Jeri Goldstein

About Jeri Goldstein

Jeri Goldstein is a career development coach for professional performing artists and entertainment industry professionals. She coaches musicians performing in all genres of music from traditional acoustic to jazz, classical to world music, children’s music to blues and rock and hip-hop to rap. Jeri has also worked with authors, actors, storytellers, visual artists, and other small business owners. Her specialty is to help her clients discover their unique niche market and to create strategic business and marketing plans.

For twenty years, she was a booking agent and artist manager for touring artists on the acoustic music circuit. She worked with musicians, actors, and dancers.

She is a music and book publisher. In addition to Stroke Dialogues, Jeri has written two other books. Her award-winning book, How To Be Your Own Booking Agent THE Musician’s & Performing Artists Guide To Successful Touring, is used by musicians world-wide and has been a textbook used in music business courses throughout the U.S. and Canada. It reached #1 on Amazon in the Music Business category and has sold over 60,000 copies world-wide. The Tiny Guide to Huge Success is a collection of 100 blog posts taken from thirteen years of over 650 entries designed to help performing artists build and maintain a successful touring career.

Jeri presents in-person seminars and keynote lectures at universities, conferences and for businesses and organizations in the music and entertainment industries. Her online course Booking & Touring Success Strategies & Secrets has been taken by hundreds of professional touring artists.

In 2020 she launched her first podcast, Get Great Gigs which featured interviews with artists and other entertainment industry professionals that discussed inspiring career strategies before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Jeri began her internet-based business in 2008. Her use of internet marketing strategies and social media provided the perfect platform for her to work from anywhere. In November 2012, she set up shop in Florida to be with her dad during his recovery from a stroke. After selling her home in Charlottesville, VA, she relocated to Delray Beach, FL permanently in August 2015 and continues to live there today.

Goldstein has conducted seminars for:

Arts Councils:

Arts Council of the Blue Ridge

Arts Midwest

Arts North Carolina

Arts Northwest

British Columbia Touring Council, Canada

California Arts Council

Florida Division for Cultural Affairs

Indiana Arts Commission

Louisiana Division of the Arts

Mississippi Arts Commission

Missouri Folk Arts Program

New Orleans Arts Council

Ohio Arts Presenter's Network

Ontario Arts Council, Canada

Pennsylvania Arts Council, PennPat

Southern Arts Federation

Tennessee Arts Commission

Virginia Commission for the Arts

Organizations:

The Music Business Institute/Cutting Edge

Enoch Pratt Free Library

Folk Alliance

Independent Children's Artist Network

International Bluegrass Music Association

Louisiana Music New Orleans Pride-LMNOP

Music Entertainment Industry Educators Association-MEIEA

Schools:

Belmont University- School of Business

Carnegie Mellon University

Colorado University at Denver - Music Industry Loyola University - Music Business Department

Music Tech College

New York University - Music Department

University of Kansas - Music & Dance Department

University of Virginia - McIntire School of Music &

Continuing Professional Studies