WeGoFest
Twelve hours. Eight rooms. All the bands. One bus line.
One Saturday, noon to midnight. Ninety-six bands on eight stages strung along a single bus route. Nobody drives. Nobody parks. Everybody rides the party.
The whole festival, end to end
The Line = The #56 Bus route
Everybody on the same clock
The Timetable
Twelve 45-minute sets, identical in all eight rooms, with the 56 running between them. Walk out at a quarter to, catch the bus, walk in on the downbeat.
both directions, until 10pm
after 10pm
(12:55am toward downtown)
Every tick is a real Saturday departure at Five Points, from WeGo’s published schedule. Rooms close at 11:45pm and the buses keep running for more than an hour after. Schedules change — check WeGo before you plan the night.
One pass
The Fare
The festival pass is the bus pass. Tap it anywhere on the 56, ride all day, walk into any of the eight rooms.
City Sponsored
To support the arts, the venues, and public transportation
PROPOSED — WeGoFest is seeking city sponsorship. Nothing is committed yet.
The Arts
Ninety-six paid sets by working bands in a single day, from noon to a quarter to midnight. Every artist settled the same night, straight to their own account.
The Venues
Eight independent rooms across three council districts, full from noon on a Saturday. The customer and the money stay with the rooms that did the work.
Public Transportation
Every ticket holder rides Route 56, all day. A Saturday of new riders on Gallatin Pike, and a public case for what Choose How You Move pays for.
Rooms on the 56
Every room books every room
WeGoFest is a group effort. Each of the eight venues picks one band for every other venue on the line, so from noon to 7pm every set is presented by a neighbor. The 5 Spot’s afternoon, for instance, runs Dee’s, Eastside Bowl, The Underdog, Skinny Dennis, The Cobra, East Room and No Quarter, one hour each.
The afternoon is laid out so that every hour, each venue has exactly one band playing in someone else’s room. Follow a room’s taste up and down Gallatin Pike. From 7pm to close, each room books its own five sets.
| Set | 1No Quarter | 2The 5 Spot | 3East Room | 4The Cobra | 5Skinny Dennis | 6The Underdog | 7Eastside Bowl | 8Dee’s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Noon | Eastside Bowl presents | Dee’s presents | No Quarter presents | The 5 Spot presents | East Room presents | The Cobra presents | Skinny Dennis presents | The Underdog presents |
| 1pm | The Underdog presents | Eastside Bowl presents | Dee’s presents | No Quarter presents | The 5 Spot presents | East Room presents | The Cobra presents | Skinny Dennis presents |
| 2pm | Skinny Dennis presents | The Underdog presents | Eastside Bowl presents | Dee’s presents | No Quarter presents | The 5 Spot presents | East Room presents | The Cobra presents |
| 3pm | The Cobra presents | Skinny Dennis presents | The Underdog presents | Eastside Bowl presents | Dee’s presents | No Quarter presents | The 5 Spot presents | East Room presents |
| 4pm | East Room presents | The Cobra presents | Skinny Dennis presents | The Underdog presents | Eastside Bowl presents | Dee’s presents | No Quarter presents | The 5 Spot presents |
| 5pm | The 5 Spot presents | East Room presents | The Cobra presents | Skinny Dennis presents | The Underdog presents | Eastside Bowl presents | Dee’s presents | No Quarter presents |
| 6pm | Dee’s presents | No Quarter presents | The 5 Spot presents | East Room presents | The Cobra presents | Skinny Dennis presents | The Underdog presents | Eastside Bowl presents |
| 7pm–close | Its own five sets | Its own five sets | Its own five sets | Its own five sets | Its own five sets | Its own five sets | Its own five sets | Its own five sets |
Swipe the grid sideways to see all eight rooms.
One mayor, three districts, one line
City Hall on the 56
Who is behind it
It runs on Venyall
Eight independent rooms. One pass. The money split eight ways, and not a cent of service fee charged to the person who came to see a band. No mainstream ticketing platform does that without it becoming somebody’s full-time job.
That is why WeGoFest is possible at all, and it is the plainest demonstration of what Venyall is for: the venues keep the customer, keep the money, and settle with their artists the same night.
If it works for eight rooms sharing one festival, it works for your one room on a Tuesday.