John Buckner has a unique background playing music, touring, producing, managing bands and tours, and creating cutting edge technology. He started playing drums at four years old and began his professional music career in performance and production in 1993. From 1997 to 2000 his band self-produced and sold 90,000 albums and played over 2,200 shows over three and a half years. 2001 to 2008 he began selling and developing real estate to produce music and build a production company, while continuing as a tour and session musician.

From a dream in 2008, John founded and raised $1.8M to create Bandcrashers.  Bandcrashers produced over 150 live streamed events and was the first live streaming company, to deliver a global real time, multi camera angle experience, with no lag, latency, or buffering.

In 2010 he took the position of tour manager for the Neon Trees operating their U.S. tours, festival dates, television and radio appearances, travel, accommodations, sound, lighting, staging and working with management and label heads. John’s most notable opportunity came in 2012 when the Neon Trees asked him to play drums on their U.S. and European Tours. He appeared on David Letterman, Jay Leno, Good Morning America, and America’s Got Talent. In 2015, he financed and produced a small festival called SummerBash on the Utah Valley Univer sity baseball field with 7,000 in attendance. With the success of SummerBash he immediately began laying groundwork with the State of Utah to build a much larger festival. In 2017 Dan Reynolds, lead singer from Imagine Dragons, asked John to put on LoveLoud. In less than eight weeks he was able to raise the sponsorship funding, put the festival together, and help sell out 20,000+ tickets.

For the past 20 years John has financed music and technology by developing and selling real estate as a broker in Utah. He has developed over 7,000 doors of residential single family and multi-family housing. He is currently acquiring 9 acres of mixed-use land on Utah Lake to develop an urban mixed use city center with a destination condo hotel, restaurants, retail, music academy and 6,000 seat virtual reality venue.

In addition, a long-term agreement for 60 acres of park land adjacent to permanently locate Utah largest music festival. The virtual reality venue will house all the power needed to create the first volumetric captured music festival where millions can attend, interact, and discover advances in augmented and virtual technologies.