“We had no idea that was going to happen,” Bacon says. On the fly, they offered to match donations up to $22,000. In the end, over 900 people tuned in-many opening up their wallets and commenting in real time with requests, hellos, and well wishes.īuried in one of the hundreds of comments: a message from the Whistler Blackcomb Foundation. “I was hoping for a couple hundred people to go online.” “It exceeded all of our expectations,” says Andrew Bacon, one of the three people behind Whistler Live and the show’s MC. That will add up to 1,100 emergency food bags that are desperately needed as locals continue to face layoffs during the COVID-19 pandemic. Organized in just a few days with technology from Whistler Live, the livestreamed concert not only had the intended effect of bringing a community together remotely, but also it raised over $40,000 for the Whistler Food Bank in a mere hour and a half. Instead, locals-and people as far away as Australia-tuned in from the comfort of their own living rooms to see The Hairfarmers play in a Tapley’s Farm garage.
On Friday night, Whistlerites gathered for après-only the music, drinks, and conversation weren’t at their typical watering holes in the village.
Livestreamed après concert gave Whistler exactly what it needed The Hairfarmers' one-and-a-half-hour garage show raised over $40,000 for the food bank 2020 WITH GLOWING HEARTS: A WHISTLER-STYLE THANK YOU TO THE HAIRFARMERS
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