Coral Tickets
Buy the ticket. Back an artist. Same price.
Live music ticketing where half of every booking fee goes direct to an artist you choose. Already back artists on Coral? You pay no booking fee at all.
How it works
A ticket that reaches a working musician.
Three steps, one night. You go to the show you wanted anyway, and a fee you would have paid on any ticketing site now backs an artist.
Buy your ticket.
Checkout is the ticket price plus an ordinary booking fee: 2.9% plus 30 cents a ticket. Nothing is added for the artist share.
Choose an artist.
After checkout, pick an artist on Coral to receive half your booking fee. When the night's lineup is on Coral, they're the first names you'll see. The choice stays yours.
They get paid.
Your share joins Coral's monthly artist payout, the same pipeline that pays artists from monthly backing across Coral.
Our ethos
Not a transaction. Not charity. Contribution.
Transactional systems ask what's in it for me. Charity sends your generosity somewhere far from your life. Coral holds the middle: you contribute, and the money stays inside the ecosystem you already belong to.
What's in it for me. You pay, you take, the exchange ends there.
The middle space. Your money stays with the artists and scenes you already call yours.
You give it away. Generous, but it leaves your world.
For organisers
Ticketing that backs your lineup.
What is Coral?
Music is more than product.
Coral is built on that belief: a community platform for backing music as art, not product. Contributors build a coral, a collection of artists backed with one monthly amount, and 86 to 87% of every contribution goes straight to the artists they choose. Coral Tickets feeds the same monthly payout. And if you hold an active coral, your booking fees here are waived.
Explore Coral at wearecoral.orgStraight answers
Everything you’d want to ask.
No. The booking fee is an ordinary fee, 2.9% plus 30 cents a ticket. We direct half of it to an artist you choose instead of keeping it all. The price of your night doesn't change.
Artists on Coral who are set up to receive payouts. When the night's lineup is on Coral they appear first, and you can choose someone else entirely. Your share may back the performers, or another artist you believe in.
You have seven days. After that, your share goes to the artist the organiser nominated. If no eligible artist exists, it stays with Coral and helps run the platform. We'd rather you chose.
You hold an active coral. Contributors who back artists monthly pay no booking fee on tickets: backing the music already covers it.
Monthly. Fee shares from an event join Coral's artist payout after the event has passed, through the same pipeline as monthly backing.
Publishing is free. Buyers pay the booking fee on top of your ticket price, and payment processing is deducted from your payout. The artist share comes from the fee, never from your takings.
No. Coral Tickets sits alongside what you already use. It is one more channel where live music leaves something behind for the people who make it.