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This project successfully raised its funding goal on April 23, 2010.
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Exclusive updates on the CD and the recording process. Will be via e-mail, song, postcard or some other unusual form.
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Your name on my MySpace music page and future web site and an advance download of three (3) tracks from the album. Plus the above.
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A digital download of the CD and graphics - and all of the above.
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Your name listed on the CD liner notes and a pre-order for a physical, signed copy of the CD. Plus the above.
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A beautifully designed t-shirt and a personal compilation of my favorite Western Swing tunes from the 1930s to the present day. Plus all of the above stuff.
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A signed show print poster and a new copy of a CD with 25 great songs by Milton Brown and His Musical Brownies (on Jazz Legacy Records) -- the inventor of Western Swing music in the 1930s. Also the above cool stuff.
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Clever mention of your name in a song on my CD. Plus all of the above.
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I'll record the song of your choice in a Western Swing style and then perform it on YouTube, dedicated to you! Plus, of course, all of the above stuff.
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A live concert in your home, for your friends, in your town. It'll be great to meet you! (Plus all of the above.)
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Connected as John Highkin (524 friends)
A musician and circus director for over 30 years, John is feverishly exploring Texas Swing music in all its early forms. John played bluegrass mandolin and bass in the 1970s in Los Angeles and Nashville, worked in theater in the 1980s (studying at Bertolt Brecht's Berliner Ensemble in East Berlin in 1987) and had a long run as co-founder and artistic director of San Diego's Fern Street Circus. He created and produced circus shows and events from 1991 to 2003, commissioning original music and playing in the band from 1998 to 2003.
He and his wife Cindy Zimmerman, an artist and educator, moved to Salina, Kansas in 2004 (for John's now former job with the city's arts department).
After all these years of being a sideman, John Highkin has stepped out as a solo musical performer. His circus past shows through in his choice of unusual songs – swing and vintage tunes, standards and oddities – and his combining playing mandolin, tenor banjo and upright bass while on stilts. It creates a show, a story, and a memorable time.
