The Collective's digital hub

One home for every creative, venue, and stage in the region.

Regional rooms, IRL and virtual meetups, a shared gigs board, a resource library, and a direct line to the people already booking, playing, and presenting across our beautiful region. Free to join, built for and led by our community.

01 / Why join

The region's music people, finally in one place.

The 2024 Northeast Tennessee Music Census asked 1,213 creatives, venues, and industry workers what they needed most. 51% said a place to connect and collaborate. 59% wanted it to be community based, not top down. This is that place.

Right now, 35% of respondents find their next gig, collaborator, or stage through word of mouth alone, and another 31% rely on social media. That works until it doesn't: the same handful of connected people keep getting the calls, and everyone else is left guessing who to ask. A shared, region wide directory fixes that for good.

“I wish I had a way to work with other musicians to share the opportunities so I could even play less sometimes. I feel very isolated.”

2024 Music Census respondent

Nobody should feel that way in a region with this much music in it. The hub exists so nobody has to.

02 / Step inside

The lights are already on.

This is the actual hub, not a mockup. Rooms for every corner of the region, a gigs board with real dates, and a feed where asking for an intro, advice, or a hand is the whole point. The first face you see in there will be a neighbor's.

Inside the AMC digital hub: community discussions, regional rooms for Eastern Kentucky, Northeast Tennessee, Southwest Virginia, and Western North Carolina, a gigs board, and ways to ask for intros, advice, and help

Regional rooms. Gigs and opportunities. Intros, advice, and kudos from people who actually show up. On the web and in your pocket, with apps for iOS and Android.

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03 / Built for artists and venues first

Whichever hat you wear, there's a reason to be here.

Artists & creatives

Space, skills, and stability

Creatives, educators, and anyone supporting music connect with working peers, industry and marketing expertise, and find the resources 79% of artists have never received because they never knew it existed.

Venues & presenters

Fill the room, cut the friction

Audience development tools, best practices, and direct connections to other regional venues and organizations for help with music licensing and permitting.

City / tourism / supporter

A defensible economic case

The output, jobs, and earnings data to back a music tourism strategy, plus bookable, multiple night programming and a regional identity to build it around.

Regional rooms, one per region, every role mixed together

NETN
Northeast Tennessee
SWVA
Southwest Virginia
WNC
Western North Carolina
EKY
Eastern Kentucky · launching alongside the others

Each room is run by a regional lead who reaches out personally to new members. Local gigs, local news, local faces, and a quarterly Hang, an informal in person meetup, come with it.

04 / Join the community

Be part of it from the start.

Membership is free and open to every part of the region's music community, artists, venues, educators, and supporters alike. Join now and help shape it from the ground up.

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