The Celebrity Effect: How Booking a Celebrity Can Skyrocket Your Event’s Success
Get More Bang for Your Buck: Why Booking a Celebrity Performer is Worth the Cost Are you tired of hosting the same lackluster events year after year? Do you want to take your gathering from ordinary to extraordinary? Well, look no further than the secret ingredient that will skyrocket your event’s success: booking a celebrity […]
Music Venues Production: Acoustics
Music venues spend a lot of time addressing the production audio needs for their events. Whether it’s an outdoor temporary stage, a nightclub venue, theater, performance center or even a concert hall, a lot of effort and resources are directed at the PA system with the right mixing board, amplifiers and speakers for the performances […]
Creative Concert Venue Options for Events
Expand your concert venue options when planning a live event. After all, you want your guests to have a memorable experience. Being creative in choosing an event venue can lead to a memorable experience for those attending it. This can be a key factor to having a successful event. Concert Venue Options Take Many Forms […]
How to Get Your Venue Part of a Concert Tour
A concert tour for most bands is built around setting up priority shows at venues where they will draw a large audience and expect to have a good pay day. These priority shows are called anchor dates and they are chosen to make most, if not all, of the budget back for the tour. If […]
Live Event Production: Keeping It Safe
In today’s world anyone involved in live event production knows the importance of a well thought out security plan. Whether it’s concert production in a permanent venue or festival production in a temporary outdoor setting, having a plan designed specifically for the event to minimize the risk to people, and property is a vital part […]
Event Music: Music Licensing Facts
Do you have event music at your nightclub, corporate function, fair or festival? Then you need to license it. It’s that simple. Actually, it isn’t in the United States. More about that later. Even private parties are not exempt unless they fit the definition of a private event when it comes to the need for […]
7 Event Marketing Strategies for Your Next Concert Promotion
Why is event marketing important? The answer is simple: because it works. Event marketing is an important part of the music industry. It has been proven to increase ticket sales and online traffic, while also increasing awareness of your brand. Live event marketing can be done by sending out a press release, creating a website […]
Concert Production: A Tale of 2 Approaches
As a concert production specialist for TSE Entertainment, I found myself somewhere close to Galveston, Texas this past winter conducting a site visit with a well-to-do client. The goal was to assess the possibility of doing live event production at a beach house with a top talent country artist or two. The initial idea was […]
Texas Task Force on Concert Safety
Last November, the Astroworld Festival took place with about 50,000 mostly young adults present for this event held in a parking lot. The outdoor nature of the Astroworld Festival event with its temporary structures contributed to increased safety risks. Ten people died and approximately 300 people were injured at the event due to a crowd […]
Concert Production: A Busy and Challenging Weekend
The following three events demonstrate the range of concert production services that TSE can handle basically simultaneously. One especially is a real challenge, but just the kind of challenge that TSE Entertainment likes to take on. April 23: Country Music Festival in an Arena TSE is working with the Promoter, ETX Whiskey and Wine, to […]
Concert Production: Do You Pick Your Audience or Do They Pick You?
Anyone involved in concert production should be interested in the music genres favored by Americans. The results of a new survey released by CBS News/YouGov at the beginning of April validates once again America’s taste in music and how they listen to it. It’s one of a number of such surveys over the years that […]
4 Ways an Entertainment Agency Can Help Music Venues
Booking the right acts for your live music venue is important. You want to draw enough people to the event to make it financially successful for you. For most venues selling food and beverages is how they profit from having live entertainment at their venues. Ticket sales can help also, but most if not all […]
4 Key Audio Specs for Outdoor Concert and Festival Production
Producing an outdoor concert or other types of festival entertainment requires dealing with a myriad of things involved before the performance can take place. The entertainers you book have both technical and hospitality requirements for their performance. The technical requirements become part of the local production needs for the event. Local production are the elements […]
Booking Live Entertainment: Mixing and Matching
Booking live entertainment for a private event can be a challenging process, especially if you are unsure where to start. It’s another thing to stress about you as you do you planning for whatever kind of event it may be. Professional singers and bands are usually what comes to mind when live entertainment is brought […]
Live Concert Promotion: Artists & Venues Have a Role
Live concert promotion in 2021 is more critical than ever. “Small live music establishments will be a thing of the past.” “The only businesses in the music industry that will be left standing are the big boys, the ones that can handle the blow.” These and statements like these are ones that I’ve heard a […]
Booking Entertainment: Advancing the Show
The booking entertainment process is more than hiring a band. Of course, booking a band and getting a contract with them for your event is particularly important. As the performance approaches, another critical part of the entertainment booking process kicks in. It’s called “Advancing the Show.” “Advancing the Show” is Critical Part of the Booking […]
How to Book Entertainment for Your Events
Knowing the easiest way to book entertainment for your events will become important as the public health restrictions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic are relaxed and people can once again host live entertainment events. No matter what type of event you are planning, knowing how to book entertainment efficiently and confidently will serve you well. […]
Drive-In Concerts: Live Music Model
Drive-In Concerts are now popular as a means for musicians to deliver their live music to fans in the era of the Coronavirus pandemic. The Drive-In concert is one model for delivering a music concert experience to fans. We’ve highlighted other approaches as part of our series on the different approaches venues and promoters are […]
Booking Tejano Bands: What You Need to Know
Tejano bands and their music are part of the musical heritage of Texas. Any Texas-based entertainment booking agency will do Tejano music booking as part of the normal course of doing business in Texas and the Southwest. In fact, the Tejano music genre and its counterpart on the Mexican side of the border, Música Norteña, […]
A Model for Outdoor Concert Venues During the Pandemic
If you are lucky enough to have access to a baseball stadium, you may have one of the better outdoor concert venues to bring back live entertainment. The recent 4th of July Concert, featuring Stuart Granger at the Round Rock Express Dell Diamond Stadium in Round Rock, Texas may show us one way. Live music […]
Booking Benefit Concerts to Raise Money and Awareness
Booking benefit concerts is a common and popular approach to raise money for an range of good charities. Examples of better-known concerts to raise funds include Live Aid, Farm Aid, and The Concert for Bangladesh. Live Aid was a 16-hour, worldwide concert, held July 13, 1985, and raised over $125 million for famine relief in […]
Managing Outdoor Concerts: Be Prepared
There is one thing you can’t control when managing outdoor concerts; the weather. For example, we had wind, rain and hail and unseasonably cold temperatures at one of our turnkey outdoor concert event in April that kept the crowd small even as the weather got better as the showtime approached. Managing Outdoor Concerts for the […]
Booking Entertainers: Know Your Target Audience
Want a packed house at your next live music event? One key to make that happen is to make sure you are booking entertainers that are a good fit for the people you wan to draw for the live entertainment event and vice versa. Music comes in all different genres and styles ranging from country […]
Entertainment Booking: One Show but 3 Different Customers
An entertainment booking agency must satisfy three different customers when choosing the performers for an event. While it may be the venue or promoter that employs them to find the appropriate act for their event, booking agencies must also meet the needs and expectations of the performers they book as well as the audience that […]
