Music Travel Repeat → Backseat Benedictions: Music For A Road Trip 

$50,000 in Free Concert Tickets & Music for the Road (425 Songs)

To everyone who climbed into the backseat with me this year — thank you.

I hope your holidays gave you exactly what you needed.

  • Maybe that looked like loud rooms, full tables, and voices overlapping in a way that reminded you you’re not alone.
  • Maybe it looked like quiet mornings, long drives, and music doing the talking for you.
  • Maybe it was a little of both.

However you spent it, I hope you felt permission to pause. To breathe. To just be human for a minute.

A Year in the Backseat

This year of Backseat Benedictions was a wild, honest, deeply meaningful ride.

Thousands of you didn’t just read along — you showed up.
You brought your own stories, losses, hopes, and half-healed memories into the backseat and trusted the music to help carry them.

That still humbles me.

These playlists weren’t background noise.
They were companions for long drives, late nights, and moments when words failed but songs didn’t.

And together, we did something I’m incredibly proud of.

$50,000 in Free Concert Tickets — Because Music Should Be Lived

In 2025, we gave away over $50,000 worth of free concert tickets.

Not contests buried in fine print.
Not hoops, hacks, or hidden rules.

Just real tickets → to real shows → for real people who love live music.

We did it because:

  • concerts change people
  • live music is a lifeline
  • joy shouldn’t always come with a price tag

Watching you win tickets…

  • Take a friend.
  • Take a parent.
  • Take someone who didn’t even realize how much they needed that night —

That’s been one of the most beautiful parts of this entire journey.

What’s Next

The next volume of Backseat Benedictions drops January 2nd.

Same heart.
Same honesty.
A brand-new stretch of road.

While you’re waiting, I’d love for you to explore something else we’ve been building with the same care and respect for live music:

The Venue Ledger

It’s a growing directory of over 7,000 live music venues across the United States — built to help you:

  • find the rooms where songs actually come alive
  • discover stages you didn’t know existed
  • remember that live music is still happening, everywhere

Because music doesn’t start with algorithms or ticket brokers.
It starts with a room.

Check out The Venue Ledger

A Wish for the Year Ahead

As we head into the new year, I hope yours is:

  • kinder than the last
  • louder when it matters
  • gentler when you need it

and filled with music that meets you right where you are

Thank you for riding with me.
Thank you for trusting this space.
Thank you for believing that music still counts.

Here’s to another year of long drives, loud nights, and songs that stay with us.

Catch you in the chaos,
Haha Bailey

P.S.
Lauren from Troy, New York was our most recent ticket winner and is heading to see Justin Furstenfeld of Blue October at Troy Music Hall.

Keep the pit loud and loving, Lauren.
More free tickets drop January 2nd. See you then.

Music For A Road Trip : 625 Songs & Counting!