Boston Hassle and Brain Arts\u2014impresarios of experimental, underground music shows\u2014will make most of their shows free for folks younger than 18, the organization announced on Monday.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo help showcase BRAIN Arts & Boston Hassle\u2019s ongoing & continued commitment to show-goers of ALL AGES we have decided to make our shows FREE for those UNDER 18 for the remainder of 2018,\u201d they said on the Hassle website<\/a>. \u201cThere are of course exceptions, such as shows we might simply be co-promoting @ larger venues, or festivals such as Hassle Fest 10 in November, but the vast majority of the the remaining 80-ish shows we will book this year are now FREE for show-goers under 18 years old.\u201d<\/p>\n Why would they do such a thing? According to the Hassle website, \u201cThe youth is our future, hopefully some of them will be motivated to check out a handful of shows they might not have checked out otherwise because of this initiative.\u201d<\/p>\n Beginning around 2010 or so, Dan Shea and Sam Potrykus founded Boston Hassle and then Brain Arts. Last year, they produced more than 100 shows around greater Boston. They also operate the Boston Hassle website, monthly Boston Compass newspaper, bi-monthly Black Market flea market, and (since January) Dorchester Art Project gallery and studios.<\/p>\n Help Wonderland keep producing our great coverage of local arts, cultures and activism by contributing to Wonderland on Patreon<\/a>. And sign up for our free, weekly newsletter<\/a> so that you don’t miss any of our reporting.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Boston Hassle and Brain Arts\u2014impresarios of experimental, underground music shows\u2014will make most of their shows free for folks younger than 18, the organization announced on Monday. \u201cTo help showcase BRAIN Arts & Boston Hassle\u2019s ongoing & continued commitment to show-goers of ALL AGES we have decided to make our shows FREE for those UNDER 18 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5504,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[201],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6598"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6598"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6601,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6598\/revisions\/6601"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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