Harry Styles fans can enter a draw for concert tickets through EARNT, which works with local organisations to offer volunteer shifts. Selected applicants must complete the assigned activity before receiving their tickets. In New York, fans helped prepare a meal at a senior centre and staffed a free neighbourhood celebration. Some went on to organise more volunteer work together after the event.
Alex Colucci had followed Harry Styles since One Direction, but the work she signed up for in New York involved greeting cards and lunch. At a senior centre marking Hispanic Heritage Month, she and the other volunteers helped in the kitchen and watched people at the centre take part in a dance class. The concert was still ahead of her. The first people she met through the ticket programme were the people who used the centre.
Colucci, 29, had found EARNT on Instagram and already volunteered elsewhere. The possibility of linking that part of her life with a concert was enough to make her look into the programme. When she was selected, she brought her two younger sisters to the centre. Her best friend went with her to the show at Madison Square Garden. Different parts of the experience ended up involving different people in her life.
EARNT works with local organisations to set up shifts. For the 2027 dates, Harry Styles fans sign up for a draw. Those selected must complete the activity with the person they plan to bring before they receive a pair of tickets. Getting through the first form only registers interest. There is still a selection process, and there is work to do once a place has been offered.
More than 180,000 people registered their interest in less than 48 hours after the 2027 extension of the “Together, Together” tour was announced. An estimate of a million potential volunteer hours accompanied that response. The estimate describes what the interest might amount to. The number of hours already worked is measured separately and gives a more useful view of what participating organisations have received so far.
Across six cities, the programme reported 38,304 sign-ups and 3,574 completed volunteer hours, alongside 153,216 hours people indicated they were willing to give. The New York figures were 562 sign-ups, 308 completed hours and 2,248 hours of stated interest. There are Harry Styles fans behind each of those figures, but only one set of figures records work people had already turned up to do.
In another part of New York, Henry Street Settlement worked with volunteers on a free event for neighbourhood families. Maryam Donnelly, 56, and her daughter Lexi, 20, had both volunteered before hearing about EARNT. Lexi helped at the water station and Maryam handed out cookies to children. When the day ended there were still tents to take down. That was the point at which Lexi recognised two volunteers she knew through the Harry Styles community on Instagram.
Lexi said the chance of a ticket had excited her. The day also introduced her to the work Henry Street Settlement does and left her thinking about taking another shift. Maryam remembered seeing children and families enjoying themselves and wanted to return to the organisation. The ordinary work of keeping the afternoon going had given both women a sense of where they could lend a hand again.
According to Maryam, fans in New York set up a group chat to arrange other activities, such as helping food distribution organisations and walking dogs. Those plans could go ahead without another Harry Styles date in town. The meeting at the tents is a reminder of how that could happen. Fans who already had a way to recognise one another online had spent an afternoon doing the same work in the same neighbourhood.
The “Together, Together” tour covers 108 shows across North America, Europe, the UK, South America and Australia, with its finale scheduled for August 28, 2027 at Wembley Stadium. EARNT and its local partners handle the volunteer work. The artist’s role in drawing people into the programme is easy to recognise in the response to the tour announcement, while a shift is organised around what a particular partner needs done.
There is an obvious connection with “Treat People with Kindness,” a song fans already associate with Harry Styles. In New York the phrase took on a more specific set of tasks. It meant writing cards and helping prepare food, or keeping a water station running while children played. For Colucci, the senior centre also offered a few hours in which people who might never have met through the concert could spend time in the same room.
When Colucci talked about Madison Square Garden afterwards, what made the ticket memorable included the people she had met on the way to getting it. Lexi’s memory came from another end of the process entirely, as she was helping to finish the day’s work and heard a conversation about music among the volunteers who had stayed to pack up.
