Where is The Live Music in The North Costa Blanca?

Live Music – all of us all love it in one form or another – whether a classical orchestral concert or a Rock n Roll concert in a football stadium or somewhere in among, hardly anything 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 artists.

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

Up until very recently it has been c venue 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. Nonetheless it’s additionally due to the apathy of the listening public. When a Club organizes live music the owner has to pay the artists. If only ten individuals turn up then he has lost money. Many of these Clubs do not 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 can be nice people but they’re also 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 all of us 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’s going on. Well there are a number of sources. The Inland Trader for one, has a what’s on  drive to keep you informed. There is also a amazing website www.spanishbrolly.com where you may find information about who’s playing where, and www.spanishproperty-direct.co.uk has many articles about live music and reviews of musicians.

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

So all of us have a responsibility for endorse ing to make a success of live music. If you know a Club organizing live music go and visit – you could enjoy yourself. Invite your companions, tell their companions, word of mouth is amazing advertising. The musicians need Clubs to performance and crowds to performance to, the Clubs need our support to keep providing us with live music, so all of us 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 nice cold drink, listening to a amazing performer playing your favorite music. . Where else could you get free live music?

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