FRANK FANELLI

Tour Manager, Merchandise Manager,

Lighting Designer, VIP Coordinator

Co-Founder of NOMAD Fundraiser

Years Touring:

14

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Acts Worked For:

Black Veil Brides, Pennywise, JID, Emmure, Bam Margera, Earthgang, Hatebreed, Andy Black, We The Kings, Yelawolf, CKY

Story:

As a High School drop out, I started touring as a musician singing for 'The World We Knew' from 2004-2013. Briefly booked tours as a booking agent to pay bills after the band broke up, only to realize how clique filled, and mentally draining it was, so I decided to pin my full attention on being apart of the road crew from there on out.

Tatiana

"Tater"

Danielle

Special Ops, Production/VIP Coordinator,

Merchandise Manager, Production Assistant 

Co-Founder of NOMAD Fundraiser

Years touring: 

6 Years 

Acts Worked For: 

Vans Warped Tour, Disney on Ice, Warrior Dash, Troika Entertainment, Mills Entertainment, The Protomen

Story:

I graduated from Full Sail University with a Bachelor's Degree in Entertainment Business. Ever since then I've married my love of entertainment, hard work ethic, and organizational skills into freelancing for various festivals, bands, and live events throughout the country. From arenas to local rock venues - I'm always ready to work and play!

Travis Wade

Tour Manager & Front of House Engineer

Years touring:

9

Acts Worked For:

Dance Gavin Dance, CKY, Light the Torch, Suicidal Tendencies, I See Stars, Crown the Empire, Veil of Maya, 

Story:

I have always had a long for live shows my entire life. When I first started my college career I also got a job at my local venue pushing cases. After doing that for a while I started bugging up-and-coming acts to take me on tour with them as their front of house engineer just to go. Everything progressed super fast, and before I knew it I was on the road full time and my career shifted into tour management well. Now I am fortunate enough to make this my full-time career and provide for my family mixing bands and running shows. 

Alyssa Wisser

Merchandise Manager, Tour Manager, Driver, Marketer

Years Touring:

8

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Acts Worked For:

CAT Clothing, The Floozies, SunSquabi, aerie by American Eagle, truth, High School Nation, Beebs

Story:

In 2012, I volunteered for a clothing company on Warped Tour at a local date so I could see a favorite band. I was working in retail at the time so I used my selling abilities and by the end of the day, I was offered a job for the rest of the tour. I was hesitant at first considering it was my third concert ever but I'm so happy I took the leap and did it. Since then, I've worked for various bands, brands, and nonprofits. While I've held a couple of different positions on the road, the Merchandise Manager will always be my favorite.

Photo Credit: Justin Bauer

Blake Kunkel

Merchandise Manager, VIP Coordinator, Designer

Years Touring:

9

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Acts Worked For:

Dance Gavin Dance,  Light The Torch, Tilian, Veil Of Maya, Too Close To Touch, I The mighty, Lions lions, +more

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Story:

After playing in bands most of my young adult life, I was approached about doing merchandising for a clothing company since I handled all my bands merchandise stuff between selling and designing.  Since that, I went from doing Merch for multiple clothing companies to bands and even Tour managed a couple tours.  I found a home on tour and with like minded people and have made it not only my passion but my full time job.

Olivia Sharp

Merchandiser, VIP Coordinator, Personal Assistant, Festival Staff, A/V Tech

Years Touring:

7

Acts Worked For:

Set it Off, Starset, Five Finger Death Punch, Slim Jim Phantom & Jennie Vee, Nightwish, Xandria, Kobra and the Lotus, Fearless Records on Warped Tour, Coachella, Austin City Limits, SXSW, DigiTour 

Story:

Since a young girl that tended to not be musically inclined, I’ve always wanted to work as crew to touring bands and at music festivals. My dream was for selfish reasons in the beginning, but I soon learned that I thrive in fast-paced environments where I’m able to serve fans and artists by making their event experience easy and great. 

