If you remember the group songbook Rise Up Singing, check out the sequel Rise Again.

This article looks at crowdfunding music and related expenses. Some crowdfunding projects are more successful than others; some people are better at raising money. But one thing seems consistently true: you can't take the exact model from conventional publishing and drop it straight into crowdfunding. That doesn't work very well. You need to design ( Read more... )

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These crowdfunded music projects caught my attention:

Karla Adolphe Solo Album-Graceland & Graveyards
An album devoted to the process and journey of grief.
$6,320 raised of $7,500 goal, 29 days left

Konteh Kunda School of Music
Help us build a music school that will preserve culture, empower musicians, and improve lives in Gambia, West Africa$5, ( Read more... )

March is National Music in Our Schools Month.  This is a good opportunity for crowdfunding projects that involve music, whether or not they are also involved with education.  If you've been thinking about launching a music project, go for it!  Do you know of someone else who crowdfunds music?  Promote musical activities in comments to this post.

March will be "National Music in Our Schools Month," which is the closest I could find to a general music-related month.  This is a good opportunity to plan ahead if you are thinking about launching a musical crowdfunding project.  You can also recommend musical projects that you support as a fan or patron.  Feel free to comment here with your ( Read more... )

Greetings, all! I'm honored to be considered for this year's Rose & Bay Award (" Other Project" category) and I want to thank everyone who's voted -- not only for me, but for all of the nominees. There's some amazing stuff being done, and I'm flattered and humbled to be considered worthy to be a part of it. (I think I'll have to do a "prompt" ( Read more... )

My friend Mishie tipped me to this fascinating project. There's a blog post, "Music for the New Year," and a Kickstarter project page, "Run On Sentence CSM."  There are videos of a different songs so that you can get an idea of what the music is like.

The CSM stands for Community Supported Music, inspired by Community Supported Agriculture. A $10 ( Read more... )

So, the fan GOH at Windycon decided to bring a guest, a harpist who had never been to a filk.

Such things happen, you say, and of course that's true.

But go thou and look at her Kickstarter campaign video--she made this and started raising money to make cool filk videos before ever going to a science fiction convention: http://www.kickstarter.com/ ( Read more... )

I've been out of touch with a lot lately due to RL and extremely heavy and stressful workloads. I've got a 2 week vacation now and look forward to catching up on the reading I've missed out, as well as my own art ( Read more... )