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Kickstarter Hits Crowdfunding Milestones but Successful Music Projects Lag
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HypeBot
Five million backers have successfully funded more than 50,000 projects on Kickstarter, the company has announced, cementing their place as the world's top crowdfunding platform. Projects on Kickstarter have a 43.8% success rate and $720 million has been passed on to fully funded campaigns. Music projects, however, did not always raise impressive sums. Just over 45% of the 24,500+ music projects on Kickstarter have been successfully funded. Almost 11,000 of the music projects, however, raised under $10,000 ($1000 - $10,000); and only 27 have ...
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Tom Waits, Derek Trucks, Sinead O'Conner, Others to Record Kickstarter Funded Blind Willie Johnson Album
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HypeBot
DIY Jazz Artist Carsie Blanton Shifts Sound to Seduce Listeners on Kickstarter
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HypeBot
Ian Anderson is the co-author of “100 Music Kickstarters to Learn From" on LaunchAndRelease.com. 75% of all music Kickstarters raise less than $10,000, according to Kickstarter. Carsie Blanton raised $9,232 in the first 24 hours of launching her “Jazz is for Everybody“ projectwhich ends on Saturday, August 31st. Carsie is not a major touring act with label support or financing. She is a DIY musician who “joined a funk party band at the age of 16 then spent a few ...
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Support Scott Feiner & Pandeiro Jazz - 4th CD "A View from Below" at Indiegogo
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Michael Ricci
About A View From Below A View From Below marks an exciting turning point for my Pandeiro Jazz project as this is the first recording comprised entirely of original compositions of mine. Sonically speaking, it's also completely different from my previous three CDs, which were more acoustic in nature. A View From Below features a unique trio of pandeiro, keyboards, and electric guitar, which I've been experimenting with for several years, but only now have captured in the studio. Along ...
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Archie Shepp's Kickstarter For New "Attica Blues" Project
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Pushan Bhowmick
Archie Shepp launches a Kickstarter campaign to finalize funding on a new Attica Blues Band live album recording. Forty years after his masterpiece Attica Blues, recorded with a big band of 39 musicians and in which he highlights social injustices faced by African Americans, Shepp returns with a brand new big band composed of 26 musicians (young and experienced) from France and the United States to transmit his values to the new generation. The new big band will record a ...
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The Jost Project Plays The Music From The '60s - Support it at Kickstarter!
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Tony Miceli
Support The Jost Project - “Can't Find My Way Home" Kickstarter Campaign We’re a band devoted to jazz and hope to reach a generation of rock fans in a style that will introduce them and pull them into our world. What’s our goal? To create a whole new connection between the music of the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith, Donovan, Simon and Garfunkel, the Beach Boys, and jazz. We love it when fans of such songs as “Walk This ...
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Jazz Rockers Led Bib Launch Kickstarter For Their 10th Anniversary To Make A New CD And Live Vinyl
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Mark Holub
Jazz/Rock/Experimental band Led Bib have launched a Kickstarter campaign to support their 10 year anniversary celebration which include a new CD release and a limited edition live LP to be released on Cuneiform Records in May 2014. And here are the full details of the Kickstarter campaign. So....we have actually survived ten years together....hard to believe it's been so long! So....we want to celebrate, and we want to do that by making 2014 a really special year for Led Bib. ...
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Brazilian Jazz Duo Minas Launches Kickstarter Campaign For CD “symphony In Bossa”
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Brendan McGeehan
Philadelphia-based Brazilian jazz duo Minas has launched a fundraising campaign to record their latest album, “Symphony in Bossa, A Tribute to Bill Zaccagni.” Channeled through the crowd-funding site, Kickstarter, Minas seeks to raise $20,000 to hire orchestral string players, a big band and a rhythm section to record, press, and distribute the album. The campaign runs for 5 weeks, from April 9th to May 21st. In 2004 arranger and University of the Arts faculty member Bill Zaccagni teamed up with ...
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