Arts and Music
Websites where the calendar is the main event
Orchestras, festivals, venues, bands — they all run on Becker Design websites, from the Saskatoon Youth Orchestra to the Strata Festival of New Music. Different art, same website problem: the next date is the whole point, and everything else exists to get people to it.
What an arts website has to perform
Culture runs on dates, tickets, and enthusiasm. The website carries all three or it's a brochure.
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The Calendar, Front and Centre
Next event first, season laid out behind it, every listing one step from tickets. When someone hears about you at intermission or on the radio, the website finishes the sale the same night. - 02
Tickets Without the Detour
Whatever your ticketing platform, the handoff never breaks stride — event page to seat selection without a moment of "is this still the right site?" - 03
Media That Actually Plays
Performance video, recordings, photo sets — embedded properly, loading fast, doing what no paragraph about "vibrant performances" ever could. The art sells the art; the website just has to get out of the way. - 04
People and Programs
Conductors, ensembles, artistic directors, headliners — bios and program pages that give media, funders, and audiences something to link to. Half an arts website's traffic is somebody checking who's playing. - 05
The Donor & Sponsor Wing
Most arts organizations are nonprofits wearing show clothes. Donation paths, sponsor recognition, and funder-ready pages get built in from the start — the nonprofit playbook, tuned for culture. - 06
Festival Mode
A festival website lives a compressed life: quiet for months, then everything at once. Schedules, lineups, and passes built to take the surge — and to roll over cleanly when next year's dates land.
A full season of clients, every seat filled from here
- Connor N. — Contrafact★★★★★
Becker design did an incredible job of designing my website, as well as shooting and editing/producing a number of live performances/music videos and interviews.
The design and attention to detail is always incredible. Bryn consistently goes above and beyond what is required to make the project the very best it can be.
I would highly recommend Becker Design and Media for any of your website/video/ photography needs.
Tell us about next season
Season launch, festival edition, a rebrand between programs — bring us the dates and the ambition. We'll return with a plan and a quote priced for an arts budget's reality, everything in plain view.
Nobody googles you until they've already heard about you
Arts traffic is word-of-mouth traffic with a search bar. Somebody catches a clip, hears a friend mention the festival, sees a poster at the coffee shop — and then they look you up, usually on a phone, usually with one question: when’s the next one and can I still get in?
That means an arts website earns its keep in the follow-through. The enthusiasm already exists when the visitor lands; the site’s job is to not waste it. Next event visible instantly, tickets two taps away, enough media to turn the curious into the committed. Every extra step between “heard about it” and “bought a ticket” is where audiences leak.
The organizations that get this right stop thinking of the website as their brochure and start treating it as their box office lobby — a place people pass through quickly, on their way to a seat.
Every act on the bill
Contrafact is the full-service story — website plus performance video, music videos, and interviews we shot and produced.
The Saskatoon Youth Orchestra and Saskatoon Jazz Orchestra anchor the ensemble end — two orchestras, two entirely different websites, both juggling seasons, auditions, tickets, and donors.
Strata Festival of New Music and Coal Creek Folk Festival cover festival mode — compressed calendars, annual rollovers, lineups that change until they don’t.
Buckingjam Palace holds down the venue side — a listening-room whose site sells intimacy and dates in equal measure — and W3APONS brings the band website: music, shows, contact, no clutter.
Coal Creek FestivalTravel & Tourism & Arts and Music
Saskatoon Jazz OrchestraNonprofits & Arts and Music
BuckingJam PalaceArts and Music
There’s room on this page for your business
Every site above came out of this shop. The next spot on this page is open.
The season turns over. The website turns with it.
Arts websites age on a schedule: every fall a new season, every year a new festival edition, every month the concert that just happened needing to make way for the one that hasn’t. Left alone, the site becomes a museum of past events — and last year’s poster is the fastest way to look dormant.
We run the turnover with you. Season announcements go up when the embargo lifts, programs and lineups update as they firm up, and the quiet infrastructure — hosting, backups, security, software — never needs a volunteer’s weekend. Encore-worthy, honestly.
Let's build the box office lobby
Whatever the art form, the website's job is the same: catch the enthusiasm, sell the seat. Get in touch — and tell us when the next show is, because we might just come.