Concert/Tour Scheduling Pet Peeve

In the 90s, 00s, and even 10s Baltimore was often a given stop on musical artist’s tours. Usually would be mid-week as opposed to a weekend, since they seemed to try to hit Philly and/or DC on the weekends. Totally fine with that

However the last few years, especially for medium popularity artists, it has become apparent that Baltimore is an afterthought that they might tack onto the very end of the tour, if not skip altogether

For groups that I really love sometimes I will see them twice, but more than once I’ve noticed that the DC show early in the tour was very energetic and amazing but then the Baltimore show like 6 months (and many other performances later) can feel tired or lackluster

I just find it a little annoying that I often seem to travel to DC to see a concert on the initial leg of the tour, and then find out a few months later that they’ll soon be playing within walking distance of my house.

It’s like a self-fulfilling prophecy… they put Baltimore as a second or third tier location and so Baltimore fans go to DC or Philly shows instead of adding to the Baltimore show attendance numbers

Current artist that this happening with is Deltron 3030 but also happened with Yo La Tengo, strfckr, and all sorts of other artists.

Why did Baltimore become unpopular with tour organizers and how do we get them to start working Baltimore into their main scheduling again 😜