Diversification

Today each musician who's decided to make music into a full time job probably has got to diversify. So, the jobs I do to make it happen can be broken down thus:

Musician-ing
Playing gigs in the following formations:

• As a solo act - Every Monday at noon and every Wednesday at 10am I perform for families at Airplay Cafe, and make good money just off of tips. It also looks like I might get a private party gig later this year...
  
• As a duo - This very night I'm playing with my bass player and dear friend Luke Dennis at Backspace in downtown Portland. It looks like we'll play together out in McMinville (still developing...) in late May.
  
• As a trio - Next month our acoustic trio will perform at a grade school (date TBD) through Young Audiences, featuring our program "Northwest Bedrock Songs" which invovles a slideshow of Erik Sandgrens' and Dee Vadnais' paintings (digitally projected on a screen hung behind the band) that play along to folk n' blues songs written in and about the Northwest.
• As a full band. The next such gig will come in May, when we'll be playing Mississippi Pizza Pub (see myspace.com/renegademinstrels for details).
  

Teaching

• Guitar Lessons - private lessons and classroom lessons.
• Music Appreciation class - I'll start teaching this class for the first time ever next week. I'm stoked for this 'cause it's gonna be a righteous time for me to convert young kids into disciples of the musical traditions they really should know as upstanding American citizens.
  

That's just to show you the beginning of what it takes to make this work--I'm also constantly on the look out for odd jobs and normal jobs to help make ends meet. Oh, hard ain't it hard, as the song says.

Anyways, the reason I started this post was to pose this question to you: Should I throw all of this activity under the umbrella of "Renegade Minstrels," as I currently do? Clearly solo gigs don't work so well from a grammatical standpoint--I've had it suggested that I just drop the last "s" and just call the whole thing Renegade Minstrel (even when playing as a full band), seeing as I'm the frontman, not to mention the mover and shaker behind what this band does. But I don't like that because I want this band to be about something that's bigger than me, onstage and off.

But from a brand perspective, it's at best a hassle--and at the worst misleading--to tell you Renegade Minstrels is playing tonight, but you show up and it's a duo or trio deal when you expected the full band you hear on most of our album. But then, I can use the freedom of the our mailing list and other new media to make it clear to everyone what they're gonna see when.

So what route do you suggest? Should I just keep plugging along with all the activities above called "Renegade Minstrels" or should I break it down into the various elements of that entity, and give 'em all another name?