With the Survey, Live DMA presents the first Europe-wide quantitative study on live music venues and clubs. This project not only helps in having a better understanding in the European venues’ legal status, type of activities or number of workforce but also helps our members in collecting their own data at their regional or national level, the same way our members help us collect data for the European level.
Indeed, it is important that this data is made for the live music sector and by live music actors in order to ensure a relevant analysis of the numbers collected.
This article presents the various regional studies that our members have released, often in their own national languages. The studies only focus on the venues, clubs and festivals (economic data, activities, workforce…). Audience research is excluded from the list.
Freemuse is an independent international organisation advocating for and defending freedom of artistic expression. In 2020, they released the report on “Security, Creativity, Tolerance and their Co-Existence: the New European Agenda on Freedom of Artistic Expression”. This report, after clearly defining what is “freedom of expression” and the crucial social and political roles of artists,… Read more »
We are pleased to share the official inventory of Live DMA, stating the numer of venues, clubs and festivals part of our network! This official document aims to show the evolution of our European network. The live music sector in Europe is growing fast and new national networks are created in order to support the… Read more »
Yourope, association gathering nearly 100 festivals and live music events in 26 European countries, published the results of their 2018 members survey. This survey investigates the general setting of their member festivals, gives insight on the events’ audiences, explores their European dimension, and analyses the structural and economic settings of their member festivals. Key facts… Read more »