Ladies, Gentlemen, & Non-binary fans: we have a SPONSOR!
Hi! For the past few months, OME has been getting to know a new arts- and community-friendly tech company: BRAVO.
BRAVO is a tipping app. But it’s more than a tipping app (these are all my words, btw). BRAVO works by proximity, so it’s not like Square Cash, PayPal or Venmo where you a) need some form of contact info to send money and b) where you can send money for anything, anytime. Which of course is nice… but with BRAVO you are giving money for the experience you are having RIGHT THEN. You are saying “Thanks for the music” or “Thanks for the play” or even “I bought a band T-shirt but want to say thanks EVEN HARDER!!”. Access to artists and trades folks using BRAVO is based on location- so you know you are tipping the correct artist and so you are really starting a patron-artist relationship via this app.
OME has wanted to try ‘pay what you can’ style shows for a while now. Our big show in January is well, big, so we will always have a fixed price on that, (also stay tuned because we are doing something NEW in Jan 2018) but using BRAVO and having their support will allow us to do smaller experiences that are exclusively ‘pay what you can’. Can’t pay this month? Cool! Want to pay us $20?? Also cool!! $100? Man, you are really cool. I mean, who knows, if this goes well, it will not only allow us to make more new music happen in Phoenix, it will allow more people to HEAR and experience new music. It would be a beautiful thing.
And for shows that are more affordable, like our $6 August 3rd show at The Trunk Space, you are now able to give a little more if you are able and want to help us out.
You can read about BRAVO’s community partners HERE- that includes us!
And please get to know BRAVO’s founding team. They are good people.