Jon Klutcharits

Production Manager, Stage Manager, Monitor Engineer, Playback Technician, Guitar Tech, Drum Tech

Years Touring:

5

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Acts Worked For:

Black Veil Brides, PVRIS, Andy Black, Juliet Simms, Set It Off, The Interrupters, Vans Warped Tour

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Story:

I started professionally in the music industry 5 years ago when I graduated from college. I got the opportunity of a lifetime to go out on the Vans Warped Tour and my life hasn’t been the same since. I’ve spent the past few years in full force on the road and I wouldn’t change it for the world.

Aaron Berkshire

Content Creator

Years Touring:

2 

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Acts Worked For:

Black Veil Brides, Of Mice & Men, Slaves, Chelsea Grin, Palaye Royale, The Used, Sum 41

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Story:

Homeschooled Drummer that fell into metal/rock bands from 2010 - 2017 

Loving the Music Industry doing everything I could to learn and mature, and when I met my wife I fell in love with Photography and Concert Content Creating, it has been a dream come true the whole ride. So grateful to be doing this! 

Jesse Butts

Merchandise Manager

Years Touring:

9

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Acts Worked For:

Black veil brides, andy black, Bishop Briggs, eagles of death metal, Asking Alexandria, Jeffree Star, the casualties, Zakk Wylde, Anderson. Paak, Alison Krauss, the impractical jokers, drake bell, Brant Bjork, PJ Masks, Baby Shark

Story:

I worked in the restaurant industry since I was 16. Everything from busboy to assistant GM. At 24 I couldn’t do it anymore and rather than show up to my morning shift I packed my car and went to Florida to clear my head a bit. Shortly after my best friend got a job w/ black veil brides. That job seemed like a dream, to just travel the states and be at a show every night. For the next tour, they were gonna need an extra hand and I was willing to do whatever for any kind of pay to get in the business. Knowing I wasn’t gonna make any money I pawned off all my DVDs and various other belongings to have extra money for the next few months. After a few tours that year with them I ended up becoming their merch guy. 9 years later I still work for BvB and for 4 merch companies, Bandmerch, Bravado, Warner Brothers and Kill the 8. 

Andrew Mena

Tour Manager & Driver

Years Touring:

8 years

Acts Worked For:

Fit For A King, The Plot In You, Crystal Lake, Emmure, Havok, Volumes, Oceans Ate Alaska, Scary Kids Scaring Kids, Slaves

Story:

I started out as a touring musician in 2011. I learned how to be a tour manager while being in the band. After the band was done, I mainly focused on tour managing for a while then things changed when I started taking over driving gigs. I do enjoy it more actually, seeing the country, being able to travel, being apart of the road crew.

Rocky Rodrigues

Merch Manager, VIP Assistant/Coordinator, Assistant Tour Manager

Years Touring:

5 years 

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Acts Worked For:

Unwritten Law, As It Is, Exhorder, Cherry Pools, Hail the Sun, I Prevail, Attila, and The White Noise 

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Story:

I shaped and planned my entire life around going to shows and the second I got my license I was on road trips to go see shows every. single. weekend. My natural affinity for this industry started young, watching endless music docs and MTV-I always knew my purpose belonged in that world. Through connecting with touring members already on the road, I got my first offer to do merch halfway through college. I chose to continue my education and finished my Social Psychology degree while on the road touring all over the U.S. and Australia. With a degree now in my back pocket, I continue this beloved life of a nomad on the road as a merch manager. I’m married to this industry and aspire to do as many rolls as I can within it until I’m gray and my body is old.

Erica Turer

Merchandise Manager & Assistant Tour Manager

Years Touring:

5 years 

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Acts Worked For:

Silversun Pickups, Postmodern Jukebox, Jonathan Wilson, New Year's Day, Equal Vision Records, Dawes, Lucius, Issues, Hot Chip

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Story:

Growing up heavily surrounded by music I knew that's where I wanted my career to be focused. I attended Butler University for a degree in Recording Industry Studies where I had multiple internships with different record labels. Shortly after graduation, I got hired on as the marketing coordinator for a local venue called Bogart's. After 4 years of working there, I knew I needed to get out of the office world and left that role looking for work on the road. I started handling merchandise for Silversun Pickups shortly after, and the ball kept rolling from there and I never looked back. 

