Do you want to go to the Red Lodge Songwriter Festival for FREE? We offer a Rising Star Weekend and Saturday at the Festival Pass in return for five hours of work.

Meet new people, forge new friendships, and support music in our community by becoming part of the Red Lodge Songwriter Festival team.   A wide range of volunteer opportunities are available.

We are looking for smiling faces who can go with the flow in an ever-changing environment, take on any assignment—no matter the size—and whose middle name is Dependable. If this sounds like you, we would love to have you as a volunteer for the 8th Annual Red Lodge Songwriter Festival.

Our corps of volunteers work to support our fans, staff, sponsors, and songwriters to ensure everyone at the event has an exciting, fun, memorable, and safe experience. You could be doing anything from helping set up the many festival sites, staffing the box office, selling tickets, staffing doors at our venues, checking and selling wristbands, and/or selling merchandise.  

For those individuals who possess the above qualities, we will reward you with a wristband for all the Rising Star shows and a ticket for Saturday’s Hit Songwriter Showcase for a volunteer commitment of five hours over three days.

You’ll be an integral part of the event’s success. A portion of the festival’s proceeds go to music education in our public schools and colleges. In the past eight years more than $150,000 has been donated to fulfill our mission.

If you like to volunteer for this year’s festival, June 20-22, 2024, click here and add your name, the dates and times you can work on our  sign-up sheet.

Box Office Host

The box office is open from 12pm to 5 pm Thursday, Friday and Saturday during the festival. We need volunteers to assist in checking in pass & ticket holders, answering questions, selling tickets and merchandise. Shifts are in 2.5 hour blocks.

Venue Host

All the shows at the songwriter festivals are ticketed which means to come into the shows fans need proper credentials. This might include passes and/or wristbands. Volunteers are posted at each entrance/exit to be sure fans coming and going have the proper credentials to come in. They are also responsible for selling wristbands at the venue. Venue volunteers also work to keep conversations to a minimum and the atmosphere of a listening room are respected.

Set-Up & Logistics

Do you have time to set-up chairs, run errands, set stages, move sound equipment and/or anything else that need to be done during the festival. We need self-motivated people to help.

Songwriter Host Housing

Do you have a guest house, mother-in-law quarters or extra bedroom to house our Rising Stars during the Red Lodge Songwriter Festival? We need hosts to house our Rising Star Songwriters. Songwriters will arrive sometime on Wednesday before the festival and depart the Sunday after the festival. Host housing should include a private bedroom and bathroom if you are housing more than one songwriter a shared bathroom is fine. A private entrance is prefered however not required. .

Venue Manager

This is a key position during the festival. Venue managers coordinate with the ticketing volunteers, songwriters, sound technicians and venue staff to be sure everything is running per the schedule. They announce the songwriters, make any necessary announcements and close the show by thanking venue, songwriters and announcing the next show. The venue manager is in charge of the cash bag at the show and turning it in to Box Office or other designated person at the end of the day.

Transportation

Drivers are needed to shuttle our Nashville Hit Songwriters from their hotel/residence to the shows & airports.

If your interested in being a Songwriter Host, Venue Manager or Transportation Driver call Mike with questions at 406-690-5988 or email [email protected]