Sentence examples for audience tour from inspiring English sources

Young artists who are looking for a record deal are often broke and desperate to get the chance to release a record, get their music to a wider audience, tour and make music full-time, without having to go on the dole.

By December 2009, like it or not, we'd had successes, commissions, new audiences, tours, with $1.3 million in the bank.

Since then it has thrived, with loyal audiences, tours and recordings.

On Tuesday, looking elegant in a white wide-brimmed hat and a piano-key scarf, Ms. Mansfield met her audience — er, tour group.

"Being an artist is kind of odd in that it's not like being a writer or being in a band where you can build a grass-roots audience and tour the country.

The trip — "a great, cultural experience centered around the new pope!" as Perillo's Web site puts it — includes a seat at the general audience, a tour of the Vatican Museums and a day trip to the cities of Assisi (the birthplace of St. Francis, for whom the pope took his name) and Orvieto.

The first part of this miniseries follows the usual formula: fledgling young band faces parental defiance and audience indifference; tours endlessly and amasses a growing fanbase; hears own single on radio (complete with requisite tour van freakout); gains international recognition; and ultimately falls into a quagmire of booze, drugs and Adam Ant's leftover groupies.

Chris Swanson, a founder of Secretly Canadian, said that although Mr. Molina did not reach a mainstream audience, he toured extensively enough and sold enough records — perhaps 20,000 to 25,000 a year — to make a living.

"One Night," fleetingly framed as a visit by Brice from the afterlife, bounds from her childhood in New Jersey to a vaudeville amateur night in Brooklyn, where her singing prompted a shower of coins from the audience, to tours in burlesque (when it meant satire, not stripping) and her discovery by Florenz Ziegfeld.

In recent years the British director Deborah Warner has brought audiences back to the Liberty, taking advantage of its crumbling aesthetic for her 1996 production of "The Waste Land," Fiona Shaw's performance of the T. S. Eliot poem, and for the recent "Angel Project," which offered audiences a tour of eerily quiet New York spaces.

The idea to run the song through the way-back machine came during a pre-tour rehearsal at which Frey bemoaned the fact that some audiences on tour would expect his familiar hits -- like "Heartache Tonight" or "Smuggler's Blues" -- even if they created a tonal whiplash on the heels of "After Hours" tracks such as "Sentimental Reasons" and "My Buddy".