Gino Scarim

Tour Manager, Assistant Tour Manager, Front of House Engineer, Monitor Engineer, Artist Manager, Co-Founder with Scarim Management,  Owner DuckPhone Records, Co-Founder Lakeside System Productions 

Years Touring:

5 years 

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Acts Worked For:

Dance Gavin Dance, Plain White T's, The Amity Affliction,  Asking Alexandria, Every Time I Die, Blessthefall, Chelsea Grin, Eluveitie,  The Smoking Popes, Sohn, The Invisible

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Story:

I've worked full time in the music industry since 2004 when I was the house engineer at the Clearwater Theater in West Dundee, IL. A year later I started full time as the monitor engineer at the Metro in Chicago. It's there where I sharpened my skills and started networking. 2009 I excepted my first tour with the Plain White Ts ad their monitor engineer and I have been touring full time ever since.  I've been very lucky touring the world working with amazingly talented bands.

In 1999 I started Duckphone Records, a small indie label out of the NW suburbs of Chicago. Working with many up and coming bands in many different genres. DPR still has an exciting roster today!

In 2016 I started Scarim Management with My Cousin Jeremiah Scarim. We Manage over 20 artists and have a roster of very talented managers that all come from touring backgrounds. In 2019 I started Lakeside System Productions with Ben Gordan from the Metro in Chicago. We rent and install sound Systems for Music venues and events.

Jessica Hill

Tour manager & Stage Manager

Years Touring:

15 years 

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Acts Worked For:

In This Moment, Dimebash, Ride for Dime, Dimebag Hardware, New Years Day, George Lynch, Kerry King, Head, God Forbid, Egypt Central, Guilt By Association

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Story:

I grew up around the live music industry and knew from a young age that I wanted to go on tour. I went on my first tour at 18 as a guitar tech. After that, there was only one career path for me. I love every minute of the organized chaos my life has become over the last 15 years of touring!

Nadia Guardado

Tour Manager, Personal Assistant, Merchandise Manager

Years Touring:

14 years 

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Acts Worked For:

Megadeth, Steel Panther, Shiprocked, Lights All Night, Straight Line Stitch, 12 Stones, Buckcherry, Atreyu, Letters From The Fire, Fear Factory, SOJA, Nonpoint, many more

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Story:

I started out going to concerts back home I’m Hollywood, CA at the age of 12. I landed my first tour at age 17. I’ve worked my way up from a merchandise manager to a production assistant, tour manager and currently as an executive assistant to the CEO of 900 Management. 

Aside from my love for music and the life I chose to live as a crew member, I tour for my kids. It’s a way to provide for them. Being able to travel the world and see countries I would have only dreamed of seeing when I was a child is a plus.

Scott Roberts

Guitar Tech, Stage Manager, Drum Tech, Monitors

Years Touring:

15 years 

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Acts Worked For:

Queensryche, Super Joint Ritual, Nevermore, Moonspell, Saliva, Drowning Pool, MTF, Katatonia, Rob Halford, and many others

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Story:

I’ve always been on tour since I was 19 and I’m 45 now. It’s always on tour and it’s been my dream to tour and see the world, which I have many times over and it has always taken care of my family, but this virus has taken away so much from us and the fans.

Liz Flynn

Merchandise Manager, Tour Manager, Assistant Tour Manager, VIP Coordinator, Production Assistant

Years Touring:

2 years 

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Acts Worked For:

Hope for the Day, Parcels, Roam, Jo Dee Messina, Sabaton, Easton Corbin, and Walker Hayes

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Story:

I first got my start in music by working in Mental Health. I got my first tour in 2018 with a non-profit called Hope For The Day and quickly transitioned into music and have had multiple positions on the road, mainly merchandise manager. Touring is my dream job and something I never thought was possible but I’m lucky enough to have made it my full-time career.

