Each time we fill up a bus, we pay for a month of health insurance for an artist.

Donate 25 bones/head to The Basics Fund, and get a spot on any of the upcoming bus parties. For every 10 heads you book, 1 head rides free.


Donation includes roundtrip bus party on a fully converted Grayhound style bus. Sober Driver. Drunk friends. Membership to TBF (raises funds to pay for artists' health insurance).

Upcoming events:

2/02 - Boulder to Keller Williams & The WMDs with The Emmit Nershi Band @ The Fillmore (Denver)
2/05 - Boulder to White Water Ramble, Railbenders, & Elephant Revival Concept @ The Aggie (Fort Collins)
2/07 - Boulder to DJ Shadow and Cut Chemists @ The Ogden (Denver)
2/08 - Bouder & Denver to Eek a Mouse @ Cervantes (Denver)
2/12 - Boulder to James Blunt w/ Sara Bereilles @ The Ogden (Denver)
2/14 - Boulder to Rodrigo Y Gabriella @ The Fillmore (Denver)
2/14 - Denver to Devotchka @ The Fox
2/15 - Boulder to Glitch Mob at Vinyl
2/15 - Boulder to Galactic featuring Chali 2na (J5) and Ohmega Watts @ The Fillmore (Denver)
2/16 - Boulder & Denver to “The Heart Attack” featuring The Flobots w/ The Hot IQs & Paper Bird @ The Gothic (Denver)
2/23 - Boulder to Martin Sexton @ The Ogden (Denver)
2/25 - Denver to Hieroglyphics @ The FOx (Boulder)
2/28 - Denver to Bonobo @ Trilogy (Boulder)
2/28 - Boulder & Denver to Built to Spill @ The Gothic (Denver)
2/28 - Boulder to Hieroglyphics @ The Aggie (Fort Collins)
2/29 - Boulder & Denver to Kyle Hollingsworth @ Cervantes (Denver)
2/29 - Boulder to Final Friday @ Denver Art Museum (Denver)
2/29 - Denver (DAM) to Cafe Nuba @ The Roxy (Denver)
3/01 - Denver to Kyle Hollingsworth @ The Fox (Boulder)
3/07 - Boulder to First Friday Art Walk @ Santa Fe Art District and Art in the City After Party (Denver)
3/07 - Boulder to Gogol Bordello @ The Fillmore (Denver)
3/07 - Denver to Buckethead @ The Fox (Boulder)
3/07 - Boulder to David Grisman Quintet @ The Ogden (Denver)
3/08 - Denver to Buckethead @ The FOx (Boulder)
3/08 - Boulder to The Motet and Eoto @ Cervantes (Denver)

Click flyer for full calendar and details, or call Dustin at 303.579.6555.







The Basics Fund exists to raise funds to pay for artists' health insurance while simultaneously promoting their work. The organization was incorporated as a nonprofit corporation on 5/21/07, immediately after it organized and funded a promotional tour for its first two artists, Jonson Kuhn (playwright, fiction author), and Eliza Boote (singer/songwriter). The tour was called, The Midwest Travels of Cowgirl Boote and Her Bitter Buffalo, and it headlined venues in Denver, Boulder, Lawrence, Chicago, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Omaha, and Lincoln.

These artists were chosen for sponsorship, not only because their work is amazing and original, but also because they live lifestyles of poverty, minimalism, experience, and constant involvement in their respective artistic communities. As a result of their devotion, they have not had the time or interest to take career-type jobs that would have provided them with health insurance as a benefit. The Basics Fund, believes that these lifestyles are romantic as shit, and that they are part of what inspires great art, and that the people who give up everything to live them, should be provided, at the very least, with some peace of mind regarding their physical well-being (i.e. health insurance).

Since that first tour, The Basics Fund has begun an unusual fund raising campaign, involving a 39' coach bus that has been completely remodeled with couches, bunks, tables, and of course, a keg. The Basics Fund's "Worland Wariors" bus parties have become notorious for being the most dopenastiest way to travel from Boulder or Denver to pretty much any concert, or art-related event in the country.*

*note: sometimes we have overflow, or the WW bus is in the shop, during these times, the party will still rage on, just on another bus or something.

This year, the bus has taken members and donors to Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival, most of the Santa Fe Art District's First Friday Art Walks, Art in The City After Parties, The Denver Art Museum's Final Friday Art Party ("Untitled"), Cafe Nuba, Most of the Red Rocks concerts, Fillmore Concerts, and even a couple of football games. Next year, we plan on doing more out of state events, and multiple day excursions to music and arts festivals.

Once the bus is running at its full potential (i.e. 20-25 people per event, 20 days per month, at $25-$40 donations/ passenger--depending on the destination), The Basics Fund will be able to pay for the health insurance policies of between 20 and 30 artists at a time. And once we have achieved that foundation, we can expect a lot of interest from philanthropic donors.

In other words, go to the boulderpm.com events calendar, or to the events calendar at www.thebasicsfund.org to figure out which events the bus is hitting up, and then donate to reserve spots for you and your croo. Or, if you've got a bunch of people who all want to go to an event that is not on the calendar, send an email to dustin@thebasicsfund.org, with the information, and we'll see if we can make it happen.

In addition, to getting people where they are going in style, some of the side benefits include:

*Cutting down on drunk driving
*Saving the Earth through the power of buspooling (plus, we are also trying to raise money to convert to biodiesel and veggie oil by the spring of 2008, so if you have money, and you care about that kind of thing, please get in touch with us)
*Opportunity to purchase our artists' work

Please visit www.thebasicsfund.org to learn more about this organization, its artists, and how you can help.