Thinking about live music in Sevilla.
Dunno what it’s like where you live but almost nobody ever comes here! 
Okay, ever two years they have the Bienal de Flamenco. But that’s kind of my point … that’s pretty much all you ever get to see here. Flamenco and more flamenco.
So I was very excited to see that Silvio Rodriguez is coming here in September. Nog and I are going to check out getting tickets this evening.
What’s the live music scene like where you are?
casa azahar 
Pretty much everything you can think of – bar flamenco! 😉
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Sorry, should have told people where I live, London UK
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What live music? I live in Lebanon, MO. There is no live music unless you count the high school marching band at football games. Sucks.
Up at Lake of the Ozarks, there is a very lively blues community, with some pretty good groups. Its a long drive, though – 40 miles (64km)
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Quite a lot actually, even though this is a rather small city, appr. 100 000 inhabitants. The Uni,the fact that it´s the biggest city here in the North and a very active “culrural life” make the music scene very diverse.
We have the Opera and the Symphony Orchestra. A very lively choir tradition. An amateur symphony orchestra. A Youth symphony orchestra as well as a lot of smaller ensembles at the School of Culture, which is part of the City´s public schools.
There are also a lot of pop/rock/metal/hip-hop bands here, some even known outside the city 🙂
Clubs and conserts as well as festivals are plenty. Tonight dp and one of her friends are at a rock concert.
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No live music scene where I live.
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I’m lucky enough to live in Manchester – we have perhaps the best live music scene in the UK. 3 professional orchestras, more no.1 singles produced than any other city in the UK except Liverpool (yay :-D), three major gig venues, countless numbers of smaller ones and every type of music under the sun.
Lord help me when I go to Exeter next month
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There’s a reasonable live music scene here in Canberra; mostly small local acts of course, but there’s quite a lot of them. However, most national and overseas acts tend not to come here. The local street mag has a column called ‘Bypass’, to let people know who’s playing in Sydney. It’s only a few hours down the road, after all.
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Don’t know if I should chime in on this one: We get *everybody* here, in any style. I live 6 miles due north of downtown Los Angeles.
Saw that Ted Nugent will be playing the House of Blues. I used to see him in Detroit clubs, back when he were a young-un. Well, so was I, for that matter.
Detroit was also great for live music, way back when.
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Well, we’ve got a few big stadium typle places that get big well-known bands and charge a fortune for tickets, and then we have a lot of nice local venues in the city, places you can get into for $5-$10 and see local acts- some kinda famous, some not.
I’m a little biased in regards to my favorite live acts. 😉
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When I lived in Toronto I guess I got a bit spoilt with having all sorts of live music available. Not only in big stadium and concert hall venues, but also in smaller theatres and clubs as well as there being a rather vibrant live bar music scene.
Used to be that you could spend $5 admission to get into a bar featuring kd lang and the Reclines or The Neville Brothers … *weeps with the memory of it*
And it seems very unfair that musicians or groups I’d love to see end up going to Valencia or – say what? – Zaragoza! (why Zaragoza???) yet never end up in Sevilla.
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All this reminiscing made me remember the time I saw Buckwheat Zydeco perform at a club in Toronto … so fished out my old Buckwheat cassette and actually made Nog dance around the living room with me for awhile. 🙂
At this same club I also saw JJ Cale, so fucking shit-faced he could barely play (we went to the second show) but he was still soooo amazing.
$10 admission…
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After having had to miss Vicente Amigo performing at the Bienal de Flamenco I was surprised to see a huge poster this morning while Nog and I were walking down the street promoting a show by Joaquín Cortés in the Maestranza bullring on Friday (tomorrow). I had no idea this was going on. And it didn’t seem to be part of the Bienal.
So, hoping against hope I went to check out ticket availability and … fuck me! The cheapest (obstructed) seats were 30€ and the most expensive were 120€.
And so I had to tear myself away from the ticket office, but not before buying two tickets (7€ each) for the last night of a special exhibition in the Alcazar (Royal Palace) gardens. The Alcazar is not usually open at night, but when it is it is totally magical and gorgeous. So we’ll be doing that on Saturday.
And tomorrow I won’t think at all about missing Joaquín Cortés, not even a little bit, nope not me . . . *wah!*
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