Caleb Arnaud

Content Creator

Years Touring:

2 years 

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Acts Worked For:

As I Lay Dying, Chelsea Grin, Born of Osiris, Bad Omens, Crystal Lake, Kingdom of Giants, Make Them Suffer, Carnifex, Unearth

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Story:

I grew up being in local bands through high school and college. A few years ago I picked photography and that became my entire life. Portrait and wedding work turned into touring at the end of 2018, and that turned into my full-time commitment. Being able to merge my passions of photography and live music has been such an amazing experience!

Ryan Warrell

Guitar Tech & Stage Manger

Years Touring:

11 years 

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Acts Worked For:

The Hu, Of Mice & Men, Set It Off, Powerman 5000, Moose Blood, Strung Out, Dance Gavin Dance. 

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Story:

I started off as a musician touring for many years after my band was no longer touring I took to the other side of things and started off as a bandwagon driver and moved my way over to guitar teching for the last 5yrs of my touring career. 

Brie McKay

 Sponsorship/Activation Manager,

VIP Coordinator, MC, Merchandise Manager

Years Touring:

7 years 

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Acts Worked For:

Coachella, Vans Warped Tour, Sixthman Cruises, Live Nation, Lane One, Street League Skateboarding, etc etc etc :)

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Story:

Brie McKay is a Jane of all trades, a human Swiss Army knife. Growing loving pop and emo, she gravitated towards live music and events. Sponsorship, VIP, MCing, Merch, Activities and more... Her festival jobs have her traveling the world.  She’s spent 117 days at sea helping run 26 music festivals on cruise ships, spent 3 summers on a rock n roll tour bus working Van’s Warped Tour (and was voted warped tour’s punk rock prom queen). Brie has managed Sephora and NYX’s sponsorship activations at Coachella the past 3 years (this would have been her 8th year working Coachella).

Autumn Lavis

Promoter Rep for Psyko Steve Presents, Box Office for The Rebel Lounge, VIP Coordinator, Merchandise and Tour Manager

Years Touring:

6 years 

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Acts Worked For:

Worriers, War On Women, Silent Planet, Anti Flag, Old Wounds, Sundressed, TWRP, The Maine, A Voice For The Innocent, Safer Scenes, Alternative Press Music Awards, Vans Warped Tour, Rock on the Range, 8123 Fest

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Story:

I wear a lot of hats in the music industry. When I’m not on the road working Merch and Tour Managing, I’m giving out high fives at the door at Rebel. We were voted as Phoenix’s Best Punk Club. Additionally, I am a part of the Psyko Steve Presents team running shows all over the city. My whole world revolves around live music. I love taking care of bands and being a part of creating a memorable experience for attendees. 

Tom Reardon

Guitar Technician & Stage Manager 

Years Touring:

15 years 

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Acts Worked For:

Pop Evil, Saint Asonia, Saving Abel

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Story:

​I began touring at the age of 18 with my own band as a guitar player & traveled all over the world. As I grew older, I made the switch from main-stage to backstage. Touring has always been my “zen” and am truly blessed to be able to have made it my full time profession. 

Chris "Brooklyn" Stella

Tour manager, Stage manager, Stage tech, and Roof Tech

Years Touring:

17 Years 

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Acts Worked For:

Vans Warped Tour, Yelawolf, Rittz and countless others building stages in stadiums. 

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Story:

Started on the warped tour making a horror movie and fell in love with it, did everything from building tents and delivering water/ice to stage and production management. Currently work with G2 structures building stages for stadium shows. Clients include Billy Joel, the Eagles, Def Leppard and Green Day.

Kristen Richardson

Merchandise Manager, VIP Coordinator and Assistant Tour Manager

Years Touring:

2 Years 

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Acts Worked For:

Hammerfall, Nonpoint, Letters From The Fire, No Resolve, Edge of Paradise, Temple Balls

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Story:

I started getting into the music scene by going to local hardcore shows growing up and just helping out my friend’s bands by selling their merch. Then I got more into bigger concerts and festivals like Warped Tour, Uproar, Mayhem, and Carolina Rebellion which eventually led me to Shiprocked where I met someone who was a Tour Manager. He told me about his job and the touring life and my life has since changed. I knew that’s what I wanted to do. My first tour was 3 months after that cruise and I’ve never looked back. I’m still new to the industry but I’m excited to continue to learn and grow through touring. 

