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How live music can compete in a new era

Written by Derek Manns, Co-founder & CEO, Stagehand Recently I have been listening to Dan Carlin’s podcast, Hardcore History. In his series about World War I, Carlin discusses how, for the first time, technology was a major factor in war. In 1914, the...

Reimagining Live Music

We have all heard the story about someone whose busy and stressful life is abruptly interrupted by a heart attack. They wake up the next day in the hospital and realize that they need to change. Unfortunately, it took a catastrophic event to make them see that they...

Road Trip Tunes Playlist

Listen on Spotify Listen on Apple Music Summer vacations look a little bit different this year. Instead of jet-setting to faraway locales and packing our passports, we’re settling in for staycations, road tripping to nearby towns, and touring our own cities. There’s...

Backstage with Bob Chartier

Bob Chartier is known for many things. He’s a talented musician, a creative singer/songwriter, an inspiring mentor to up-and-coming musicians, and the “Mayor” of Calgary’s Music Mile—but his musical journey has been anything but ordinary.  Listen to the podcast: Bob...

Banding Together for Calgary’s Live Music Venues

With a history of openly welcoming musicians of all genres from near and far to perform on its iconic Casat Deck stage, the Ironwood Stage & Grill has earned a reputation as the heart of Calgary’s live music scene. Typically, the Ironwood presents live music seven nights a week and more than 400 shows a year—but this year is looking a little different.

Announcing Stagehand!

Hello friends, if you are reading this you will likely have noticed that we have changed our name to Stagehand and our new web address is www.stagehand.app.   The new name and branding is intended to be more representative of the people that we serve and the value...

Village Voices! Week 4 – Meet the Artists

Howdy folks! We have hit the back half for our Village Voices! songwriter series that has really been exceeding our expectations. The amount of home grown talent in the City of Calgary is quite staggering and this week will keep pace no doubt. Check it out!...

Village Voices! Week 2 – Meet the artists

Howdy Lumin faithful. Well week one of V.V was a success and we want to thank Todd Stewart, Ann Taylor and Alex Ginella for all of their songs and talent to kick things off here. We're doing this again with more talented folks on Week 2! Remember this is a free show...

Village Voices! Week 1- Meet the Artists

   It's here! With our partners Village Brewery and the Ironwood Stage & Grill we are presenting a songwriters in the round series every Wednesday from 5-7 pm beginning May 16th to June 20th. We have chosen 6 Alberta veteran songwriters/performers to...

Welcome to Lumin!

Hello Musician and Venue friends, welcome to Lumin!  My name is Derek and I am the founder of Lumin and as this is my first official blog post I should probably tell you a little about who we are, what we are doing and why.  We are a small technology startup based in...