Support your local music scene! I mean like bars, cafes, clubs, outdoors, even restaurants can have local or regional groups playing in all kinds of styles and they're often pretty good. You can be feet away from the band and talk to them afterwards if you want, and the cost is minimal.
No, from the transcript it looks like they're talking about mid-sized venues (they give an example of a 400-person venue), I'm talking smaller than that.