Biography
Jeri Goldstein, former agent and manager, now author and music business and performing arts consultant, provides valuable resources, instruction and consulting to those navigating their way to creating a successful performing arts touring career. Having worked with some of the top touring acoustic artists on the circuit for 20 years, she booked national and international tours for artists performing in music, theater and dance.
How To Be Your Own Booking Agent, THE Musician’s & Performing Artist’s Guide To Successful Touring was self-published in 1998. The award-winning book, now in its 4th Edition, is used as a text book in Music Business courses at Universities across the U.S. and Canada, Berklee College of Music, NYU, Belmont University, The Musician’s Institute and the Harris Institute in Montreal are among them. The book is used by musicians and performing artists world-wide and was Amazon's # 1 Music Business book.
Jeri presents live seminars internationally at industry conferences, for arts councils in the US & Canada and at universities and offers online courses for agents, managers, musicians and performing artists along with career development coaching world-wide through her Strategic Touring Career Development Programs. She has transformed her live presentation to her popular online course Booking & Touring Success Strategies & Secrets which she offers twice per year. Her information-packed articles can be found on her website, https://performingbiz.com/ and have been included in leading music business and entertainment trade magazines and on industry websites such as Garageband, Gig, Getsigned.com, Taxi and Discmakers newsletters. Her free action-oriented weekly audio messages, Biz Booster Hot Tips, are designed to help musicians and performing artists make consistent progress toward reaching their career goals by offering step-by-step strategies and techniques.
Jeri was president of The New Music Times, Inc. and is currently president and founder of Performingbiz, LLC. Goldstein’s background runs the gamut working inside the entertainment industry as concert promoter, tour coordinator, and commercial television production engineer for an NBC affiliate station, commercial country radio DJ, photographer and graphic artist. She has also served as President and member of the Board of Directors of the Folk Alliance. Goldstein created and coordinated the Folk Alliance’s Booking Agent Training School for four annual conferences. The Southern Arts Federation partnered with Goldstein to offer one-day booking seminars for roster touring artists at arts councils throughout the US.
Jeri now makes her home in southern Florida.
Goldstein has conducted seminars for:
Arts Councils:
Arts Council of the Blue Ridge
Arts Midwest
Arts North Carolina
Arts Northwest
British Columbia Touring Council, Canada
California Arts Council
Florida Department of Cultural Affairs
Indiana Arts Commission
Louisiana Division of the Arts
Mississippi Arts Commission
Missouri Folk Arts Program
New Orleans Arts Council
Ohio Arts Presenter’s Network
Oklahoma Arts Council
Ontario Arts Council, Canada
Pennsylvania Arts Council, PennPat
Southern Arts Federation
Tennessee Arts Commission
Virginia Commission for the Arts
Organizations:
The Music Business Institute/Cutting Edge
Enoch Pratt Free Library
Folk Alliance
Independent Children’s Artist Network
International Bluegrass Music Association—IBMA
Louisiana Music New Orleans Pride-LMNOP
Music Entertainment Industry Educators Association—MEIEA
Schools:
Belmont University-School of Business
Carnegie Mellon University
Colorado University at Denver—Music Industry
Loyola University—Music Business Department
Music Tech College
New York University—Music Department
University of Kansas—Music & Dance Department
University of Virginia—McIntire Department of Music
University of Virginia—School of Continuing & Professional Studies
Contact Jeri Goldstein:
jg@performingbiz.com
https://performingbiz.com