local talent
Area's own artists
Local talent refers to performers, artists, or skilled individuals from a particular area, as opposed to those brought in from elsewhere: The festival featured local talent alongside national acts.
The phrase sometimes carries a slightly dismissive tone, implying amateur or provincial quality.
In casual or humorous use, local talent can mean the romantically available people in a given place: Let's check out the local talent at the bar.
- homegrownRaised on one's property
- small townModest rural settlement
- grassrootsCommon people as political base
- communityCollective of connected people
- community theaterLocal nonprofessional stage productions
hometown · emerging · up and coming · undiscovered · diamond in the rough · amateur · open call · rising · regional · neighborhood · word of mouth · showcase · open mic · audition · battle of the bands · scout · discovery · venue
- Pop RadioDJs, playlists, airplay, spins, Billboard Hot 100
- business location factorsnatural resources, cheap labor, tax breaks, skilled workforce, infrastructure
- indie theaterfringe theater, fringe, black box, black box theater, experimental theater
- comedycomedy, jokes, humor, puns, sarcasm
- wrestlingbody slam, wrestlers, takedown, pinfall, suplex
- openersbottle opener, can opener, corkscrew, church key, churchkey
local talenthousehold names
Widely recognized public figures
superstar · star power · headliner · superstars · headliners
local, talent, locale, locality, locally, localize, localization, localized, localizing