Within your sea of fans, you’ve got super fans. Super fans are magic. No matter what you make, they’re listening, watching, and happily along for the ride. How do you connect with them? How do you create with them?
Join Patreon co-founder Jack Conte as he chats about community with Ben Folds and Amanda Palmer.
Jack Conte is a musician, filmmaker, half of Pomplamoose, and a co-founder of Patreon, a membership platform that makes it easy for creators to earn salaries directly from their biggest fans. Patreon. As a musician and filmmaker, Jack spent his days making YouTube videos that have amassed over 120 million views. Now, he’s in full-time CEO mode at Patreon HQ in San Francisco where the company is paying millions of dollars to creators every month around the world
Ben Folds is widely regarded as one of the major music influencers of our generation.
He’s created an enormous body of genre-bending music that includes pop albums with Ben Folds Five, multiple solo albums, and numerous collaborative records. His last album was a blend of pop songs and his Concerto for Piano and Orchestra that soared to #1 on both the Billboard classical and classical crossover charts.
For over a decade he’s performed with some of the world’s greatest symphony orchestras, and in 2017 was named as the first ever Artistic Advisor to the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center.
Amanda Palmer is a singer, songwriter, playwright, pianist, author, director, blogger and ukulele enthusiast who simultaneously embraces and explodes traditional frameworks of music, theatre, and art. She first came to prominence as one half of the Boston-based punk cabaret duo The Dresden Dolls, earning global applause for their inventive songcraft and wide-ranging theatricality. Her solo career has proven equally brave and boundless, featuring such groundbreaking works as the fan-funded Theatre Is Evil, which made a top 10 debut on the SoundScan/Billboard 200 upon its release in 2012 and remains the top-funded original music project on Kickstarter. In 2013 she presented “The Art of Asking” at the annual TED conference, which has since been viewed over 20 million times worldwide. The following year saw Palmer expand her philosophy into the New York Times best-selling memoir and manual, The Art of Asking: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Let People Help. Since 2015 Palmer has used the patronage subscription crowdfunding platform Patreon to fund the creation of her artwork. This has enabled her to collaborate with artists all over the world with over 14,000 patrons supporting her creations each month. Palmer will release her new solo piano album and accompanying book of photographs and essays, There Will Be No Intermission, on March 8, 2019, followed by a global tour. Recorded in late 2018 with grammy-winning Theatre Is Evil producer/engineer John Congleton at the helm, the album is a masterwork that includes life, death, abortion, and miscarriage among its tentpole themes.
THE PLACE FOR CREATORS AT SXSW 2019. Introducing Patreon’s House of Creativity, home to curated collaborative programming, interactive exhibits, daily exclusive performances, and nightly live shows from creators on our platform and musicians changing the industry.
Located in the heart of Austin on Rainey Street, Patreon’s House of Creativity is the ultimate destination for creators and leading artists to connect and create at SXSW.
