Rodin wrote:Aren't we missing the point here?
An artist like Leonard is not going to lose money by e.g. playing a gig in Sofia or Istanbul. He will make less money than night after night in a richer country, but will enrich the lives of some poorer people.
Perhaps naive, but why can't the gigs in the richer nations 'subsidise' other gigs ?
Balls to exchange rates and economists, we've all seen where that has taken the world.
Let the artists fight back......
I agree with the idea of this.....but,the problem here is when an artist plays a less well off country they either charge so much that very few from the country in question can afford it and most tickets are bought by people from neighbouring better off countries,or else they charge a more reasonable price and people from better off countries go there because their getting such a bargin,either way the better off will take advantage
The Stones played China a few years ago after 30 years of trying to convince the authorites to allow them to,they charged the equivalent of months wages for your average Chinese worker!! the audience was apparently filled with Brittish ex-pats and tourists and businessmen and about 4 Chinamen
.......not that Leonard would charge that much,but thats just the way a lot of these gigs work,i know people who travelled from here(Ireland)and the U.K to Croatia to a festival there last year because it was so cheap,it was cheaper to go all the way there than to go to Dublin for a festival......i know this is depressing for some to read but this is how it works nowadays
.. for him to travel to Germany or even more expensive than it is of course to visit the concert in our country ... again fell like a iron curtain dividing Europe and the world. . Not ideologically, but economically .. and again, we probably found themselves among the "poorer" 
I believe that this would be, for example in neighboring Slovakia or the Balkans - Croatia, Slovenia and the like find enough people who would be willing to really good concert zaplatit.A also travel to the Balkans in the summer thousands of people on holiday, and certainly they would be willing to diversify, you leave .. 
... and it will be gift to all people in this part of Europe, who are still regarded as something less than people from more countries to the west. Thank you for this ... 
... and Leonardo means 
Thank you .. but I can not offer the same in the case of Prague ... my money would be sufficient for you to purchase tickets for a good dinner and a couple glasses 
