A gig is a live performance (typically of music) before an audience. The performance may be by a single musician, sometimes then called a recital, or by a musical ensemble, such as an orchestra, a choir, or a musical band. Concerts are held in a wide variety and size of settings, from private houses and small nightclubs, dedicated concert halls, entertainment centres and parks to large multipurpose buildings, and even sports stadiums. Indoor concerts held in the largest venues are sometimes called "arena concerts" or "amphitheatre concerts". Regardless of the venue, musicians usually perform on a stage. Concerts often require live event support with professional audio
equipment. Before recorded music, concerts would provide the only
opportunity one would generally have to hear musicians play. Informal
names for a concert include "show" and "gig".
Festivals
Main article: Music festival
Concerts involving a greater number of artists, especially those that last for multiple days, are known as festivals.
Unlike other concerts, which typically remain in a single genre of
music or work of a particular artist, festivals often cover a broad
scope of music and arts. Due to their size, festivals are almost
exclusively held outdoors. New platforms for festivals are becoming
increasingly popular such as Jam Cruise which is a festival held on a cruise ship, as well as Mayan Holidaze which is a destination festival held in Tulum. A few examples of the hundreds of festivals include the Big Day Out, Coachella, Falls Festival, Glastonbury Festival, Newport Jazz Festival, Oxegen, Parachute Music Festival, Rock In Rio, Rockwave Festival, Salzburg Festival, Summer Sonic Festival, Woodstock Music and Art Festival, Soundwave Festival, and the Warped Tour.
For a more complete listing of festivals from around the world, see: List of music festivals.
Concert tour
Members of the Grateful Dead performed
at Red Rocks Amphitheater in Colorado on August 11, 1987.
A concert tour is a series of concerts by an artist or group of
artists in different cities or locations. Often times concert tours are
named, to differentiate different tours by the same artist and associate
a specific tour with a particular album or product (for example: Michael Jackson's Bad Tour).
Especially in the popular music world, such tours can become
large-scale enterprises that last for several months or even years, are
seen by hundreds of thousands or millions of people, and bring in
millions of dollars (or the equivalent) in ticket revenues.
Different segments of longer concert tours are known as "legs". The
different legs of a tour are denoted in different ways, dependent on the
artist and type of tour, but the most common means of separating legs
are dates (especially if there is a long break at some point), countries
and/or continents, or different opening acts. In the largest concert
tours it is becoming more common for different legs to employ separate
touring production crews and equipment, local to each geographical
region. Concert tours are often administered on the local level by
concert promoters or by performing arts presenters.
Revenue
While admission to some concerts is free, it is common practice to charge money for concerts by selling admission tickets.
Historically, concerts were the primary source of revenue for
musicians. Revenue from ticket sales typically goes to the performing
artists, producers, venue, organizers and the brokers. In the case of benefit concerts, a portion of profits will often go towards a charitable organization.
Additional revenue is also often raised through in-concert
advertising, from free local concerts for local sponsorships to
sponsorships from corporations during major tours 2009's "Vans' Warped Tour Presented by AT&T". Both Vans and AT&T would have paid significant amounts to have their company names included at the forefront in all marketing material for the Warped Tour.
Concessions and merchandise are also often sold during and after
concerts; often by the venue in the case of the former, and by the
performing band or artist in the case of the latter.
As of 2011, the highest grossing concert tour of all time is U2 Tour, with gross revenues of $736,137,344.The second highest grossing concert tour of all time is The Rolling Stones' A Bigger Bang Tour which earned approximately $558 million in between 2005 and 2007. The highest earning tour by a solo artist is the Sticky & Sweet Tour by pop superstar artist Madonna, which earned $408 million in 2008 and 2009.
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