here are some ideas I'm kicking around:

1) MUSIC FESTIVALS
They're cool, but pricey. It can cost upward to $500 to attend all 4 days of Merlefest with reserved seats and parking. Way more than that if you pay for platinum tickets that include back stage passes and other perks.

But most of these festivals need large numbers of volunteers. If you commit 3 hours of volunteered work time, you get free admission for the rest of the day. Depending on what work you do, it might include back stage access and opportunity to meet performers.

The internet makes it easy to find music festivals all over the country, contact the administrators well in advance, and get on the volunteer list. If travel isn't a problem you could literally attend every major music festival for free (excluding travel costs)

Merlefest offers low cost camping for volunteers, I would guess other festivals do something similar.


If you google the phrase MUSIC FESTIVAL, you'll probably see that most of 2015's festivals are just now gearing up and accepting applications for volunteers

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