Attend a music event within your first 90 days. Whatever your jam – jazz, hip hop, bluegrass, symphony, opera, pop, polka, electronica – you’ll find it in the Triangle. Add an event to your Raleigh Onboarding Planner. Since you love music, connect quickly with a local musician/group, concert, festival, venue and/or shop to start to feel at home here.
Purchase one piece of merch. It’s not easy to make a living in music and what a sad world it would be without it! So if you’re at a local concert or event and there’s merch available please buy something to show support. We’re not saying Taylor Swift needs your money, but local bands and organizations like the NC Symphony do. Even if you can only afford a laptop sticker it may start a conversation that leads to a new friend here. Follow and/or support local musicians and music organizations and you’ll feel a strange sense of pride when they succeed.
Volunteer at a music festival or venue if you can. We can feel our introverts cringing at this suggestion but hear us out. You love music. Most of the music festivals and venues in Raleigh welcome volunteers. It’s a great way to meet like-minded people in your new city and everyone is focused on the job to be done so there’s not that awkward standing-around-making-small talk part.
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