that an accountant can open and add up.
The app is deliberately small. It shows the nights lined up for your room and keeps the invoices in the same place. It is where you say yes, not another calendar to keep up to date.
One conversation. The crowd, the nights, the volume and the finish time.
Performer chosen and briefed, fee agreed, times set. Nothing left for you to arrange.
One reply or one tap. The music turns up and the invoice arrives done.
A three-hour live set at a budget you set, plus GST, on a free account.
Set the budget for the night and let the roster fill it, or pick the act yourself. The performer brings their own instruments and PA.
There is no subscription, and the only thing added to the budget you set is a flat booking fee for a night that happened. Nothing renews on its own, there is no lock-in, no notice period and no exit fee, and a night you call off with 48 hours' notice is never invoiced. One set is a complete booking, so booking online here can be tried for exactly one night's cost and nothing else.
Weddings, work functions and parties are quoted for the event rather than at the set rate, because a ceremony, a canape hour and a full evening are three different jobs.
Yes, after one conversation about the room. That first call is worth having because it is what makes every later night arrive already worked out. From then on a night is approved by replying to a message or tapping once in the app, and nothing else is asked of you.
There is no subscription. The account is free, you pay per set at a budget you set, and the only thing added is a flat booking fee for a night that happened, plus GST. Nothing renews on its own, there is no lock-in, no notice period and no exit fee, and a night you call off with 48 hours' notice is never invoiced.
Usually the same day. You will get a straight answer about whether a date can be covered rather than a maybe that turns into a no later in the week.
You can. Ask for a specific performer for a specific night and they accept or decline; leave it alone and the night fills from the roster inside your budget. You can request a specific performer for a specific night and they accept or decline. Most venues start by letting us match, then ask for the one their regulars took to.
Then a music retailer is what you want rather than a booking agency. This page is about hiring a musician to play at a venue or an event, and the phrase is genuinely used for both things.
Call 0491 616 579 or use the form with the place, the date and the kind of night it is. You will usually hear back the same day.