Venues

We know running a venue is a challenge; we can help.

Whether you’re a music venue or music is secondary to your primary business — perhaps you’re a coffee shop, a commercial building, or an airport — music can invigorate any space. However, booking performances means you need to keep a lot of balls in the air: finding and communicating with artists, booking, promoting, managing contracts, payments, and more.

Let Stagehand take care of the details so that you can take care of your business.

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Discover new artists

An open and growing database of talented artists means you are never short of talent.

Streamline bookings

Manage the end to end process of artist intake, contracts, and scheduling to provide structure in a chaotic process.

Simplify operations

Communicate with your team, automatically update your website, manage cancellations and changes to keep everything running smoothly.

Manage your data

Downloadable reports that include dates, times, artists and payments for data at your fingertips.

How it works

Create a venue profile
Get started in minutes with step-by-step instructions on building your profile that tells artists about your venue.

Set up a program
Whether it’s one performance or a series, enter details about your program for artists to discover. Artists apply for dates that match their availability making it easy for you to fill your openings.

Book gigs
Review artist applications, profile & history to decide what is right for your venue. Artists provide their availability to expedite the booking process. You are always in control of who gets booked and when. Confirmed bookings can be configured to automatically update your website.

Ongoing management
Track all your activity in one central place, spot conflicts and double bookings, manage cancellations. Multiple admins can collaborate on bookings duties, centralized messaging keeps everyone informed. No more searching through emails, texts and social media messages.

Ticketing
Link your favourite ticketing platform to your events.

Manage payments and tips
Pay artists directly in Stagehand – no additional paperwork. We can even automate tipping with a universal QR code that directs tips to the artist on stage.

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Stagehand is a manifestation of community. It’s a marketplace that exists in a whole form.

– Keith Dundas, Sunnyside Summer Nights

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We see developing, supporting and providing performance opportunities to local musicians as integral in creating vibrant, community spaces in Downtown Calgary.

– Mark Garner, Executive Director, Downtown Calgary

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