Minden Productions provides event technical services for our community. We value excellence at every stage, offering unparalleled service while maintaining accessibility. Minden Productions services festivals & concerts, corporate events & conferences, and more.
Driven by a life-long passion for music, and with over 15 years in the industry, we’re here to support musicians, DJs, technicians, event planners, and venues, raising the standard across the board to benefit everyone in the community.
Eric Minden
Owner & Operator
Eric Minden is a technician and musician who has been working in the technical side of the music industry for over 18 years. Eric’s entrepreneurial approach involves caring for minute details in order to serve a higher vision of excellence and ease. While Eric’s capacity for analysis and nerdiness surrounding the ins and outs of audio tech is not unique, his kind and communicative personality set him apart in the industry.
Eric is driven by a love of music and a vision for the future of live events that values excellence, accessibility, and equity. Eric’s earliest exposures to music were through his father’s jazz and motown records, and by his mother seated at her piano. A drummer first, he grew up playing jazz and orchestral music in the school band before delving into the realms of indie rock, punk, alternative and metal. He cut his teeth as a sound technician and multi-instrumentalist in several rock, funk, acoustic, punk jazz, and musical theatre outfits in his hometown of Hamilton, Ontario. He completed a Honours Bachelor of Commerce and minor in Computer Science at McMaster University in Hamilton before giving in to his lifelong passion for music and technology. This journey took him briefly to Vancouver before landing him in Calgary in 2015.
Eric owns and operates Minden Productions and his primary musical outlet is playing in the indie rock outfit Peach Panic. Eric also performs and records with Natalie Inga & The LadyBros, Deicha & The Vududes, and freelances with other musical projects.
Natalie Inga Gauthier
Operations & Technician
Natalie Inga Gauthier is Executive Assistant to Eric Minden. She’s a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, voice coach, and budding sound technician.
Natalie has been a “Jill of all trades” her whole life, (this forced a new policy in her high school that prevented members of the women’s rugby team from participating in the after-school choir). Her post-secondary studies were in theatre, and although she majored in performance, the immersive conservatory-style program included production practicums in all technical departments, and set her on the course to begin working as a stagehand and in event technical services alongside her performance career.
Natalie and Eric first worked together in 2015 when they were both new to Calgary, where they discovered they had a lot in common, including value system, work ethic, and sense of humour. They have since worked together in a number of capacities as musicians, technicians, and friends. Natalie joined the Minden Productions team in 2023 to assist with growing the capacity of the business to meet the demands and standards of Calgary’s thriving arts community.
Natalie fronts her own original project (Natalie Inga & The LadyBros), with Eric supporting on bass. She also supports L’omelette, Deicha & The Vududes, Joe Vickers, The Fermented Beet Orchestra & more on vocals, saxophones, guitar, and some keys.
AJ Baragar
Operations & Backline
AJ Baragar is operations and backline for Minden Productions. After working with Eric and Natalie peripherally for a few years, AJ joined the team in earnest back in 2025.
Though he started a career in theatre acting back in 2016, AJ concluded that he must diversify his work options in order to keep the lights on, so he joined up as a musician with Calgary Celtic/maritime band, the Nova Scotiables in 2018. AJ met Eric in this band and after playing hundreds of shows, he developed a love for both the technical and artistic sides of the music industry. Since then, AJ has gone on to become a backline technician, session multi-instrumentalist, producer, mixing/mastering engineer, and even a house painter.
Throughout his varied career, he’s maintained his roots of being a prolific songwriter and (barely) finds time to produce his own material through his solo project, AJ Baragar. AJ also fronts the indie-rock band Peach Panic and supports Jaiden Riley & the Crybabies, Josh Dillon Band, Natalie Inga & the LadyBros, and others on guitar, vocals, drums, bass, mandolin, and synth.