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Ihe band plays. The crowd
goes wild. And Matt Peveto
arranges yet another gig for
the up-and-coming band, The Cory
Morrow Band.
Peveto, a senior journalism ma
jor, is a booking agent and promot
er for local bands.
His major client is The Coiy Mor
row Band. He started working for
Morrow five months ago.
“I was a big fan of Cory’s a year
ago,” Peveto said. “I would go listen
to them play every Wednesday
night at The Tap.”
Seven months ago, Peveto ap
proached Morrow about helping
the band find places to play. He be
gan working for the Cory Morrow
Band in May.
Peveto said his job as a booking
agent has mostly been trial and er
ror. He has only taken one man
agement class, but does what he
knows how to do. When he comes
to a problem he finds a solution.
Peveto said he believes in the
AMY DUNLAP/The Battalion
Matt Peveto, a senior journalism
major, is a booking agent for bands.
band and jumps in head first.
“It’s definitely not what you
know, but who you know and how
well you know them,” Peveto said.
His company, Matt Peveto
Entertainment, often entails a forty
hour working week, including six to
seven hours a day on the phone.
Peveto also spends his spare time
marketing bands.
“I have to sell them to the
crowd,” he said. “Promotion is the
key to having a good band. Without
fans you don’t have bands.”
But Peveto said marketing a
band is not all fun and games. There
are risks involved — losing money
and making mistakes.
“My first print mail-out had four
misspelled words,” Peveto said.
He said he firmly believes in
“bouncing back” after a disap
pointment.
“It’s not how hard you fall; it’s
how fast you get up,” he said.
The bands he promotes fall into
the Texas music category.
“Some people are calling it
Americana," Peveto said.
Such bands follow in the foot
steps ofWillie Nelson, Waylon Jen
nings and Jerry JeffWalker.
The next two months holds a lot
in store for Matt Peveto Entertain
ment. He has 38 dates lined up for
The Cory Morrow Band.
Sept. 10 the band will open for
Jack Ingram hosted by the Delta Chi’s
The Cory Morrow Band will take
the stage again Sept. 27 with The
Front Porch Boys at Sons of Her
mann Hall.
On Oct. 3, The Cory Morrow
Band will be at Shadow Canyon
with Mark Sheagberg and Dickson
Productions.
Peveto is traveling to Nashville
with the band in March.
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good bands get their biggest bre;
there,” he said.
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you know, hut who you
know and how well you
know them.”
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said. “I’m in it for the business. And,
of course, to have fun.”
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and support ing a family will be nexr
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