Understanding the Basics of Concert Sound Production
For bands, orchestras, and singers, sound is the most important consideration for their performance. Their goal is for their concert sound to be the best it can be when they perform for live events. Live events are not like a recording studio where they can control how they sound to a very high degree with […]
Declining Concert Etiquette is Dangerous
Concerts are a place where people go to celebrate music and share in the live music experience together. Within recent years, concert etiquette (or rather the lack of etiquette) has made headlines for being dangerous for both audience members and the performers. In 2021, the Astroworld Festival made headlines when Travis Scotts’ set resulted in […]
How To Problem Solve When Producing Live Events
Planning and producing live events can be a rewarding and fulfilling experience, but it doesn’t come without some challenges. As an event organizer, you are certain to face some obstacles along the way. From technical issues to difficulties with those involved in the event, when producing live events one needs to be prepared to think […]
How AI Could Revolutionize Live Music Concerts
Introduction: Technology and innovation are transforming our lives in almost every way possible. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a revolutionary technology that is rapidly changing the way we think, work, and have fun. In recent years, AI has started making inroads in the music industry, changing not only how music is created and distributed but also […]
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 […]
Electrical Needs: a Big Part of Concert Production
TSE works with a lot of different venues and settings for concert production. One of the questions we often hear from concert or festival organizers is what the power requirements will be for their event. Most permanent entertainment venues have addressed the electrical needs for their stage and the bands they book. When it comes […]
Event Planning: Key Festival Audience Engagement Ideas
Audience engagement is an important component of the event planning process for festivals and events. Annual festivals face challenges that continuing events don’t. They must find a means for audience engagement for more than the one to three days of most festival durations. The specific strategy and tactics you use for event engagement must align […]
Festival and Concert Production: Crowd Safety
After the tragedy in South Korea this past weekend, it’s time again to examine crowd management issues when planning festivals or concert production or other types of events that puts people in potentially crowded situations. Event organizers, whether for fairs, festivals, or concerts, need to manage the health and safety risks for those attending and […]
Festival Production: Why Use an Event App?
If you are a festival planner or are heavily involved in the festival production planning process, you understand that you need a mobile Internet presence and strategy. To some that’s a responsive event website and a Facebook event page. They are certainly important components of any festival’s online strategy but consider this. We are living […]
4 Proven First Steps in Festival Production
There are many elements to festival production just as there are many festival production companies. The best festival production companies share a number of traits. The good ones spend a lot of time planning for the festival; devote quality people in the effort; provide all the services needed for a successful festival; and find ways […]
Planning a Festival: Use a Good Timeline
Planning a festival and handling all the issues involved in producing a festival is no easy task. With vendors, entertainers, sponsors, and community members, there are a lot of issues to keep track of to ensure a smooth day or weekend of entertainment. In this blog, we will walk you through the process of music […]
Festival Production: Takeaways from Successful Music Festivals
Festival Production is not an easy calling. Planning for your very own music festival is exciting, yet it can be overwhelming! From securing a venue, booking entertainment, getting vendors, insurance, volunteers, marketing, etc., a lot of time and effort goes into pulling off a flawless festival. In this post, we describe some of the reasons […]
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 […]
Live Entertainment and 3D Audio: Where Is It Heading?
As a full-service live entertainment agency, TSE provides local production along with its other services. For that reason, we like to stay on top of music trends that impact the production of live entertainment events. One trend in the music industry we are following is the explosion in spatial audio recordings taking place. Spatial Audio […]
Live Event Production: Stage Band Lighting
Stage lighting Is an important facet of live event production, whether it’s a concert or another type of event. Band lighting for concerts often takes a different approach than for sound. For many shows lighting can be almost important as sound for performance’s impact on the audience. Lighting is a very important part of a […]
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 […]
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 […]
Outdoor Event Production: 5 Critical Safety Concerns
As the pandemic recedes and the weather warms, outdoor concerts, festival, and fairs are back. For those involved in outdoor event production and promotion, it can’t come soon enough. Our focus can return to safety issues beyond Covid protection. Outdoor events have certain safety issues that indoor venues don’t have. The reason for this is […]
Festival Production: Leveraging the Fan Experience
Why are concert and festival production teams increasingly paying attention to the total fan experience? The answer is that a better fan experience means that the promoter or event organizer will see more: Brand Awareness Fan Loyalty Revenue Opportunities Any entertainment agency that provides concert or festival production services knows that one of the critical […]
Outdoor Music Festival or Concert Insurance: Part One
Planning an outdoor music festival or concert? An important item on your checklist, right after security and safety, should be insurance needs. Outdoor music festivals present additional concerns over indoor music concert venues. For one, they are directly exposed to weather events. They also may mean the set up of temporary structures such as stages, […]
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 […]
Festival Production Services Include “Growing It”
Just what festival production services are needed depends on each particular festival. The diversity of festivals and the background of those producing them vary greatly. Many festivals are long-standing events that have a great volunteer and/or paid organizing staff. Others are new with very little history or knowledgeable staff to carry out such an undertaking. […]
Event and Festival Production; 5 Tips for Hiring the Right Company
Managing festival production services can be overwhelming for many who are involved in the production of festivals. Writer and filmmaker, Siddharth Katragadda, once said that “the greatness of a culture can be found in its festivals”, and while it’s a simple and appealing quote, it’s also very true. Whether it is strictly a music festival, […]
Producing a Festival in Today’s World
These are incredibly challenging times for anyone producing a festival or any type of live music event. Not only do you need to deal with the many tasks normally involved with producing a music festival, but now you need to do it safely in a pandemic environment. All music events draw fans who want to […]
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 […]
Festival Production Pandemic Plan
TSE Entertainment seeks to help its clients with many facets of festival and concert production. As part of that effort, TSE has vetted sponsorship sales resources to help those involved in festival production find sponsor for their events. We also have been vetting sanitizing agents and equipment for our clients’ events. We see ourselves as […]
