It's rather more a question of why we perform, I think. That is a question the audience has no say in, Lizzie. From the why comes the where, and when.
I perform because I enjoy the music, doing something new and in my way, not someone else's. The recording industry lives off war-horses which have to be done just-so, and that's the antithesis of music as I see it. So I'll never be rich as a result? Tough. I'm having fun. Someone's paying for the venue which I could never afford on my own (London's Southbank very often) and they don't get to say what I can and cannot do. I even get broadcast occasionally. So I'll never make a kiving from it. I make a living another way. Do you live to work, or work to live? If the latter, then do some living! There's too many who work to work.