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OXFORD, Miss.—When Lane Kiffin shockingly abandoned Ole Miss mid-playoff run last fall to take the head coaching job at archrival LSU, he wasn’t content with getting a new gig and a massive pay raise.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 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

He insisted on holding the Plant in its box while I climbed into the gig.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly

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

That was harder to do in Edinburgh than Glasgow, where the group regularly gigged at the likes of legendary hangout Nice N' Sleazy.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2025

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

"When they heard that we were coming over and gigging, it was just incredible the feedback we all got, it was great craic," she said.

From BBC ● May 16, 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

“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