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Thank you for your support! Sing a tag any time you see a Kentucky Vocal Union member at a convention (or in public). Other than that, you get nothing except saying you were part of something pretty cool, which is still pretty cool.

Estimated Delivery: Jan 2012

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Digital download of our debut album, “Live It Up!”

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(1) Digital download of our debut album, “Live It Up!” (2)Personalized thank-you note from director Aaron Dale (or any member or members of your choosing) sent on an exclusive Kentucky Vocal Union postcard (or a completely random non-related postcard if you choose).

Estimated Delivery: Jan 2012

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(1) An autographed hard copy of our debut album, “Live It Up!” and a personalized thank-you note. (2) A digital copy of the Kickstarter video blooper reel. (3) Name goes on donors list on KVU website (kyvocalunion.org). Any donation of at least $25 gets this.

Estimated Delivery: Feb 2012

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(1) Digital download of our debut album, “Live It Up!”, a personalized thank-you note, and name goes on donors list on kyvocalunion.org. (2) A Kentucky Vocal Union t-shirt. (3) A special mixtape of songs the KVU has sung by artists that have inspired the KVU.

Estimated Delivery: Feb 2012

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(1) Autographed hard copy of our debut album, “Live It Up!”, a KVU t-shirt, a personalized thank-you note, a digital copy of the Kickstarter video blooper reel, and name on donors list on kyvocalunion.org. (2) Copy of an official BHS scoresheet from a contest where we are officially listed as "Kentucky Vocal Unit" (this actually happened). (3) Learn the KVU front row's choreography! We'll send you a video walking through each Temptations-inspired step from "Since I Don't Have You," as performed at the International contest in Kansas City, Mo, July 2011.

Estimated Delivery: Feb 2012

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(1) Sponsor gets listed as KVU Sponsor on our website with full name and link to business or personal website and in one future show program—every sponsor of at least $75 gets this. (2) Digital download of "Live It Up!", "Kentucky Vocal Unit" scoresheet. (3) "The Kentucky Vocal Union’s Official Collection of Inspirational Quotes, As Said in Rehearsals"—a book of real things said in KVU rehearsals. (Available around April or so.)

Estimated Delivery: Apr 2012

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(1) Digital download of "Live It Up!", KVU t-shirt, personalized thank-you note, mixtape, front row choreography video, and KVU Sponsor status as listed above. (2) Signed 8x10 KVU print (we'll give you a few options).

Estimated Delivery: Feb 2012

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(1) Personalized Singing Valentines via video—since we in all likelihood can’t come to you on Valentine’s Day, the whole KVU will record a video valentine for your sweetheart, and you’ll have it to show him/her on Valentine’s Day (or whenever you want). We’ll sing two songs (you pick the songs from our rep) and read any sort of message you want. OR -A Singing “Valentine” on any holiday (obscure holidays preferred—Arbor Day, Constitution Day, etc.) by The Columbus North High School Memorial Kentucky Vocal Union Unofficial Pick-Up Barber Shop Quartet. We’ll learn songs if you’ve got ‘em. AND (2) KVU Sponsor benefits as listed above.

Estimated Delivery: Feb 2012

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(1) Either Singing Valentine option, digital download of "Live It Up!" (2) KVU Benefactor status: Your name and link to personal or business website will go on the kyvocalunion.org front page. (3) Select KVU members will record DVD commentary to all contest performances in KVU history (including district and pre-international sets). This includes never-before-seen footage of the KVU’s first-ever contest performance in March 2007. (4) Never-before-seen footage documenting a bunch of Kentucky and Indiana boys traveling to Anaheim, Calif., for a singing competition in 2009. (This will include the few pieces of footage from the night eight KVU members in a 15-passenger van thought would be their last on the impossibly foggy Pacific Coast Highway). (5) Possibly-before-seen-but-still-hilarious footage of all of the ridiculous tags ever sung by KVU members—tags sung in animal noises, Spanish, extreme tempos and keys, sung as Rocky Balboa, Pants on the Ground, etc. If you have an idea, we’ll try it for you and film the results.

Estimated Delivery: Feb 2012

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(1) Autographed hard copy of "Live It Up!", "Inspirational Quotes" book (won't ship until April 2012), KVU t-shirt, KVU Benefactor status as listed above, either Singing Valentine option. (2) You’ll be given a real classic KVU item: a fedora as it was worn on stage in International competition in 2009. (3) A KVU member will draw your portrait, your quartet or your chorus with his left hand (or with his right hand if he’s a southpaw).

Estimated Delivery: Feb 2012

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(1) BOTH Singing Valentine options and KVU Benefactor status as listed above. (2) A whole mess of signed 8x10 KVU prints (if you don't want them signed, that's cool too). (3) Chorus director and ace arranger Aaron Dale will write a four-measure tag to the lyrics of your choice. The KVU will record the tag, or Aaron will record learning tracks and email them to you.

Estimated Delivery: Feb 2012

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(1) Autographed hard copy of "Live It Up!", t-shirt, thank-you postcard, mixtape, front row choreo video, blooper reel, BOTH Valentine options, "Kentucky Vocal Unit" scoresheet, quotes book (will ship separately in April), videos w/ commentary, rare footage, fedora, opposite-handed portrait, signed (or not) 8x10s, custom tag, and KVU Benefactor status. (2) A KVU quartet will sing and record a time trials of any song of your choosing. We’ll perfect it until we can sing it in under a minute! (3) The Complete Written History of the Kentucky Vocal Union in PDF format, and the audio version read by bass section leader and the KVU’s most smooth-voiced member, Chris Gregory. (4) Another classic KVU item: a contest bowling shirt, worn on contest stage twice. Very stylish, both for bowling and barbershop contests.

Estimated Delivery: Feb 2012

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(1) All of the above listed in the $350 plateau. (2) Select KVU members will make a short film about your life, or a short film on a subject of your choosing. (3) The KVU will record a personalized thank-you and perform a two- or three-song concert via video with songs you choose from the KVU's catalog.

Estimated Delivery: Feb 2012

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(1) All of the above in the $500 plateau. (2) Naming rights to kyvocalunion.org: Your name, your business’ name or whatever you want and a link to your website will appear on the header of our website in a “Sponsored by”-sort of way. (3) Your name and business information will be featured prominently in future show programs. (4) You will be honored at a KVU ceremony at the International contest in Portland in July, and you will be named the KVU Man/Woman of the Year, joining former Men of the Year Paul Maglinger, Larry Watson, Erek Gillespie and Aaron Dale. Can be honored via video if you won't be there.

Estimated Delivery: Feb 2012

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Writer, musician, man about town with an almost-perverse obsession with the game of baseball. "I never sleep on planes; I don't like being incepted."

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