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Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche appeared before the Judiciary Committee to secure the gig officially, while Jay Clayton appeared before the Intelligence Committee in his bid to be director of national intelligence.

From Slate ● Jul. 18, 2026

She spoke to a band who were about to miss their first gig outside of Norwich.

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026

Some have turned to gig economy jobs, such as food delivery and ride hailing, to earn cash.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026

For her Hollywood Bowl gig, Peluso will be accompanied by the Colombian salsa collective Grupo Niche, a Grammy- and Latin Grammy-winning group that has been around since the late ’70s.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026

Nan said Daddy’d stayed behind to take care of me when Momma got her first touring gig.

From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry

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

Since impressing the judges on BGT in 2013, Jack's done a national tour, gigged at the London Palladium and Apollo and worked with Jason Manford.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2023

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

Afterwards I gigged all over the country; turns out I was pretty good.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 27, 2020

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

Kissing The Flint recently played at the pub having started gigging in Dumfries a few years ago having moved from Australia.

From BBC ● Mar. 23, 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