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Seeking Funds for His Next Project Via Kickstarter, Eric Person Joins Growing Crowd of Creative Types
Saxophonist Eric Person is down to the last week of his Kickstarter campaign to fund his proposed next album Thoughts on God-Project of Hope. The 48-year-old St. Louis native, who has performed with jazz luminaries including McCoy Tyner, Dave Holland, Chico Hamilton, and the World Saxophone Quartet, so far has attracted 110 backers who have pledged ...
"The Composer" with Matthew Shipp Launches its Kickstarter Campaign
A planned film collaboration between Matthew Shipp and Barbara Januszkiewicz has entered its initial search for funding via Kickstarter. The American Jazz Museum has graciously agreed to extend its support to this collaboration so that supporters will be eligible for a charitable deduction. The Project: An independent film highlighting the relationship between a musician, jazz great ...
IndieGogo Raises $1.5m for Fan Funding
Dealing with major labels and publishers may be scaring many investors away from music tech. But for those startups that don't need to license music, angel and venture capital dollars are continuing to flow freely. During August more than $39 million dollars was invested in music startups; and today artist fan funding site IndieGoGo announced it had ...
Kickstarter Now Has 10,388 Successful Projects. and 3,110 Are Music-Related...
Kickstarter is now celebrating its 10,000th successfully-funded project—and 3,110 of them are music-related. In fact, music is the most successful category, just barely edging out film and television. So, jump right in and get some cash? Not so fast: it turns out that 13,113 projects were failures, and never met their funding goals (a 44 percent ...
Kickstarter Added $13 Million to New Music Economy in Just 2 Years
Kickstarter turned two years old today and shared some stats that show just how important their fan funding platform has been to d.i.y. music and the new music economy. Overall $53,107,672 has been pledged and $40 million collected to fund 7496 successful Kickstarter projects. Of that, $13,094,547 went to fund music related projects. Music was Kickstarter's ...
Jason Parker Quartet to Record Tribute to Nick Drake via Kickstarter
The Jason Parker Quartet, one of Seattle's up-and-coming jazz bands, is heading into the studio on December 26th to record a tribute to Nick Drake. “Five Leaves Left: A Jazz Tribute to Nick Drake" is a unique concept in that it is a remaking, song by song, of the British singer-songwriter's debut album. Rather than take ...
Award-Winning Composer Rob Mosher's Fundraising Concert Monday, Nov. 15 Towards Recording His "31 Chorales" Kickstarter Project
AWARD-WINNING COMPOSER ROB MOSHER'S FUNDRAISING CONCERT MONDAY, NOV. 15 TOWARDS RECORDING HIS “31 CHORALES" KICKSTARTER PROJECT Mosher Creates Bach-Style 31 Chorales in 31 Days in Celebration of His 31st Birthday In Midst of Raising $3,100 through Kickstarter.com to Record the Music “A gifted composer who offers a fresh and updated approach." —All About Jazz “Mosher does ...
Why the Opportunities on Kickstarter Are Real
This is part two of my interview segment with Yancey Strickler, who is the co-founder of Kickstarter, a crowdfunding platform for creativity. In this section, Strickler talks about his optimism for the future of music, why he and his staff don't even use the word crowdfunding, and how the $20 million that people have contibuted to ...
4 Essential Elements to a Kickstarter Campaign
Recently, I spoke with Yancey Strickler, who is the co-founder of Kickstarter, a crowdfunding platform for creativity. In this interview, Strickler talks about moving past a one-size fits all model for financing creativity, how pull marketing models relate to Kickstarter, and why fan-funding encourages fans to become more active particiapants in their cultural lives. Hypebot: In ...
