Where is The Live Music in The North Costa Blanca?

Live Music -  we  all love it in one form or another – whether a classical orchestral performance or a Rock performance in a football stadium or somewhere in among, 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 artist s.
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  surprisingly wonderful artists around, with great repertoire and great individual ities. Each has a diverse musical style entertain the crowds diversely – and all are crowd pleasers. So the problem is not lack of skill – the problem is where to play.
Up until  surprisingly recently it was difficult 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. Nonetheless it’s additionally due to the apathy of the listening public. When a Venue organizes live music the owner has to pay the artist s. If only ten individuals turn up then he has lost money. Most of these Venues 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 individuals in. Wouldn’t you be disheartened? I’m sure I would. They may be wonderful individuals but they’re additionally business individuals who make a living.
In some Venues the owners put on live music and the turnout is in diverse. The 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’s additionally a great website 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 artist s.
But these sources additionally need the input from both the Venues and artist s.
So  we  have a responsibility for advocate ing to make a success of live music. If you know a Venue organizing live music go and visit – you might find pleasure in yourself. Invite your friends, tell their friends, word of mouth is great advertising. The artists need Venues to play and crowds to play to, the Venues need our help to keep providing us with live music, so  we  need to get behind the Venues that put on live music – not next week, next month – but NOW – it’s for our worth after all and what better than sitting outdoors with a wonderful cold drink, listening to a great band playing your favorite music. . Where else might you get free live music?
The listening public need to get behind our Venues and help them – they do a thankless task of providing music, dealing with artists ego’s and getting paid little for it, so the least  we  can do is help them. Go do something diverse now and visit a live performance. See you there!!