Websites for musicians, bands and tribute acts

Instagram is where fans find you. Your website is where the person booking a festival, a wedding or a corporate party decides you are legitimate. Those are different jobs, and a band website should do the second one well.

What a site for musicians and bands needs

Upcoming shows you can update yourself

Date, venue, city, ticket link. Nothing on a band site goes stale faster.

Video above the fold

A booker wants to see thirty seconds of you playing before reading a word.

A booking form that asks the right questions

Event date, type, location, budget range. Save yourself the back-and-forth.

What you play and for whom

Tribute act, originals, cover band, solo piano for cocktail hour. Be specific about the events you want more of.

Tech rider and stage plot as downloads

Optional, but venues love it.

Getting found on Google

Bookers search "Elton John tribute Vancouver", "wedding band Okanagan", "jazz trio for events Toronto". Your act, your genre and your region in the title tag does more than any amount of social media for those searches.

A real one

The Honky Cat, Vancouver

Michael Turner's Elton John tribute act plays concerts, festivals, fundraisers and weddings around the Lower Mainland. His site has the show list, video, a bit of history on the act, and a booking form. He updates the shows himself from his phone. honkycatband.com

What it costs

Starter is $500 once and $100 a year: a hand-built one-page site at yourname.ourhub.ca with a contact form, hosting, SSL and two content updates a month. Complete is $1,000 and $240 a year and adds your own domain, custom email, an editor you can use yourself, and the Google setup. Three to five business days from your answers to a preview. Full details on the what's included page, and the comparison with doing it yourself in the cost guide.