How the crowd books a festival.
Fans buy blind. Promoters guess. Scalpers keep the upside. Blossom flips all three: the people who are coming decide what they are coming to, and the gap between face value and real value goes to the fans and to the show, not to bots.
The festival
An intimate, intentional music and wellness festival on natural ground in Southern Arizona, planned for wildflower season. Each day runs from morning yoga and tai chi through an opening ceremony, collaborative sound healing, workshops and activities, to the main stage from 4 PM with music and ecstatic dance until 1 AM, then a communal drum circle around a ceremonial fire until 4 AM. The last morning closes with a ceremony. Entertainment, workshops, water, food and essential amenities are included in admission; the exact venue is announced before the first ballot.
The Sprouts
The first 3,333 tickets sell at $222, by card, Apple Pay, Google Pay or any crypto. That is the only price a Sprout ever pays, and it is also the floor: the ledger refuses any listing below it. Later buyers pay the market price. Four tickets per person, so the electorate stays a crowd and not a broker. Every ticket lives in the buyer's Blossom phone app, which holds the signing key, votes with it and sells it; computers show the communal live board only, so no vote can be cast from anywhere but the holder's phone.
$740,000 committed before a single act is named is enough to put real guarantees on the artist ballots. Sprouts are the first vote, and the only voters on the three headliners.
Nine rounds, one a week
Voting opens January 1, 2027. Only the main stage is voted on: three nights, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, and three acts a night. Headliners first, then direct support, then openers. Each slot takes one week: voting opens Monday, every night at midnight ET the act with the fewest votes drops out, five days, and the winner is announced Saturday. One vote per ticket per day; your pick carries over unless you change it. Every vote is signed from your own app so nobody can vote for you, and it travels with the ticket if you sell it. Each night’s count and the final result go on the ledger.
Nobody appears on a ballot who didn’t ask to be. Artists opt in with the date held and a fee set, so whoever wins is booked. Losing acts go to the front of the next ballot.
The market
A selling round opens after every vote: the Saturday a result is announced, the market opens for two days, and once the last round is decided it stays open until the gates. If the lineup no longer suits you, list your ticket at the price you want, never below the current floor, and sell it for a profit; anyone can buy it by card or crypto. This is the up-only schema: the ticket price steps up $50 every time a round is decided and never goes down, the floor steps up with it, and every later release sells at or above it. Early buyers can sell for a profit as the show takes shape, straight from the phone app; nobody can be made to sell below what they paid. The ledger takes the fees, credits you and moves the ticket in one entry, so there is one price everyone can see and no place for fakes.
- Seller pays a 2.5% fee, buyer pays a 2.5% fee. That, plus a 5% share of first sales, is what runs the platform.
- Sellers are paid the moment it sells: PayPal, Venmo or Zelle within two business days.
- Four tickets per person, always. A ticket that has been scanned at the gate can’t be sold.
- If the event is cancelled, every ticket holder is refunded what they paid us. There are no change-of-mind refunds; that is what the market is for.
The ledger
Every ticket issued, vote cast, listing, trade, payout and gate scan is an entry in the Blossom ledger. Each entry carries a fingerprint of the one before it and, for fan actions, the holder's signature. On a schedule the head fingerprint is written to the Base blockchain, so nothing before that point can be edited or removed without the mismatch being visible to anyone who checks the ledger page. Holders are never named; tickets appear by number only.
At the gate, the app shows a pass that changes every minute. The scanner checks who holds the ticket in the ledger right now, not a barcode that can be screenshotted, and writes the scan to the ledger.
What is fixed, and what the crowd decides
Fixed: the dates (April 23–25, 2027), the length (three nights), the place (Southern Arizona; the exact venue is announced before the first ballot), the starting price and the $50 step and floor, the four-ticket cap, the fee rates, and that every option on a ballot is pre-signed and bookable.
Who gets the money. Tickets pay the acts, the crew and the site. Five percent of every ticket goes to the green fund, and the artists and crew who make the weekend share the festival’s profit through the Bloom Split: every act gets its fee plus vote shares of the artist pool, the crew shares a pool by role, a bonus opens on a sell-out, and the whole split is published live.
Three stages. The main stage is the one the crowd books. The other two are booked by the organiser, so the weekend has a floor before the first vote; those acts are announced as they are signed.
The crowd decides: the nine acts on the main stage, a headliner, a direct support and an opener for each of Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Then it decides, every day until the gates open, what a ticket is worth.