Cory Hajde.
Artist Manager, Entrepreneur, and Operator.
I am an artist manager, events programmer, venue owner, and bar owner born and living in Cleveland by way of Chicago and Columbus. I specialize in talent buying and programming club-size venues in Ohio's major cities. I represent a variety of career touring artists to assist in navigating their creative vision while helping organize all avenues in their career. I am a bar owner and have a passion for improving the state and conditions of the growing service industry. Some of my hobbies include exploring the outdoors, traveling, and cooking.
Works
Alternate Side
I manage a variety of artists at Alternate Side. We're a full service management company with offices in Albany, Cleveland, Denver, Los Angeles, and New York. My roster is made up of Chelsea Grin, Dayseeker, ERRA, Field Medic, Fit For A King, Hot Mulligan, Silent Planet and Snarls. I have over 13 years of management experience.
BravoArtist
I co-founded and own a concert company out of Ohio called BravoArtist. It was started in 2012 with one of my best friends, Ben Leubitz. We're a high-volume events programming team that organizes and handles 600+ concerts a year between Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, and Dayton.
We have a small team of 15 members who come from all walks of the music world - touring musicians to writers to podcasters. We specialize in small club and theater touring. We've broken many tour artists in the Ohio market such as Post Malone, Twenty One Pilots, Good Charlotte, Vince Staples, Mitski and many more. We've been hired to buy talent for multiple festivals such as BrewDog's Annual General Mayhem, Independents Day Festival, Acting Out! Festival and Park Street Festival.
Cloak & Dagger
I own a bar called Cloak & Dagger. Cloak & Dagger is a cocktail lounge located in the beautiful neighborhood of Tremont right outside of Cleveland. Our goal is to create an exceptional service model offering craft cocktails and a plant-based tapas menu. The name Cloak & Dagger derives from a comic but takes a new meaning of literature in our establishment. Each bi-annual menu presents a different short story and will read like it.
