Why Live Music Changes Lives
With live music moving towards 'live streams' in today's challenging times, we are all eagerly waiting to go back to a life of waiting in long lines only to get up in front of the stage and flaunt our front row cred to the world. We believe that day is going to be soon, live music changes lives and is here to stay. takes us through the experience all over again well within the safe confines of your homes. Now, picture this. It’s a beautiful, sunny day in your local city – except you are unaware of this as you stand, shoulder to shoulder with strangers from all degrees of life. Packed like farm animals inside a dark auditorium awaiting the blinding of strobe lights and deafening of speakers with enough SPL per watt to uproot a forest. And yet, you leave this loud, crammed, seemingly undesirable experience as an inspired, satisfied and overall happier individual; and the question is: why? Why humans not only love, but crave the live music atmosphere, dates back to practically the dawn of mankind. Even in prehistoric times, the art of live music was believed to play part in the lives of cavemen and women. Artifacts found revealing cave drawings of people dancing—and let’s be honest, who dances without music? Jump forward a few hundred-millennia to Ancient Greece where live performances of theater and music became not only a source of entrainment but also a means of projecting societal norms. 1700s: Opera emerges as a new type of live music performance; initiating a need for large showcase venues such as La Scala in Milan. 1850: Jenny Linda makes her debut in America, exceeding the crowd size brought out by any preceding artist. 1950s: Rock and Roll broke down the race barrier by showcasing black and white artists side-by-side on a shared stage.
Live concerts are the best part of the music industry as a fan because of the experience.