[gig]: a musician's engagement

[mey-vuhn]: one who is knowledgeable: expert

: the first website where musicians and venues can manage the entire booking process online



Headquartered in New York City, GigMaven helps connect aspiring musicians with live music venues, independent music labels and radio stations.

GigMaven launched in beta on January 27th, 2008 in conjunction with GigFest '08, GigMaven's 1st annual charity music festival. GigFest '08 featured twenty six up-and-coming artists at six venues on the Lower East Side of New York City. All proceeds from the festival benefitted VH1 Save the Music, Mr. Holland's Opus Foundation and Global Music Project . GigFest '08 was also covered by NY1 News, Timeout NYC and The Village Voice.

GigMaven helps venues streamline the booking process. It's easy to be overwhelmed by gig requests from musicians in person, on the phone and via email. GigMaven reduces the hassle by allowing venues to manage their calendars and book artists all in one place. Just create a gig on the calendar, receive and review musician submissions via GigMaven and pick who plays. It's that simple.

On the other side, GigMaven helps musicians find and book gigs online. We realize that booking gigs is a time-consuming process, whether it's done in person, over the phone or via email. It's already hard enough to make it as a musician, why waste so much precious time trying to book gigs? GigMaven reduces the hassle by centralizing the booking process, allowing musicians to manage their schedules and to apply to gigs with a single click. Just search for open gigs, apply and wait to hear back from the venues. Yes, it's that simple.

GigMaven wants to make all of your lives easier, so sign up, create a profile and let's start booking some gigs!

Business Guy: Howard Han
Howard graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in Political Science. Afterwards, he worked at UBS Investment Bank in the Technology, Media and Telecom Group. Howard used to be a musician but now mostly plays rock band and loves orange flavored sodas.

Tech Guy: Jared Martin
Jared graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with B.S. in Computer Science. Afterwards he worked at Globecomm Systems, Inc. as a Software Engineer where he programmed control systems for satellite equipment. Jared loves playing poker, strategy games, math / logic puzzles and listening to Avenged Sevenfold and Disturbed. He also played in the 2006 World Series of Poker and likes to spend his weekends in Atlantic City, Foxwoods and Las Vegas.

Band Guy: Richard Pan
Richard graduated from Princeton University with an A.B. in Politics. Richard is also the founder and lead singer of The Audiologues, an alternative rock band based in Columbus, Ohio. After college, Richard performed at various venues in New York City and across the country while holding a day job as a merchandiser at Abercrombie & Fitch. Currently, Richard is a student at the University of Michigan Law School. He is originally from Kentucky, has toured the world as a classical violinist and also plans to enter the 2009 NBA Draft.

Che Developer: Ning Liang
Ning graduated from Yale University with a M.S. and B.S. in Physics and a B.S. in Math. Afterwards, he worked at Microsoft as a Software Design Engineer in Test. Ning loves food, almost went to culinary school, is really into Muay Thai Kickboxing, has been in a zero gravity environment (twice), and is really into early 20th century Irish literature.

Venue Guy: Zach Jaeger
Zach graduated from the Columbus College of Art & Design with a B.F.A. in Media Studies. Afterwards, Zach worked at The Knitting Factory as a jack-of-all trades, helping with booking and managing the club. Zach loves tofu, vintage video games, analog hi-fi...and long walks on the beach.

El Guapo Programmer: Roberto Thais
Roberto graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in Philosophy. Roberto is also the co-founder of Kudasu, an innovative social search engine. Roberto, who is originally from Peru, is into Peruvian food, Turkish culture, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, and German mathematicians. He hopes to one day start his own nanotechnology foundation.

Intern Guy: Brent Davis
Brent is currently studying at NYU Stern and helping us out for the summer. Brent is a huge film buff and made a short called Locker Space (Part 1 Part 2) in high school.

Intern Gal: Sharon Samuel
Sharon is currently studying at NYU Stern and helping us out for the summer. Sharon is from Texas, loves the Houston Rockets and swears that everyone must go to a Rodeo.