Boston Hassle presents...
Boston Hassle Fest 2013
Clean out that wax and open your ears to something new!
Welcome to the Thunderdome!
Boston Hassle is a popular music & arts organization and events guide based in Boston, MA. Entirely volunteer-run and independent, we music obsessives work tirelessly to foster an innovative and interconnected arts community. In a culmination of all of our efforts, each November we throw our largest and most exciting event, BOSTON HASSLE FEST.
Hassle Fest is the crown jewel of our year - a 2-day musical extravaganza that draws together over 40 of the most thrilling and unusual acts from all around the country and beyond, as well as Boston’s own backyard. With seminal bands like Lightning Bolt, Black Dice and Japanther sharing the stage with fantastic emerging artists like Speedy Ortiz, Guerilla Toss, and Street Gnar, this year promises to be the best yet!
Boston Hassle Fest is a different kind of music experience...
As a 100% independent, volunteer-run organization, we operate on a shoe-string budget, and rely on passionate supporters like YOU to make Hassle Fest a reality.
Our mission is, and always has been, to provide our audience with an exciting but also affordable all-ages art-filled experience, and to ensure that hard-working musicians are duly rewarded for their time and effort.
By contributing to this campaign and sharing it with others, YOU show your commitment to our core principle of offering affordable shows featuring engaging musical artists that are fairly compensated.
Together with your support, we will not only succeed in throwing an amazing festival, but more importantly, we will demonstrate to Boston and the wider public that there is a viable alternative, non-profit model for supporting music and the arts, one that avoids the pitfalls of alcohol-driven profits and ‘safe,’ industry-sponsored musical acts.
Show the world a different way to come together and enjoy music - stand with the Boston Hassle!
The Nitty-Gritty
Hassle Fest will cost about $13,000 in total to put on - all of which will go directly to paying every musical act that plays (including locals), paying fest related visual artists, and paying the fees to rent the venues that house the fest.
Boston Hassle Fest has only three sources of revenue: ticket sales, business sponsors and yes, this crowd-source fundraiser. In order to keep our tickets at an affordable $15/day and guarantee fair compensation for our traveling musicians, we are looking to raise at least $5,400 through this online campaign.
In return for your gracious support, we offer more than just kind words of thanks. We have many exciting, exclusive rewards that we’re sure will pique your interest. See our campaign video and the far-right column to discover all the juicy details.
The Boston Hassle is a budding volunteer-run non-profit organization, and therefore no individual in our organization directly receives money for their efforts. Any surplus revenue (if there is any) goes immediately back into the organization, and will help fund future projects - like printing our free music and arts paper The Boston Compass each month!
About BOSTON HASSLE
Boston Hassle is a multifaceted, entirely volunteer-run organization that strives to foster an innovative, compelling and inter-connected music, arts and film community in the Greater Boston area. With a nationally popular website BostonHassle.com, a widely distributed free monthly newspaper The Boston Compass, and a prolific not-for-profit concert production team, Boston Hassle serves as a reliable and innovative multi-platform resource for exciting events in the city and a means for local artists to connect with a wider audience.
Boston Hassle strives to bring YOU the best and freshest our beautiful city has to offer - every day.
By helping us fund this fest you are showing your support for the Boston Hassle volunteer-run organization that books, promotes, and organizes this festival and over 100 other shows each year in the Boston area. But more importantly, you are supporting independent music and arts in your community. That’s something you should feel really good about.
We're doing our best to help make this city an arts friendly community each and every day. Won't you help us rock?