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Volunteer

Nearly 250 volunteers are needed the weekend of RiverSong to make the festival a success. Be part of the success.

Volunteering during RiverSong Music Festival is a fun and interesting way to experience the weekends’ activities. Enjoy the camaraderie of working with other volunteers while enjoying the entertainment. You receive free entry to the festival for the entire day that you volunteer! What a great, cost-effective way to enjoy concerts in MN this summer.

Volunteer Opportunities

Here is the list of all volunteer positions with descriptions and requirements for fulfilling each position. Check them out to see what interests you.

Welcome Gate/Main Entrance
Direct guests, volunteers, and musicians to respective parking/unloading areas; answer questions related to festival and camping; inform stage managers and fence patrol of incoming musician or service vehicles

Requirements: Must be at least 16 years old; quick thinker and good communication skills

Parking/Traffic Control
Direct traffic in and out of parking lot; direct designated parking for vendors, artists, and handicap

Requirements: Must be at least 16 years old

Ticket Sales
Process tickets for entry into the festival; includes cash, check, credit transactions, pre-paid tickets,  and camping arrangements; may check in bikes to bike corral

Requirements: Prior usage of credit card machine, good math skills, quick thinker

ID Check
Check guest photo ID’s and put on wrist bands which must be worn during festival in order to purchase alcohol.

Requirements: Must be at least 18 years old

Bag Check
Check guest’s bags, bag chairs, ask guests to leave food/beverages in vehicles. 

Requirements: Must be at least 18 years old, assertive

Vendor/Volunteer Check-in
Responsible for assisting volunteers in locating shift locations and times, answer vendor and musician questions about festival; check-in musician equipment and instruments

Requirements: good communication skills

Alcohol Ticket Sales
Sell tickets to purchase alcohol else where on the grounds; verify each person purchasing tickets has an “alcohol band”

Requirements: Must be at least 18 years old

Beer/Wine Booth
Verify purchaser has alcohol band; collect appropriate # of tickets for beverage; pour and serve beer/wine

Requirements: Must be at least 18 years old

Hydration Station
Assist guests with filling water bottles

Requirements: Must be at least 16 years old

Merchandise Sales
Sell artist’s CDs, festival t-shirts & water bottles; track CD sales on spreadsheet

Requirements: Prior usage of credit card machine, good math skills, quick thinker

Fence Security
Monitor festival fence line to prevent jumping over or passing alcohol in or out of festival; provide assistance in preventing alcohol served/shared with minors

Requirements: Must be at least 18 years old & assertive

Games
Keep lawn games neat, make sure patrons use correctly. 

Requirements: Friendly with good communication skills.

Greeter
Greets and assists in directing guest, hands out programs. 

Requirements: Friendly with good communication skills

Surveyor
Job description: Ask guests a set of questions and logs their responses. Requirements: Must be at least 16 years old with good communication skills.

Musician Gate
Open/close gate for musician vehicles hauling equipment. 

Requirements: Must be at least 18 years old.

Bike Check
Check in/out bicycles that RiverSong patrons rode to the festival.

Camping Entrance Check-in
Check in campers, hand out Parking Passes, allow in kayak renters, boats to landing and RV’s to dump station. Redirect ALL festival attendees and Musicians to new entrance at Montana St. using W Hwy 7 Service Road (Frontage Rd). 

Requirements: Must be at least 16 years old; quick thinker and good communication skills. Able to move light-weight barricade.


Volunteer sign-up for 2022’s Festival is now open! 

If you have any questions at all, please reach out to volunteer@riversongfestival.org

Which positions are still available?

Before submitting the form below, please review the following: 

  • Review the master list of the volunteer schedule openings/positions here
    • The volunteer spreadsheet is updated regularly
  • You will only be able to view the spreadsheet for availability, your signup is taken from the form below and processed on a first-come, first-serve basis

Volunteer Sign-up

    You may select more than one option.
  • 1.0 Mission
    Celebrate Minnesota’s rich musical heritage at an annual riverfront festival for music lovers of all
    passions and backgrounds.

    2.0 History
    The first RiverSong festival launched in 2009. It was the brainchild of a small group of graduates of the
    Community Area Leadership Program funded by the Blandin Foundation in 2006. The organization was
    formed in 2007 and is currently operating as a non-profit organization with their own 501(c) (3) non-profit
    status. Seeing an opportunity to leverage Hutchinson’s natural, historic and artistic resources, the group
    formed an action committee and recruited dozens of volunteers who wanted to expand Hutchinson’s
    growing reputation as an arts destination. RiverSong is currently a member group of the Hutchinson Center
    for the Arts .

    3.0 Definitions
    -3.1 Board member – any member of the organization that is part of the Executive Committee, Executive
    Director and/or any one of the chairpersons of a standing committee for RiverSong Music Festival.
    -3.2 Volunteer – any board member, committee member, or person who otherwise assists with
    RiverSong Music Festival, no matter what length of time their service may be.

    4.0 Personal Responsibilities
    -4.1 All volunteers must sign in and out of the volunteer check-in area at the festival.
    -4.2 Wear a RiverSong volunteer t-shirt while working at RiverSong Music Festival.
    -4.3 Follow instructions given to you by RiverSong board members regarding your duties as a volunteer.
    -4.4 Keep all volunteer, board member and organization information confidential.
    -4.5 Treat all board members, volunteers, city officials, and guests of RiverSong with kindness, dignity
    and respect.
    -4.6 Keep comments about the RiverSong organization and/or its volunteers respectful at all times.
    -4.7 Exhibit professional and appropriate behavior when volunteering for and/or wearing RiverSong
    apparel at official events.
    -4.8 Exhibit nondiscriminatory and nonjudgmental behavior while acting as a volunteer of RiverSong.
    -4.9 Volunteers may not use, be in the possession of or be under the influence of illegal or illicit drugs at
    any time while at the festival or any other sanctioned event.
    -4.10 Volunteers that are of age 21 or older must use alcohol responsibly at the festival and during all
    sanctioned events.

    5.0 Personal Commitment
    -5.1 Volunteers that do not follow the requirements listed above and/or display or exhibit inappropriate
    behaviors during any RiverSong sanctioned event may be asked to immediately leave the event.
    -5.2 Volunteers that violate the Code of Conduct and/or display other behavior that is detrimental or otherwise does not meet the mission of the organization, may immediately forfeit their volunteer status with the organization following a review by the RiverSong Music Festival Board of Directors.
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Are you interested in being more involved in planning RiverSong? Join a committee. Learn about RiverSong committees here. 

Any questions regarding volunteering, please email volunteer@riversongfestival.org.

We look forward to seeing you at RiverSong, Minnesota’s Homegrown Music Festival! 

 

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