Live Music -  all of us  all love it in one form or another – whether a classical orchestral performance or a Rock and Roll performance in a football stadium or somewhere in amidst, 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 Clubs and musician 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 talent? It does exist and there are some decidedly wonderful musicians around, with amazing repertoire and amazing personal ities. Each has a varying musical style entertain the crowds varying ly – and all are crowd pleasers. So the problem is not lack of talent – the problem is where to play.
Up until decidedly recently it has been 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. However it’s furthermore due to the apathy of the listening public. When a Club organizes live music the owner has to pay the musician s. If only ten people turn up then he has lost resources. Virtually all of these Clubs do not charge a cover or add to the drinks prices, they hope enough people 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 wonderful 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 varying. 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 Assuming that the re is a crowd to performance 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  guide to keep you informed. There is furthermore a amazing web site www.spanishbrolly.com where you can find information about who’s playing where, and www.spanishproperty-direct.co.uk has a lot of articles about live music and reviews of musician s.
But these sources furthermore need the input from both the Clubs and musician s.
So  all of us  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 can find pleasure in yourself. Invite your friends, tell their friends, word of mouth is amazing advertising. The musicians need Clubs to performance and crowds to performance to, the Clubs need our help 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’s for our worth following all and what better than sitting outdoors with a wonderful cold drink, listening to a amazing performer playing your favorite music. . Where else can you get free live music?
The listening public need to get behind our Clubs and help them – they do a thankless task of providing music, dealing with musicians ego’s and getting paid hardly anything for it, so the least  all of us  can do is help them. Go do something varying today and visit a live performance. See you there!!