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The total number of people with flexible employment, like gig workers, is expected to rise to 320 million in China this year, according to the think tank China New Employment Forms Research Center.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

Sheeran then addressed the controversy during the start of a gig in Philadelphia.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

Then there’s the unpleasant economic reality of gig work.

From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2026

Marsak included it in his 2002 book “Los Angeles Neon,” and has looked down upon it from his part-time gig taking tickets atop the Angels Flight Railway on Bunker Hill.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 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

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

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

She gigged in pubs, clubs and caravan parks around the north-west of England and north Wales and formed her own short-lived girl group.

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2021

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

He learned how to play guitar at the city’s Delta Blues Museum at 8 and began gigging in local clubs at 10.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 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

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