When you think of concerts, you think of nationwide tours by a world renowned band. You think of arenas, filled to the brim with excited fans, and merch booth upon merch booth. As you picture it in your head, you can almost feel your eardrums shattering with the combined volume of the music and the crowd. There’re laser lights, on stage theatrics and your mind is blown away as you try to put your attention onto everything at once. It’s a wonderful mental image.
But there’s also the type of concert where the band isn’t famous, and there are only a handful of people there instead of a hundred. Instead of a big arena, the venue is somewhere where the music might only serve as a background instead of a main attraction. This might not sound like
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It’s a very tight-knit community, filled with people who genuinely enjoy the music and are willing to see them time and time again. You may never see any of them outside of concerts, but whenever you do see them, it’s this instant connection thanks to the music. You feel a sense of community, a sense of belonging. No other thing is quite like it, and that sense of community is going to be part of what keeps you coming back for more.
Ease of Access: They’re called local bands for a reason. More often than not, local bands are only booking gigs that are one to three hours from the town that they originate from. Even if they do travel further away, they’ll always book plenty of gigs right there in their home town. So you don’t have to worry about traveling hours away to the bigger city, not to mention hotel rooms and other expenses that come with it.
Local bands book actual, small venues all of the time; but it’s a lot more common that they’re just playing at bars, restaurants, parks, and any other type of establishment that allows live music. This means that instead of booking your tickets for the concerts months in advance, you can just head on over to wherever they’re playing and jam out for as long as you’d
things like the fans' behavior, the general style of the band, and most importantly, the
By going to as many concerts as they can, fans help the band sell more and you help themselves look and feel like a bigger fan. I personally went to all of their bay area concerts and had to drive down to Pasadena, CA for one when they didn 't have a show here. This made me feel and seem very devoted to the band . Socializing is another big thing in the community of directioners, it helps you meet more people in the same community and creates friendships. For example, just last week I visited a friend in Stanford University who I met through One Direction and I 've made many other online friends that i have more in common with than people around me. Many fans devote their time to fan accounts that they have created to be able to connect with fans and talk about their problems and also talk about the bands
and end on Monday, August 18. The promoters had printed up 60,000 tickets to be sold making it the biggest concert event of it’s time. There was very little promotion of it
...Maine. More than 80,000 fans show up to these events. These events are usually the cause of huge traffic jams and a three day party. People come from all over the world just to experience the sense of community, as well as the intriguing music.
Warped Tour each day last about 12 ½ hours. It will always be held outside. It goes on rain or shine. The aftermath of Warped is when it’s done in one place it will always move to another (unless of course it’s over). Parents like kids going to Warped so they get out of the house for more than an hour. Warped Tour is held in the summer only because that is when teens can go because of summer vacation. The official name for Warped Tour is “Vans Warped Tour”. Kevin Lyman has one daughter named Sierra Lyman. Sierra volunteers every year at Warped Tour and she works at the merchandise cart. She is twenty years old. For bands and workers the food/water is free. If you pre-order the tickets it’s only twenty dollars. When you buy them the day/week/month before the tickets cost forty dollars. It goes on every year. Two million (and more) go to it each year. People go to it to see/meet their favorite people. (Not just bands). Bands
During a musical performance many elements to be looked are not easily recognized by the average critic. A musical performance has multiple interactions taking place between the music, text, performers, audience, and space that all can contribute to a great performance. Overwhelming majority of the audience does not realize so much can be looked at during a single performance. At a performance by the University of Maryland Marching Band I was able to analyze the Musical Sound, Contexts of the Performance, and Interpretation of the Performance.
On Monday March 25, some members of the baseball team, my girlfriend, and I traveled to Murray State University to watch a concert performed by Nelly and the St. Lunatics. It was a terrible night to go anywhere because it was raining and storming the whole way, but there was nothing that was going to stop us from going to the concert. We where all so hyped up about it and couldn’t wait to head out. My brother, who attends Murray State, had gotten us excellent seats about seventy-five feet away from the stage.
In the year 2011, Rigby High School’s Concert Band was coming to the close of another great concert. They were getting to a very dramatic part of the song Ave Maria, and during a break in the melodies, a sharp baby cry was heard throughout the auditorium, followed by a loud yell from a parent. The rest of the concert was a disaster, with conversation and talking heard in the recording. In fact, Rigby has not once gotten a clean recording without conversation and noises in the concerts. People unfortunately do not understand how to behave during concerts of any type. With some concerts and performances, it is ok to vocalize, but concert band is not one of them. To help explain this, concert band will be compared to jazz band in its origins, type, and expectations to show why this type of behavior is unacceptable.
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As a person who is passionate about music, I am the one who often goes to the live performances.
As the dark stadium filled with fire, with the sounds of guns and bombs exploding everywhere, the crazed fans yelled at the top of their lungs. The enormous stage was rumbling with the sound of a single guitar as the band slowly started their next encore performance. Soon after I realized that I was actually at the Sanitarium concert listening to Metallica play "One", I thought to my self, "Is this real, am I actually here right now?" I had a weird feeling the entire time because I had worked all summer to simply listen to music with a bunch of strangers.
If someone were to ask people ever wanted to see almost every artist from any genre of music in one place? Of course, anyone would say yes, because most people haven't been to an event like the huge one that happens in California each year. This is an event many people save up all year to attend just maybe once in their life time. The Coachella Music and Arts Festival, it is one of the most talked about festivals that this generation knows about. It is like a whole new world for most people each time they attend.
Have you ever heard of bands that are local? Some bands play at late night events but you’ve never heard of them. That’s because they don’t have anywhere to start so people out of the city can listen to them. How do you think they can get more fans? Putting a video on YouTube rarely works especially if it doesn’t come from a popular sponsor. The band members record themselves and upload it to a website and have the music the uploaded free. In order for there to be more fans, the band needs to have their own music free. Someone that hasn’t heard of an artist won’t pay to listen to their songs, they won’t know if it’ll be a good ...
I had never really been to a big concert that had a well-known band. A couple of weeks before the concert I got some information about it, but really didn't think much of it. I talked with some friends about the band and we all casually decided to go get tickets for it. Little did I know what an absolutely spectacular time I would have.
After the show had ended, I felt slightly empty. I had waited years and months for that night, and it was over in the blink of an eye. Although I was sad that the show was over, I felt completely content. Now, when I hear their songs, I get to remember what it felt like to hear the band perform them live. I can watch the videos and try to wrap my mind around how it was real. Going to my first concert was an unparalleled experience that I will always cherish. The ambiance, the band’s performance and the unity the audience