Booth Music at Shows
Sunday November 23, 2008
A discussion in the forum this week is about playing music in your booth at shows. If you are going to do this make sure it
is related to your craft and that you, in respect to your neighbors, do not play it continually throughout the entire event.
I remember a holiday show we attended where the promoters replayed "Holly Jolly Christmas" over and over again the entire
weekend! Talk about a nightmare. They apparently had one song on one CD and decided to make use of it. Shoppers and exhibitors
alike were moaning after the first few hours.
Comments
I know what you mean about moaning regarding music. I like music - I really do - in its proper place. I have done several shows that I have had to ask a close neighbor vendor to either turn it off or turn it down. When THEIR music interferes with MY customer discussions, it’s way too loud.
That’s my opinion and I’m sticking to it.
In the last month I’ve exhibited at two shows, both 4 days each, run by the same show organizer and at both shows they’ve had a live singer who had a sweet voice, but she only had a small repetoire that she sang over and over again and it was loud sometimes and did interfere …. got really, really tired of the whole thing and all the exhibitors were complainng.
You just can’t invade somebody else’s space, whether it’s physically or auditorally.
If you’re going to play music, keep it to the point where everyone else doesn’t have to listen to it. If you want to listen to the ball game, go ahead, just don’t be blasting it outside the booth. Keep it down.
Get a small radio or iPod, etc.
Attach the ear piece to it and your ear.
Listen to whatever you want, as loud as you want, whenever you want.
Please leave me and my customers out of your music.
Thank you