Map a Muso is a directory listing service for individual professional musicians.

It makes it easy for fixers to find musos with the skills and experience that they need for a gig, in the areas where they need it.

It makes it easier for musos to find work in the areas that suit them, cutting their travel time and making new contacts.

Not directly. It is not designed for finding a new member for a group. Every search that is made must be for a paid, professional gig. Of course, that gig might be the beginning of a long term relationship!

No. It is not for members of the public who want to book ensembles or bands for an event. It is a musician to musician service.

Anyone involved in the searching and fixing process of the music industry - both fixers and musos.

Anyone searching for a muso is a fixer on Map a Muso. Fixers might be someone looking for a dep for themselves, or someone looking to fix a whole choir, band or orchestra.

Musos are instrumentalists, singers, arrangers, composers, workshop leaders, directors, conductors - any musician with skills they’d like to list in the directory.

No. All instruments, voice types, musical skills and genres are welcome!

Anyone who wants to search using the map of professional musos, and anyone who wants to be listed on the map of musos. Please also see the answers to the previous questions above.

Your phone number and email address.

After registration, you need to provide your name, an introductory sentence about yourself and a photo.

Being listed in the directory means that your skills can be matched with gigs in your preferred areas and viewed by fixers.

Skills are anything a fixer might search for. That could be the instrument that you play, your voice type, or another skillset, such as sight-reading or improvising. You can also include skills like having your own PA system, or car.

By choosing from a dropdown list of skills. You can choose up to 10 skills. You can also describe your skills in more depth in your biog.

Your biog can contain information about your professional work history and more detail about your specific skills and experience. You can also upload some additional publicity photos and a link to your website if you choose.

Specify a town or village and set the size of the area around this location. You can choose up to 8 areas if you are on a FORTE membership and 4 if on a PIANO membership.

You might choose where you live, a town where you often work, or somewhere that a family member or friend lives. Anywhere that you’d prefer to work!

No. Map a Muso is designed to promote local work.

At the moment Map a Muso is built for the UK. Let us know if you would like to use it in another country!

Essentially, yes. However if there is no-one in a location who matches what a fixer is looking for (for instance, a search for a very niche instrument) then the system will suggest other musos outside that area.

The fixer creates a gig at a certain location and searches for a skill. If your skill and one of your preferred areas match, you will be listed in their search results.

The search results are ordered by distance. Those musos nearest the location of the gig will be higher up the results list.

Fixers will be able to see your profile card, including your name, skills and introductory sentence. They will also be able to see your biog and any publicity photos. They will not be able to see your chosen areas or contact details.

Your contact details, address and preferred areas will remain private. This data is not needed for fixers to offer you a gig. Fixers will only see your phone number when you respond to their gig offer.

No. Fixers will only see your phone number when you respond to them yourself by text or call, after they have offered a gig to you.

Map a Muso will send you a text message if a fixer wants to offer you a gig. You will see details of the gig by clicking the link in the message.

If you are on a FORTE membership, the gig details contain the fixer’s phone number.

Yes. You need to reply directly to the fixer, by phone or text, to accept or decline a gig.

You need to confirm the final details for the gig directly with the fixer. The gig is not confirmed until you have connected directly.

Yes, please reply to the fixer to decline the gig offer. Every gig offer is a chance to add someone to your network of contacts, even if you can’t accept on this occasion.

Yes, they will see the time that you viewed the gig details.

If you are on a FORTE membership, you can read the fixer’s profile along with the details of the gig offer.

No. The gig is confirmed only when you and the fixer contact one another directly to do so.

All registered users must sign up to our Terms and Conditions stating that they provide information in good faith. However, as with the rest of the music industry, using common sense caution is wise. If you notice something that doesn’t seem right, please let us know.

No. You just need to be registered and fill in your brief profile to start a search. Listing yourself allows others to match with your skills in their own search.

Create a gig and search for a skill for that gig.

No. You can only search for musos who have matching skills for a particular gig in a particular location.

You can learn more about the matching musos by looking at their profiles. Profiles contain details of their work history, their skills and publicity photos. Musos you like can be added to your shortlist.

All registered users must sign our Terms and Conditions stating that they provide information in good faith. However, as with the rest of the music industry, using common sense caution is wise. If you notice something that doesn’t seem right, please let us know.

We are planning a ‘Verified by’ system, where established ensembles, bands and choirs can recommend a muso. This part of the system will be launched soon!

Musos from outside the area will appear in the search results if there are no matches nearby.

No. You will see the contact details of the muso only when they contact you to accept or decline the gig.

When you hit the envelope button in your shortlist, Map a Muso will send a text message to the muso’s phone, containing a link to the gig details.

You need to specify a location, date and time for a gig. You can also include information about rehearsal times, dress code and repertoire. You will need to add a fee and confirm the skills you require. You can also indicate whether you are sending multiple offers out for this position.

When you send a muso a gig offer, they will be able to see your profile card, containing your name, introductory sentence and photo. If you’ve added a biog and publicity photos they will see those too. They will also see your phone number as part of the gig details, so that they can contact you directly.

The gig details contain your phone number and the muso will contact you directly by text or phone. You will be able to see when the gig details have been viewed.

That’s up to the muso, but you will be able to see when the gig details have been viewed.

You need to confirm the final details for the gig directly with the muso.

No. The gig offer is confirmed only when you and the muso contact one another directly to do so.

Registration, searching for musos and sending gig offers is free. To be listed in the directory we offer both free and paid memberships. You can read more about our various membership levels in this article.

No. We are not an agency and we encourage you to build your own connections with fixers.

You can pay by annual subscription. Our payment provider is PayPal, which supports a number of different payment options.

No. All final gig details and payments are between musos and fixers themselves.

Complete the following steps using the Profile Editor tool. See the following questions for the details of each step.

1. Add your basic profile including your name, a short introduction and a profile photo.
2. Add your skills with our Skill Selector tool. It's important to add your skills and areas using these tools because this makes them searchable by fixers.
3. Add your areas with our Area Editor tool.
4. Purchase a subscription with PayPal if you want to be on our paid membership. You can read more about our various membership levels in this article.

We recommend that you add a biog and publicity photos to your profile to provide more information about yourself, but this is optional.

To start with, please add your name, a short introduction and a profile photo on the first tab. You need to fill out your profile even if you plan to use Map a Muso only for fixing. Optionally you can add a more detailed biog and upload additional photos on the 2nd and 3rd tabs.

The Skill Selector tool is on the 4th tab. See the screenshot below for how to use it. You can add up to 10 skills. If you can't find some of your skills, try searching for genre or style. If you think an important skill is missing from our list, let us know.

The area editor is on the last tab. See the screenshot below for how to use it. You can add multiple areas and adjust the size of each area individually using the slider.

See the screenshot below where to find the Subscription tab which shows you your curent membership level and allows you to purchase a paid membership.