gig

I think about walking on stage at a hometown gig and I know how that feels.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 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

A construction boom, due in part to government spending on infrastructure, has also boosted employment, while about 12 million people are employed as gig workers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026

We have our very first gig tonight and I’m a nervous wreck.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

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

It was the start of her first North American tour in almost six years, and I had been invited to tag along with the band while they gigged along the Pacific Northwest.

From BBC ● May 31, 2021

That wildly popular Los Angeles beat trio last gigged at Coachella in 2014, and many were expecting a return.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2019

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

“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