{{Short description|Person in charge of logistics and business dealings for an artist's tour}} {{Multiple issues| {{refimprove|date=December 2023}} {{COI|date=December 2011}} }}
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== <!---♦♦♦ Only add a person to this list if they already have their own article on the English Wikipedia ♦♦♦---> <!---♦♦♦ Please keep the list in alphabetical order by LAST NAME ♦♦♦---> *Bob Adams, 1960s and 1970s British road manager (retired 1981)<ref>The Beatles Who's Who by Bill Harry. Aurum Press. {{ISBN|0-906053-38-2}}</ref>
==See also== *Road crew *Body man
==References== {{Reflist}}
Category:Occupations in music Category:Road crew Category:Concert tours