Help us weather the pandemic !
It’s a different kind of year, this year! And so our annual fundraiser is different this year, too.
This year, we’re asking you to be a part of what we’re thinking of as a ‘sustainability fundraiser’ — to help create a modest foundation of dependable, crowdsourced monthly income, via our Misfit Stars Patron Community, that will help sustain us through this uncertain new time.
By being part of this effort, you’ll be helping us to continue to create and put good things into the world; to be of service to you, and to the rest of our community, in newly relevant ways; and to help other artists through this time, too. Read below for more details! And thank you so much for your support.
THANK-YOU PACKAGES:
Andromeda: $5/month
When you support us at this level, we'll mail you a super-special Misfit Stars sticker sheet! You could put them on your phone ❤️
+ "And Her Whisper Becomes a Storm" high-quality MP3 album! (arrives June 19th)
+ We'll mail you a CD of the album in June, too, if you want it!
+ Because we hit Goal 2, you'll also get an MP3 copy of The Pandemic Album! (arrives early 2021)
+ A CD copy of The Pandemic Album, too, if you want it! No extra charge! (early 2021)
+ You'll get an immediate invite to the private Misfit Stars Facebook discussion group (which is SO positive and cool).
+ instant MP3 download of new song ‘Bending the Atmosphere’
» 65 supporters!
Antares: $10/month
When you sign up at this level, we’ll put your name in the “Special Thanks” section of the "And Her Whisper Becomes a Storm" CD liner notes. You'll be immortalized forever!
+ Misfit Stars sticker sheet
+ AHWBAS MP3 album (arrives June 19th)
+ AHWBAS CD (if you want one)
+ The Pandemic Album on MP3 (early 2021)
+ The Pandemic Album CD (if you want)
+ invite to private Misfit Stars FB group
+ instant MP3 download of ‘Bending the Atmosphere’
» 62 supporters!
Sirius: $20/month
When you join at this tier, we’ll give you Executive Producer credit in the CD liner notes! How cool is that? You! A producer!
+ Misfit Stars sticker sheet
+ AHWBAS MP3 album (arrives June 19th)
+ AHWBAS CD (if you want one)
+ The Pandemic Album on MP3 (early 2021)
+ The Pandemic Album CD (if you want)
+ invite to private Misfit Stars FB group
+ instant MP3 download of ‘Bending the Atmosphere’
» 22 supporters!
A Buck A Day: $31/month
It's so simple and intuitive! Just one dollar per day! Why not?
As thanks, we'll give you Executive Producer credit in the CD liner notes. You can tell all your friends!
+ Misfit Stars sticker sheet
+ AHWBAS MP3 album (arrives June 19th)
+ AHWBAS CD (if you want one)
+ The Pandemic Album on MP3 (early 2021)
+ The Pandemic Album CD (if you want)
+ invite to private Misfit Stars FB group
+ instant MP3 download of ‘Bending the Atmosphere’
» 8 supporters!
Lyra: $50/month
Geez, this is getting pretty generous! Thank you!
As thanks, we'll give you Executive Producer credit in the CD liner notes. Wow! You're famous!
+ Misfit Stars sticker sheet
+ AHWBAS MP3 album (arrives June 19th)
+ AHWBAS CD (if you want one)
+ The Pandemic Album on MP3 (early 2021)
+ The Pandemic Album CD (if you want)
+ invite to private Misfit Stars FB group
+ instant MP3 download of ‘Bending the Atmosphere’
» 3 supporters!
Perseus: $100/month
What can we say ... but wow! Thanks!
As thanks, we'll give you Executive Producer credit in the CD liner notes. See you at the Grammys, high roller!
+ Misfit Stars sticker sheet
+ AHWBAS MP3 album (arrives June 19th)
+ AHWBAS CD (if you want one)
+ The Pandemic Album on MP3 (early 2021)
+ The Pandemic Album CD (if you want)
+ invite to private Misfit Stars FB group
+ instant MP3 download of ‘Bending the Atmosphere’
» 3 supporters!
THANK YOU! We couldn’t do any of this without you.
Our Goals
GOAL 1: 50 supporters! The first 50 people to sign up for a monthly support commitment will give us the foundational support that will help us get through the next month and finish our new album, And Her Whisper Becomes a Storm.
Also, when we hit this goal, we'll commit to performing monthly 'Shannon & Jamie' acoustic Facebook concerts! Jamie will play piano, Shannon will sing, and YOU'll pick the set list!
GOAL 2: 100 supporters! If we can get to 100 supporters,we are going to make a SECOND full-length studio album this year – an album that for now we're calling The Pandemic Album.
The Pandemic Album will be about our collective experience in this time – and the material for it will be sourced from YOUR stories and life experiences.
It feels important to us as artists to honor and document this extraordinary moment in history, and we want to do so in the way we know best. Everyone who contributes to the fundraiser will get a copy of The Pandemic Album if we reach this goal.
GOAL 3: 150 supporters! If we can get 150 people to make monthly support commitments, we should be stable enough that Jamie can start spending some of his time mixing and mastering records for free for other working artists whose incomes have been devastated in this time.
The idea here is that we can pay this forward. If we don't have to worry as much about our monthly expenses, we can spend more time helping other artists put music out into the world to help support themselves. It's an ambitious goal. Think we can do it??
new music video: Bending the Atmosphere
TEDx talk – October 2015
