Why America Loves Live Music Concerts
A live concert can often be a way more fulfilling experience than listening to recorded music. And Americans know this. Music lovers meet their desires to listen to their favorite music and to see the artists performing live in person at the same.
Attending a live concert means being in close contact with the artist or band you are used to listening to digitally, and watching on TV, which cannot carry the same energy and sensations that a live show can convey, not even if they are very sophisticated.
A live concert, indeed, isn't only just the music. You don't only listen. You feel it with all of your senses, your heart and mind. It is interesting because it overcomes or at least lessens the distance between the music and the listeners, artists and spectators.
When performers are on stage, the notes coming from their voices and instruments do not pass through any technological device but come to audiences through the air alone. This makes a tremendous difference!
Indeed, digital music with so many modifications can have a better quality than that in live concerts. But live bands may create another version of the music to make something unique, or use different instruments and tone to wow the fans and showcase their versatility - this makes the music more interesting than just listening on a phone or other digital device.
In the USA, live music concerts are a serious matter and serious business too; many artists make most of their annual earnings from tours in various cities including live performance shows where fans come out in their multitude to watch the real life performance and feel of their artists.
It used to be that artists and bands made most of their money selling albums. Today, it's concert tours.
It's uplifting. A recent top list of cities with live music in the USA include Boston, NYC, Chicago, Los Angeles, Austin, Madison, New Orleans, Las Vegas, Denver, Milwaukee, the Twin Cities, Seattle, Portland, and Nashville amounting to millions in shows yearly.
Concerts are exciting (and exhausting) for the performers. Jumping, dancing and sweating for hours while the screams of their fans when they start playing their top hits is tremendous, they live for this.
Country music is also very popular in live concerts; the simplicity of the music makes it very enjoyable to hear live. Country musicians in the U.S. in particular uses this medium to generate income as well as to please their fans. Often when promoting a show, a free live concert is set up first to help entice fans to come see them live in their city when they visit on tour. The marketing that goes into a U.S. concert tour is immense.
And each summer, a plethora of outdoor music festivals are scheduled across the country that attract hundreds of thousands of fans. From Coachella to Stagecoach, festivals have only grown in popularity in recent years.
The live music concert industry continues to grow in the U.S. Some of the big names slated to tour America in 2017 include Bruno mars, Jay Z, Ed Sheeran, U2, Roger Waters, Arcade fire, Lady Gaga, Lorde, Katy Perry, Pink, Paul McCartney, Tom Petty and many other prominent acts. So all Americans have to do is go online to shop for tickets and check out the ones coming to your city next.