An event such as attending concerts is something many people wish to achieve on their bucket lists, making the experience all the more pleasurable if done with friends.
Concert performances typically feature performers on a stage raised above the audience with their music amplified. Concerts can take place either specifically designed concert halls, school auditoriums or nightclubs.
Entertainment
Many artists prefer to add other forms of entertainment to enhance the musical experience, such as lighting, image magnification systems and pre-recorded videos; inflatables, artwork or set pieces as set pieces; theatrical smoke effects as well as pyrotechnic effects are just some examples of additional forms of augmentation.
Concerts can be an exhilarating experience when attended with friends or family. Concerts also present an ideal opportunity to meet new people who share your taste in music – providing conversations topics as well as new tunes!
Concerts typically last two to three hours, depending on the number of bands or artists performing. Some performances last even longer with performers playing an array of their biggest hits and audience favorites. Concerts may take place in various settings from private homes and small nightclubs all the way to stadiums with dedicated concert halls; open air performances (often called recitals) may also occur.
Music Lover’s Paradise
Salzburg, Austria is best-known for two things: being home to one of the world’s most esteemed composers was born there; and featuring in popular musical-film The Sound of Music as one example of its rich musical legacy. Yet its musical legacy extends far beyond these two examples alone.
Attending concerts activates neural pathways linked to rewards and pleasure. When we dance, clap, sing at concerts, dopamine is released by our brain and amplifies positive emotions.
Being among fellow fans can create an uplifting sense of community that can help those struggling with depression or anxiety feel supported and cared for.
Concerts can also provide an effective form of exercise. Even while sitting, constant movement and an elevated heart rate help burn lots of calories while stimulating neurogenesis, which grows new brain neurons to prevent memory loss in old age. No wonder music lovers love concerts!
A Judgement Free Zone
Concerts offer an ideal environment to share a mutual passion for music without judgment from others, which creates opportunities for new friendships to form and lasting memories to be made.
Musicians can use their influence to ensure concerts are judgement free zones by creating an inclusive and supportive atmosphere for their fans. Utilizing social media hashtags or offering themed A4 signs with space for fans to write on can help make concert attendees feel safe. Julia Michaels recently provided this kind of sign prior to her concert as well as discussing anxiety and mental health, encouraging attendees to let loose and sing freely.
Live music entertainment comes with many positive advantages; however, concerts also create negative environmental effects due to large rigs used to move stages and gas required to reach venues. Concerts also leave an ecological footprint behind which musicians can lessen by scaling back tours and choosing vehicles with reduced carbon emissions.
Safe Area
Concerts provide a uniquely memorable musical experience, uniting music lovers with their favorite artists. A lot goes into producing the ideal concert experience from bright lights to electric crowds cheering along every word chanted back by performers. However, safety should never be taken for granted and given recent tragedies in Pulse and Las Vegas, people have become extremely mindful about potential unsafe situations at concerts.
Implement a “see something, say something” policy where guests can report unsafe or inappropriate behavior directly to an usher, security staff member, or UTPD officer in order to feel safer at their event and increase trust between attendees and venue. This will make attendees feel safer while building stronger ties between attendees and the venue.
As well, it’s crucial that people bring a friend or group when entering, attending events and exiting an area, to feel safer and reduce chances of getting lost or separated in crowds.