Windborne
CREATOR
2 months ago
Project Update: 🎶 ❤️Thank You! ❤️ 🎶 Here's what's next!
Dearest Windborne Backers,
Thank you. Thank you. We are truly lost for words, but these past few days have been humbling and awe-inspiring beyond any way we can even hope to adequately express over a digital format. Mostly I hope that you will come to a show some time and we can be in the same room and sing for you and smile and rejoice in music and harmony and being together and celebrating our togetherness. Really-please come find our shows, and say hi, and that makes all the long hours of dealing with social media and the online slog so worth it. Just people, in person, sharing beauty and in the moment live experiences.
For those of you who don't know our story, we never set out to be full time musicians. We were (and are!) friends who love to sing together, and were pursuing such diverse careers as education, circus arts, choral conducting and ethnochoreology (anthropology of dance) when we had a video go viral, and people started reaching out to us from all over the country asking us to come and sing for them. We had a bunch of long and scary conversations with each other, and then leapt, not knowing if the community would catch us.
Our path has not been straightforward. Like many musicians, the highs of exciting new venues and festivals were often juxtaposed with the shows where 5 people showed up, and the moments of transcendence also came long weeks away from home and friends, wondering if the world really wanted to hear four singers who cared about traditional music, making the world a more just place, and singing in unusual harmony.
You all have given us such a gift in not only supporting our work, but in answering that question with a resounding YES! Singing is important, as are traditions, and harmony, and working towards a equitable and kind world!
In a world where art and music is devalued, and the mainstream expectation is that all music is free (or that we pay corporations like Spotify, and not the artists that make the art), you have said YES, artists should be able to thrive! We are so lucky to have you as a community that rejects extraction of art from artists, and celebrates the whole, and we hope to be able to celebrate with you in person this year, and for many years to come.
Eventually we will have more to say, more eloquently, but for now:
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
In harmony,
Jeremy, Lauren, Lynn, and Will
Some Important Info! PLEASE READ!
Thank you. Thank you. We are truly lost for words, but these past few days have been humbling and awe-inspiring beyond any way we can even hope to adequately express over a digital format. Mostly I hope that you will come to a show some time and we can be in the same room and sing for you and smile and rejoice in music and harmony and being together and celebrating our togetherness. Really-please come find our shows, and say hi, and that makes all the long hours of dealing with social media and the online slog so worth it. Just people, in person, sharing beauty and in the moment live experiences.
For those of you who don't know our story, we never set out to be full time musicians. We were (and are!) friends who love to sing together, and were pursuing such diverse careers as education, circus arts, choral conducting and ethnochoreology (anthropology of dance) when we had a video go viral, and people started reaching out to us from all over the country asking us to come and sing for them. We had a bunch of long and scary conversations with each other, and then leapt, not knowing if the community would catch us.
Our path has not been straightforward. Like many musicians, the highs of exciting new venues and festivals were often juxtaposed with the shows where 5 people showed up, and the moments of transcendence also came long weeks away from home and friends, wondering if the world really wanted to hear four singers who cared about traditional music, making the world a more just place, and singing in unusual harmony.
You all have given us such a gift in not only supporting our work, but in answering that question with a resounding YES! Singing is important, as are traditions, and harmony, and working towards a equitable and kind world!
In a world where art and music is devalued, and the mainstream expectation is that all music is free (or that we pay corporations like Spotify, and not the artists that make the art), you have said YES, artists should be able to thrive! We are so lucky to have you as a community that rejects extraction of art from artists, and celebrates the whole, and we hope to be able to celebrate with you in person this year, and for many years to come.
Eventually we will have more to say, more eloquently, but for now:
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
In harmony,
Jeremy, Lauren, Lynn, and Will
Some Important Info! PLEASE READ!
Digital files: We just approved the final master for the album so we’ll be sending out those files in the next week to everyone in all pledge levels!
SURVEY: Also in the next week you will receive a survey to collect some important information, most importantly your shipping address. Also To reduce plastic waste: A CD is included by default in most pledges, but we know that many people don’t want them or have no way to play them. To reduce waste, if you opt to not receive the disc we will give you a $5 credit towards any other Windborne merch!
Add-ons: You will also have an opportunity in the survey to buy more albums at a highly discounted campaign rate. This will include our other books and albums, tshirts, sheet music for choirs, and more!
Shipping will begin late November, but if you don't fill out your survey we won't be able to ship. We have so many folks to get these out to, so please do this in a timely manner! ❤️
Thank you again for being part of this journey! We hope to see you at a show sometime You can find subscribe to our schedule and find our events at: windbornesingers.com/concerts
If you want to join us year-round, our Patreon community is where we share our works in progress, behind the scenes stories, and other fun stuff.
Thank you again for being part of this journey! We hope to see you at a show sometime You can find subscribe to our schedule and find our events at: windbornesingers.com/concerts
If you want to join us year-round, our Patreon community is where we share our works in progress, behind the scenes stories, and other fun stuff.
Thank you again and again and again. It's time to sleep, but I feel utterly filled.
In harmony and gratitude,
Jeremy, Lauren, Lynn, and Will
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