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.
The European Jazz Network comprises 110 organisation (festivals, clubs and concert venues, independent promoters and national/local support organisations) in 31 European countries. Their mission is to promote the identity and diversity of creative music in Europe, to broaden awareness of this vital area of music as a cultural and educational force, to increase exchange of… Read more »
Booking practices in the cultural field have arisen as a research object during the last 15 years, being investigated for and through their peculiar situation at the intersection between economic and artistic fields. Bookers have to manage their way between a variety of tasks, partnerships and responsibilities conferring them a key role in the musical… Read more »
In this Live Style Europe radio show, we explain how live music venues and clubs are affected by Covid-19. Since March 2020, live music venues and clubs had to cancel or reschedule all their events, which is their core business and main source of income. In some countries, they were able to slowly reopen, however… Read more »