Concert Venues

Live Music – all of us all love it in one form or another – whether a classical orchestral performance or a Rock n Roll performance in a football stadium or somewhere in between, little quite gets the juices flowing than hearing your favorite song played live. If you live in South Costa Blanca or the Costa Del Sol, there is an abundance of Venues and performers.

But where is it in North Costa Blanca?

Go to Javea or Benidorm on any night of the week you’ll find a bar playing live music, but try locating anything in Oliva, Ontinyent or roundabouts and you’d be lucky to find the odd publican playing a banjo.

So where is all the skill? It does exist and there are some particularly good performers around, with amazing repertoire and amazing individual ities. Each has a diverse musical style entertain the crowds diverse ly – and all are crowd pleasers. So the problem isn’t lack of skill – the problem is where to play.

Up until very recently it was c club enging to find anywhere to host live music, in part because of the Local council attitude who frown upon live music yet are happy to allow loud fireworks at 2AM. However it’s furthermore due to the apathy of the listening public. When a Club organizes live music the owner has to pay the musicians. If only ten individuals turn up then he has lost money. Most of these Clubs don’t charge a cover or add to the drinks prices, they hope enough individuals turn up to make it worth their while.

But imagine going for four weeks and managing to get 10 people in. Wouldn’t you be disheartened? I’m sure I would. They may be good people but they’re furthermore business people who make a living.

In some Clubs the owners put on live music and the turnout is in divergent. These places need a regular following to keep going and only by doing so will we get to see more acts, because the acts will only come If the re is a crowd to play to – and that means you need to do something.

So how do you find out about what is going on. Well there are a number of sources. The Inland Trader for one, has a what is on  persuade to keep you informed. There is likewise a excellent web site www.spanishbrolly.com where you might find information about who’s playing where, and www.spanishproperty-direct.co.uk has many articles about live music and reviews of artists.

But these sources additionally need the input from both the Clubs and artists.

So we have a responsibility for help ing to make a success of live music. If you know a Club organizing live music go and visit – you could find pleasure in yourself. Invite your companions, tell their companions, word of mouth is excellent advertising. The performers need Clubs to performance and crowds to performance to, the Clubs need our guide to keep providing us with live music, so we need to get behind the Clubs that put on live music – not next week, next month – but NOW – it is for our worth after all and what better than sitting outdoors with a good cold drink, listening to a excellent performer playing your favorite music. . Where else could you get free live music?

The listening public need to get behind our Clubs and guide them – they do a thankless task of providing music, dealing with performers ego’s and getting paid nothing for it, so the least all of us can do is guide them. Go do something divergent today and visit a live concert. See you there!!