Promoter Rep for Psyko Steve Presents, Box Office for The Rebel Lounge, VIP Coordinator, Merchandise and Tour Manager

Trevor McGoldrick

Photographer & Merchandise Manager

Years Touring:

7 years 

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Acts Worked For:

Fit For A King, I See Stars, Coachella, Northlane, A Skylit Drive, Dwight Yoakam, Alive Like Me, and more!

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Story:

I ended up starting my career via a super funny and long story of unintentionally being in the right place at the right time when I was 19.  More or less just had someone point at me and go "You! get in the van!". I became obsessed with the lifestyle thrown at me, being on the road felt more like home than home ever did. I grew up involved in my closest local music scene in Winston-Salem and in my own bands, so it was a happy accident.

Working everything from small tours selling 15 tickets per night to running merch tents for festivals like EDC Las Vegas and Coachella, I am extremely fortunate to have turned traveling the world with my camera and my friends into my career.  

Scott Hall

Drum Tech, Production Coordinator, Stage Manager

Bryan

Greenberg

Front Of House / Tour Manager 

Years Touring:

8 years 

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Acts Worked For:

Fit For a King, Erra, Silent Planet, Currents, Every Time I Die, The Word Alive, Invent Animate, Fit For An Autopsy, Born Of Osiris, Old Wounds, and more!

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Story:

I started playing in bands/going to shows at a pretty young age and it quickly became a huge part of my life; after a few months in college for recording, I realized that someone was getting paid to run sound at all the shows I was constantly attending. Soon after that I found myself working/interning at a local venue in Phoenix, busting my ass to do anything I could to learn more or get more experience. I started touring a year or so after that; I continued to grow my skills, got some bigger gigs, and haven't stopped since.

Mac Praed

Content Creator

Acts Worked For:

Hands Like Houses, Set It Off, The Faim, Palaye Royale

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Story:

Growing up, I was always touring/involved in my local scene. When my own band fell apart, I continued going to gigs as a photographer and tried to shoot every gig that came through my home town, eventually a band wanted me on tour, and from there I grew and picked up work with bigger artists, and was touring practically full time until lockdown happened!

Jason "JVAL" Valhuerdi

Tour Merchandise Manager

Years Touring:

16 years 

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Acts Worked For:

Nonpoint, The Sounds, Hot Hot Heat, Rise Against, Yellowcard, Silverstein, Matt & Kim, Minus the Bear, Death Cab For Cutie, We The Kings, All Time Low, In Flames, U2, Drake, BTS, Live Nation Merchandise, Vans Warped Tour, Coachella

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Story:

After being at the right place at the right time in my life and contemplating my job future, my touring career essentially fell in my lap when one of my best friends called me up and asked “Wanna go on tour and assist me with merch? I’ll teach you the ropes.” I didn’t know it then, but my life would change forever when I agreed to join him on a full circle US tour following the bus in a rented Dodge Neon. Once I got a taste of grimy clubs, dingy old theaters, shitty hotels, faxing in merch reports nightly at a Flying J for $4 a page or getting pulled over by border patrol for having a lockbox full of cash, I knew I never wanted to turn back to anything that stayed in the same city longer than a few days. Almost immediately I knew that I wanted to be on the road till I was too old to pick up a box anymore. My purpose and my soul feel at home on the road. Meeting new people, facing new challenges and a daily changing environment keeps things fresh. It takes away from the monotony of stationary life.

I love what touring has given me. Experiencing places all around the world I never would have been able to afford to see. Meeting all the wonderful humans and best friends I otherwise would have never known.

From the vans and trailers to the busses and box trucks. From the bars and small clubs to the arenas and stadiums, my life has been an amazing adventure I never thought I’d have and I wouldn’t trade it for the world.