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[gig] / gɪg /


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Do you remember the first gig you played after your husband died?

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 16, 2026

More than 1,300 people recently applied for that gig.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 12, 2026

Speaking to the BBC before his gig, he said he felt "thankful" to be here.

From BBC Sep. 12, 2026

She said an incident during a Christmas gig began when a man approached her to request a song she did not have.

From BBC Sep. 10, 2026

“Whoa, it’s five-thirty? Oh man! Dudes, I’ve got a gig tonight. We have to wrap this up. Let’s go. Everything in the lock room.”

From "Auggie & Me" by R. J. Palacio

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

"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

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

“There’s a lot of bread to be made gigging right around here in Roxbury,” Shorty explained to me.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey




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