List your act or experience

For musicians, bands, DJs, MCs, dancers, kids entertainers, face painters, workshop hosts and anyone who performs at markets, festivals and events.

About 12 minutes to read

Before you start

  • A Market Hive SA account, and you are logged in
  • A good photo of you performing
  • A link to a video, or your Spotify, YouTube or Apple Music page
  • Optional: your technical rider as a PDF

Step 1: Open the form and choose Entertainment

On your dashboard click + Create a listing, then click Entertainment so it is highlighted in gold.

Four buttons labelled Vendor, Market, Supplier and Entertainment.
Click Entertainment.

Experiences count too

This is not only for performers. Workshops, demonstrations, craft activities and anything else that gives visitors something to do belongs here.

Step 2: Business details

Your name is your act name, the one on the poster. The description should tell an organiser what happens when you turn up: what you play, how long, how loud, and what kind of crowd it suits.

The Business details section with boxes for name, description and category.
Use the name you perform under.

Step 3: Performer details

The Performer details section with boxes for business name, contact person, mobile number, public email, province and travel areas.
Who to call, and how far you will travel.

Travel areas is the field that gets acts booked. An organiser in another town will not even enquire unless you have said you travel there. If you will travel for the right fee, say so.

Step 4: What do you perform?

The 'What do you perform?' section with grouped performance category tick boxes and music genre tick boxes.
Categories are grouped. Tick everything you genuinely do.
  • Performance categories - grouped by kind of act: live music, DJs, hosts and MCs, dance, children's entertainment, experiences and demonstrations, and more.
  • Music genres - if you are a musical act. Organisers who set an entertainment budget and a style on their market are matched against exactly this.

Genres drive the matching

Organisers who ticked "recommend trusted entertainers" on their market get suggestions filtered by province, budget and style. Leaving your genres blank means you are not in that pool at all.

Step 5: Performance

The Performance section with fields for performance duration, set length, number of performers, languages, years of experience, previous events, testimonials, public liability insurance, equipment supplied, price band and availability.
The practical detail an organiser needs before they can say yes.
  • Set length and duration - how long you play and how many sets.
  • Number of performers - a five-piece band and a solo guitarist are different bookings entirely.
  • Equipment supplied - whether you bring your own sound. Organisers with no PA filter hard on this.
  • Public liability insurance - some venues and councils will not allow an act without it.
  • Price band - a range, not an exact fee. It stops enquiries that were never going to work.
  • Previous events and testimonials - your track record. Name the actual markets and festivals.
  • Availability - weekends, weekdays, evenings.

Step 6: Media and promotion

The Media and promotion section with boxes for a video link, Spotify, YouTube and Apple Music links, marketing channel tick boxes and a technical rider upload.
Links to hear and see you, plus your technical rider.

An organiser will not book an act they have not heard. Put at least one link in here, even if it is a phone video of a live set. A rough real recording beats a polished nothing.

  • Video link - YouTube or Vimeo.
  • Spotify, YouTube and Apple Music - your artist pages.
  • Technical rider - a PDF of your power, stage and sound requirements.

Upload the rider even if it is simple

"Two plug points and a two metre by two metre space" is a rider. Putting it in writing prevents the awkward conversation on the day when there is nowhere to plug in.

Step 7: Images, agreements and submit

Add a main image, up to ten gallery photos, tick the five compulsory agreements and click Submit application. If you picked a plan on the Hive Memberships page first, you go straight to checkout to finish joining. Otherwise you land on your dashboard, where the listing shows as pending until a person has checked it.

The Images section with upload buttons for a main image and a gallery.
Use a live shot with a crowd in it if you have one.

Step 8: How organisers find you

Once you are live, two things happen. You appear in the entertainment directory where anyone can browse and filter. And you enter the matching pool: organisers who asked for recommendations see acts suited to their province, budget and style on their own dashboard, with the reasons each one matched.

A dashboard panel headed 'Entertainment for your market' showing matched acts with small tags giving the reasons each one matched.
What an organiser sees. Each tag is a reason you were matched.

Matching is not something you pay for

Every published act is matched. A paid plan ranks you higher in the list, it does not decide whether you appear at all. Market Hive SA never takes a booking or a commission: organisers contact you directly and you agree your own fee.

Your dashboard shows each act with its own view counts and an Edit profile button.

A panel headed 'My entertainment listings' showing a published act with view counts, and Edit profile and View buttons.
Your entertainment listings on the dashboard.
Next guideEdit and manage your listing →Change your details, swap photos, add a gallery and keep the page accurate.

Still stuck? Email [email protected] or use the contact form. Tell us which step you are on and we will walk you through it.