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Gigs pay the bills: Twenty-six percent of people ages 18-29 do gig work, the Federal Reserve System reported.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

Panettiere’s first national TV gig came at 11 months old with a Playskool toy train commercial, the start of around 50 advertising appearances she’d rack up before she was 5 years old.

From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2026

Says the soft-spoken Cockrell of the gig: “It was pretty rocking.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026

The World Bank estimated in 2023 there were up to 435 million online gig workers around the globe who had largely fallen outside regular labour protections.

From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026

He was playing his first coffeehouse gig the next night.

From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner

So while “Goin’ Local” is technically Kaye’s first solo record, back in 1984, there was another project, the Lenny Kaye Connection, a quartet which gigged around New York City and environs.

From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2026

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

She gigged constantly, whether as the leader of her own groups or a guest in the ensembles of the saxophonist James Brandon Lewis and the vocalist Fay Victor.

From New York Times ● Aug. 28, 2022

After graduation, he gigged around town, including a stint at the top-floor bar at L’Ermitage Beverly Hills.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 2022

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

Singer Reiner was gigging as a photographer in the late 1980s, visiting film sets as part of her income.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2025

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

“Anybody here gigging Aunt Fanny’s frogs? Pearl, have you been gigging Aunt Fanny’s frogs?”

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck