>>4443373I dont know about concerts but I know about college sports.
If its smaller/informal you just walk in. When I shot soccer for my community college i just walked on the pitch and took pics.
at uni i needed to be affiliated with the team to get on the pitch. i found the soccer coach's email on the staff directory and sent an email asking him to consider me along with some sample pics from my CC's soccer team ~every 4 days. i also called a few times (straight to voicemail). after 2 weeks of email and calling I got an email from a communication/media team person and they let me on.
basically find the right person to bug and keep bugging them. technically it was the wrong person, but they were close enough to forward my email so
that's my story atleast