Help create an event series:
The Open Jam and Community Hang
Help Us Keep the Stage Open.
Every dollar you give goes directly to making this night possible —
paying the musicians, the sound engineer, the bartender, and keeping the door free for everyone who walks through it.
We need $1,500 to make Hit the Stage happen on April 30th.
Your contribution, whatever its size, is what turns an idea into an evening.
We are a 501c3 nonprofit
(Pending tax exempt approval)
You’re donations are tax-deductible and greatly appreciated.
What You're Making Possible
Hit the Stage is a free late-night jam session and community gathering at the Triad Theater on the Upper West Side — and it is one of the most important things the Four Hands Collective does.
Not because of the musicians on stage, though they are extraordinary. Because of what happens in the room when the stage is open and the door is free and nobody’s performing for a review. When a seasoned professional sits in with the house band and a first-timer watches from three feet away and realizes — maybe for the first time — that this is something they could do too. When two musicians who’ve never met find each other over pizza and begin something that will take them somewhere neither expected. When a neighbor who came just to listen walks out having felt, for a couple of hours, genuinely held by the people around them.
These are not byproducts of a well-run event. They are the point.
The Four Hands Collective built A Night at the Triad around the conviction that art is a gift, not a product — that when a community truly shows up for its artists, something changes in the room and in the lives of everyone in it.
Hit the Stage is that same conviction applied to an open stage. It’s where we discover the artists who will perform at future Nights at the Triad. It’s where collaborations begin that none of us could have planned. It’s where the unexpected happens, because we created the conditions for it and then got out of the way.
Your donation funds this series. Not just one night — a recurring gathering that keeps the community together between shows, keeps the stage accessible to anyone with something to give, and keeps the Four Hands Collective doing what it was built to do: creating the conditions for serendipitous connection, and trusting what emerges.
We are a 501(c)3 nonprofit. Every contribution is fully tax deductible. And every dollar goes to the musicians, the room, and the people who fill it.
Thank you for being part of this.
— Craig & Hannah
Art is a gift, not a product.