Built for both sides of entertainment bookings.

Q Music exists because booking talent is harder than it should be, on both sides. Artists are great at making music. The business around it, the marketing, the invoicing, the calendar, is another job entirely, and that time is better spent on the art. Venues and clients have the opposite problem. Finding the right talent to reflect a consistent brand is the hardest part, then you deal with hiring and managing vendors, navigating the legal exposure that comes with it, handling onsite issues, chasing W9s and marketing assets, and issuing payments and 1099s.

Our platform closes that gap. It absorbs the clerical work around a booking and opens up more opportunity on both sides.

Q Music is not an exclusive agency angling for a cut of an artist's income. The model is connection and curation, putting top artists in rooms where they thrive and giving them the tools to perform at their best. Artists keep 100% of their contracted earnings, and we don't touch anything we don't book. Clients get competitive pricing and useful, one-of-a-kind tools via our app to communicate, manage, and adjust bookings.

Q Music was founded by musician Saam Hagshenas. His career in music began when he received a cold phone call from Lupe Fiasco, who had seen a music video from Saam's band Hey Champ. Lupe proceeded to sign Hey Champ to his 1st and 15th Records imprint in 2008. After touring with the band for several years, he began a side project, MONAKR, that ended up with its own record deal from Embassy of Music. While touring internationally with MONAKR and also with Minneapolis artist Dessa, he was asked to curate the DJ and live music program at Soho House Chicago in 2014. He founded Q Music in 2016 based on an idea formed in the back of a van while touring, and since that moment the platform has expanded to serve additional Soho Houses, hotels, and hospitality groups across the country.

The idea came from living every side of the business. He watched a $2,000 check lose thirty percent off the top to agents and managers who didn't secure or do much for the gig, before travel and emergency gear took the majority of what was left. He wondered why he'd have to go back to a venue a week after a DJ gig and wait around for an annoyed manager to get his check. He watched a venue's entire sound and DJ roster shift with every new manager hire. The pattern never changed. A DJ advancing a show or signing a contract is having the same conversation, over and over, and almost none of it needs a person in the middle. Q Music started as the answer to that. One platform where the booking handles itself, so artists keep their time and their rate, and venues stop doing work that software should.