How to Use Musi-Cal's Online Concert Calendar

Musi-Cal is an ingenious way to keep track of concerts by a particular artist or in a particular city or region. If you're an artist, it's the industry standard site for posting your schedule. Here's how to make the most of this incredible resource.

Difficulty Level: easy     Time Required: 20 min

1. Go to Musi-Cal: http://www.musi-cal.com - or go directly to the search form,
2. In the search form, search by artist, venue, or city. View results.
3. To get a periodic e-mail listing concerts that match your desired criteria, see the dialogue box offering to repeat this search and e-mail you the results. Pick the frequency (weekly/monthly).
4. To create a Musi-Cal calendar search box on your own webpage, simply paste the following HTML into the source code of the desired page:
   
   <center>
   <form method="GET" action="http://www.musi-cal.com/cgi-bin/simple-search">
   <input type=radio name="key" value="performer">performer
   <input type=radio checked name="key" value="city">city
   <input type=radio name="key" value="venue">venue
   <input type=radio name="key" value="event">event<br>
   <input type="text" name="value">
   <input type="submit" value="Search">
   </form>
   </center>
   
   
5. You can customize the form on your page for a particular club or performer. Simply add a "value=" string before the Search line. To search concert listings at the Freight and Salvage, for instance, do this:
   
   <center>
   <form method="GET" action="http://www.musi-cal.com/cgi-bin/simple-search">
   <input type=radio name="key" value="performer">performer
   <input type=radio name="key" value="city">city
   <input type=radio checked name="key" value="venue">venue
   <input type=radio name="key" value="event">event
   <input type="text" name="value" value="Freight and Salvage">
   <input type="submit" value="Search">
   </form>
   </center>
   
6. ARTISTS: When you have a date or dates to submit, simply go to the submission form and type in all the information. Simply go to: http://www.musi-cal.com/cgi-bin/check-itinerary
7. 2. E-mail a list of gigs in one of the accepted formats and Musi-Cal will do the rest.
8. Create a webpage using the recommended table set-up and submit the location of the page to Musi-Cal. .
9. You can find sample tables at: http://www.musi-cal.com/sample-table.shtml.
10. submit the page's URL to: http://www.musi-cal.com/web-itineraries.shtml and you're all set. Simply keep your tabular schedule up to date and the world will have access to it through Musi-Cal.

Tips:

1. Musi-Cal lists only the concerts that have been submitted to it, usually by artists or their representatives. Therefore, Musi-Cal's listings are neither exhaustive nor always current.
2. Listings on the net, like anywhere else, are subject to changes or errors. You should always call in advance to confirm dates, times and ticket availability.
3. For useful links to specific pages in Musi-Cal, go to my Concert Listings netlinks page.
   

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• Concert Listings - Net Links Page
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Hugh Blumenfeld, Editor
hugh@balladtree.com