{"id":138728,"date":"2025-04-13T15:13:57","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T15:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/13\/what-ive-learned-from-canadian-music-fans-on-my-cross-country-speaking-tour-national\/"},"modified":"2025-04-13T15:13:57","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T15:13:57","slug":"what-ive-realized-from-canadian-music-followers-on-my-cross-country-talking-tour-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/13\/what-ive-realized-from-canadian-music-followers-on-my-cross-country-talking-tour-national\/","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019ve realized from Canadian music followers on my cross-country talking tour – National"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I\u2019ve spent a bit of 2025 out on the street doing sold-out talking engagements, overlaying (thus far) Victoria and Nanaimo, B.C., to Ottawa. Fredericton, N.B., Halifax, Toronto and Whitby, Ont., are arising earlier than the tip of the month (solely Fredericton nonetheless has tickets<\/a>) and there\u2019s discuss of doing one thing in Quebec in additional factors east within the fall.<\/p>\n

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I name these talks \u201csalons,\u201d a possibility for like-minded music followers to assemble to debate what\u2019s on their thoughts in relation to the present state of music, the trade, radio, know-how and extra. I additionally discover them very helpful as a result of I spend most of my time in a soundproof room speaking to myself with completely no concept if something I do and say has any affect on the general public. Like I inform audiences, there\u2019s nothing like having a room filled with strangers inform you the reality about your work in actual time.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve carried out greater than 100 salons over the past 5 years, and I all the time discover it instructive to study what\u2019s on the minds of Canadian music followers. Here\u2019s what I\u2019ve realized thus far.<\/p>\n

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The worth of live performance tickets is just too excessive<\/strong><\/h2>\n

This is a subject that comes up virtually each single time. Why is it so laborious to get a ticket lately? Why do they value a lot? And how excessive will costs go? Canadians love their dwell music and so they\u2019re extraordinarily annoyed by the hoops they’ve to leap by way of and the ticket-buying bots they need to battle. Many consider that Ticketmaster<\/a> units the value of a ticket (it doesn’t; that\u2019s the only area of the artist) and hate the idea of dynamic pricing (one other resolution made solely by the artist). I\u2019m additionally stunned at how many individuals consider that Ticketmaster owns StubHub (it doesn’t, though Ticketmaster does interact in reselling tickets by itself platform).<\/p>\n

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How lengthy will Canadian audiences be prepared to pay greater and better costs for live performance tickets? If the individuals I talked to are any indication, they\u2019re already trying out, deciding to spend their after-tax leisure {dollars} on necessities relatively than enjoyable. If this sentiment spreads from my salons to the nation at massive, we might even see loads of non-sellouts this summer season, together with drastic last-minute drops in live performance ticket costs simply to fill the constructing.<\/p>\n

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Canadians nonetheless hearken to radio<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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