• Great Opportunities: No matter what your skills, interests or abilities are, The Heron has the perfect volunteer opportunity for you. With 14 different crews, there is truly something for everyone.
  
  
• Fun & Rewarding: Volunteering enriches your festival experience and you'll meet and work with some very interesting folks! It's a great way to share your festival spirit.
  
  
• Free Admission & a Spring Party: You receive a free weekend pass for 9 hours of work as well as early entrance to the festival. We also thank our volunteers with a Blue Heron May Day Party.
  

These women handle over 600+ applications that come in the mail, answer questions on-line and over the phone pertaining to all 15 crews, maintain our database, schedule the larger crews and check volunteers in at the gate. Please consider how large a task this is and thank them when you see them. They ask that you show up for your shifts (on time!) and take your commitment to volunteer seriously because each person's role is important to the whole positive vibe. Also, let others know how much fun it is to volunteer!

We are looking for festival veterans for HQ; people familiar with the workings of the festival and property. We'd like to find a few new people who are willing to work more than 9 hours; there are so many hours to fill and so little time for training. This crew in busy for about 10 days, including pre and post fest responsibilities. Some crewmembers are needed who can handle the phones, tool room inventory and Lost & Found. HQ also need a good sign maker early in the festival.

This crew is here to keep the peace, check wristbands and insure the safety of our guests. This is an around the clock crew, so let us know if you are a night owl or an early bird. We hire a professional crew to handle the tough stuff and support our efforts, so this is not a hard job. "Show your wristband!" is our mantra.

If you are certified in First Aid, Nursing or EMT please apply. This is an around the clock crew working out of our MASH tent. The Sherman Fire Department supports our volunteer crew on-site with their personnel and a mobile unit. We appreciate their help making the festival so much safer for everyone.

Certified Life Guards make up this crew. Please come help if you are qualified.

Help move them in and move them out. Just show them where to park or camp, it's pretty easy.

If you have farm tractor experience, or would like to be a rider who watches out for safety, this is the crew for you. We also have a few slots for people willing to use their own trucks to shuttle guests.

Duties are: setting up & maintaining recycling stations, sorting & packing returnables & grooming the grounds. There are pre & post-fest positions available.
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We gotta feed the performers and our core crew. Experienced cooks, prep people, servers and clean-up help please apply. Some pre-fest/post-fest positions are available.

These folks sell coffee, tea and snacks at the great new building in the woods. Late night folks appreciated here.

Those of you who love the little ones, have teaching, art or craft experience would enjoy this "job".

We're looking for energetic and creative volunteers to hang with our lively teen population. You must be at least 25 years old for this crew. Over-night crew especially needed.

This crew is not taking new crew members this year.

We start the major SET-UP on the Saturday before the fest. Tasks include: laying the dance floor, staking parking lots, putting up snow fence, setting up tents, and moving all sorts of stuff into place. Kitchen help is needed also, because we have meals together during this workweek.

Since we own the festival property, we are able to do other repair and maintenance projects throughout the spring. We call this PRE-FEST crew. This year, we have a major water system upgrade that we will be starting in April. It would be great to have some skilled help for that.

Some of the chiefs of this crew also do SITE MAINTENANCE and troubleshooting during the fest and could use some more help from people who know their way around the festival and are good at fixing things.

All these crews are a 9 to 25+ hour commitment depending on whether you are coming early and planning to stay over through the fest.

Warren "Pops" Erickson	Steve Rockcastle	Ann Gibbons
Partie Artie	Danny Berke	John Curtiss
Jody Pierce	Les Ticknor	Vince Ognibene

Tear it down and put it all away for next year! We really need a few hard workers who are able to stay a few days after the festival. Meals are provided.