Road manager

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title: "Road manager" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["occupations-in-music", "road-crew", "concert-tours"] description: "Person in charge of logistics and business dealings for an artist's tour" topic_path: "arts" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_manager" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Person in charge of logistics and business dealings for an artist's tour ::

In the music industry, a road manager is a person who works with small to mid-size tours (in terms of personnel involved, based on the size of the production). Job responsibilities include (but are not limited to):

• advancing show dates
• making travel and hotel arrangements (for all group members)
• hiring backline techs or recommending techs to be hired (depending on authority given by artist management)
• coordinating artist media obligations (normally while on tour, but could be anytime)
• ensuring artist rider requirements are met
• collecting payments due to the artist at showtime (or signing off on amount due to be sent via wire, depending on arrangements made by artist management)
• making vendor payments (or submission of amounts due to vendors to artist management)
• handling personnel issues
• distributing per diem (depending on per diem schedule, approved by artist management)

Road managers can be confused with tour managers. Generally speaking, though, tour managers work with upper-mid to large scale tours and are often granted a much greater degree of authority in tour operations.

Notable people

• Bob Adams, 1960s and 1970s British road manager (retired 1981)

References

References

1. The Beatles Who's Who by Bill Harry. Aurum Press. {{ISBN. 0-906053-38-2

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