The best way to show your audience gratitude is to put on a great show.
Often times artists go on and on in between each song about how thankful they are to the audience for being there, for buying a ticket, for listening to the music, for sticking with them from year to year…and then proceed to put on a lackluster, underwhelming show.
If you never said “thank you” one time during your show but put on a GREAT show, your audience wouldn’t think a thing about it. And if they did think a thing about it, they would have just experienced how much you care, as opposed to simply hearing how much you care.
The final spoken words at a show are too often some version of “Thank you SOOOO much, it means the WORLD to us”.
That’s great. And if you’ve decided that’s how you’d like to end your show, it can be an excellent way. But it’s not required. Or even needed.
What’s needed is for you to put on a great show.
That’s the real thank you.
p.s. I wrote this on Friday and meant to send it out but I got distracted. So if you needed this post on Friday, I’m sorry. I hope it’s not too late.
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