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[gig] / gɪg /


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He cited the example of a young musician who had supported Hansard at a recent gig in County Cork.

From BBC Jul. 30, 2026

Watching “Scooby-Doo” as a child, I came away with two clear ambitions for adulthood: a side gig solving mysteries and a refrigerator always full of sandwich ingredients.

From Salon Jul. 30, 2026

In February 2025, Stenberg posted a since-deleted nine-minute TikTok addressing backlash that suggested colorism was at play when she landed the gig.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 29, 2026

Comedy duo Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol used guerrilla filmmaking and footage they shot in the mid-aughts to create a time-travel caper about their characters’ quest to play the ultimate gig.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 26, 2026

All the time he’s talking, I’m trying to figure out how I can cut this gig loose.

From "The Skin I'm In" by Sharon G. Flake

"I've never gigged there properly, so putting this tour on sale was a real fingers-crossed-behind-the-back moment," she says.

From BBC Oct. 6, 2024

For 15 years, both with a band and on his own, DeBardi had gigged around Everett and Western Washington under the moniker Steel Beans in relative obscurity.

From Seattle Times Jan. 16, 2024

We started doing the London comedy circuit around the same time, and so we’ve gigged together a lot.

From New York Times Aug. 26, 2021

Rountree played in a Weezer-inspired band with friends, gigged on his trombone and won euphonium competitions.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 5, 2019

Though of course they wouldn’t have been gigged.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

After graduating from high school in 1948, Rollins started gigging around New York and, by the early 1950s, was recording with Bud Powell, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker and Thelonious Monk, who Rollins called his “guru.”

From The Wall Street Journal May 26, 2026

"We cannot lose this music as we are on the way out," pleaded Diasihilua, who has already spent 50 of his 73 years on earth gigging.

From Barron's Feb. 18, 2026

Years before the turning point of that album, though, Weinberg was growing up in Jersey, where he was “a gigging drummer” even as a child.

From Salon Oct. 14, 2025

However BBC Scotland News understands the appearance does not mean Capaldi has plans to return to gigging yet, and that he simply wanted to support CALM.

From BBC May 3, 2025

I couldn’t see myself hanging around Wilmington working at a 7-Eleven, gigging in a pop band that played the VEW and other seedy country joints, which is what I was doing.

From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride




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