Holy Fool
Holy Fool is a Colorado-based nonprofit. Our mission is to provide encouragement, peer coaching, and strategizing help to Colorado musicians who are not yet financially independent. We lend resources, equipment, and micro grants to musicians in need.
Holy Fool
We are a community of musicians and patrons committed to holding all things in common. We are building an alternative economy of generosity where we help working musicians carve out a financially sustainable lifestyle of creation.
We support working musicians
We offer coaching, professional development, and an open, non-competitive network of mutual aid. We are learning to share all things, from borrowed amps to best practices.
moving from competition into community
The norm in the music industry is a culture of competition. But we are creating a more beautiful way of life together, where we give freely to each other, trusting that there will be enough for all.
Our programs
House shows
Holy Fool puts on house shows (and shows in coffee shops and other non-traditional venues) in Denver, Boulder, Fort Collins, and Colorado Springs, featuring two to three local artists. House shows are an ideal way to shrink the distance between artists and fans in a way that creates community and opportunities for mutual commitment.
A Dinner Club for Working Musicians
We host dinner parties for small groups of working musicians. Dinner parties are an opportunity for community-building and peer-coaching. We connect relationally and center our time around the question: "What barriers are holding you back from a sustainable lifestyle of music creation?" Through shared resources and relationships, we help remove or minimize those barriers.
Micro-grants
We share a pool of money, funded by our community of donors and patrons, that can be given out as micro-grants to working musicians as needed.
Holy Fool Podcast
On the Holy Fool Podcast, we interview bands, songwriters, patrons, and others doing redemptive work in their music scenes. You can listen on Apple, Spotify, or watch on YouTube.
