Road manager
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In music industry, a Road Manager is a person who works with small to mid-sized tours (in terms of personnel involved, based on size of the Production). His/her responsibilities include (but are not limited to): advancing show dates, making travel & hotel arrangements (for all group members), hiring backline techs (see Road Crew), 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 show time (or signing off on amount due to be sent via wire, etc., 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), and the list goes on.
Depending on the situation, a Road Manager can often be confused with a Tour Manager. But, generally speaking, a Tour Manager will be working with upper-mid to large scale tours, and will often be granted a much greater degree of authority in tour operations.
