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Update #2: We Made It!!
Dear friends and family:
Thank you, thank you! Our Kickstarter Project has officially ended, and thanks to YOUR amazing generosity and support, we have exceeded our goal! This experience has been inspiring, and we are in awe of the community that surrounds Gifts or Creatures.
We will be in touch soon! Look out for those rewards, coming your way in the very near future.
Once again, THANK YOU!!
BIG HUGS,
Brandon and Bethany
Update #1: ****UPDATE****
Wow! This has been a amazing experience thus far! Many folks have been supportive and excited about this debut Gifts or Creatures project. Thank You! Thank you for helping us reach our goal in just over two weeks!!!
Some folks have been asking: "What happens if you go over your goal of $1,500?".
As many of you know, making a record is a big production. Our $1,500 goal is a good chunk of the duplication cost. However, we'll still carry some debt after all is said and done. We will have additional duplication costs, shipping costs, and graphic design costs.
Our Kickstarter project will be open for another 15 days. If you are still interested in helping us, any additional funds will go directly to our album. Rewards are still available!!
We're thrilled to announce that we will be printing with Stumptown Printers, a small, worker-based collective in Portland, Oregon. Check out www.stumptownprinters.com for more information about their incredible work.
Once again, THANK YOU!!
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Jodi Wiley on July 13, 2010
Wow!! That is fantastic! Congrats - keep us posted on this special project.
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This project successfully raised its funding goal on July 28, 2010.
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A limited edition signed and numbered physical CD delivered to your door with a dozen homemade chocolate chip-flax seed-cookies made with love by Bethany!
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A limited edition signed and numbered physical CD delivered to your door and a juice session at our home. Yes Fresh Juice!
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A limited edition signed and numbered physical CD delivered to your door and a house concert with Gifts or Creatures! (Show location within 90 miles of Lansing)
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Gifts or Creatures is the musical pursuit of husband-wife duo Brandon and Bethany Foote. The couple fuses a blend of midwestern folklore, old world history and cinematic soundscapes to create a unique blend of antique Americana.
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Just days before our wedding I traveled south to the heartland of America to retrieve a 1970’s Wurlitzer electric piano as a gift to Bethany. We were about to embark on a lifelong journey together and I wanted to instill the realm of music into our new home. Bethany had been playing piano since childhood and although still somewhat unexplored, I knew the possibility of a musical union was imminent.
Five months of marriage yielded a recording session that gave Gifts or Creatures its namesake. The moniker conjures up the ancient lake sturgeon, a shoebox of my early childhood action figures, and a forgotten corner of Thomas Edison’s Menlo Park workshop. The tunes that had been brewing in my head over the previous year were brought to life with the help of a legion of friends including Seth Bernard and Breathe Owl Breathe’s Trevor Hobbs. “Pilot House” was released in September of 2010 and proved to be a new preface over the traditional bluegrass and folk stylings I had soaked-up for nearly a decade.
A growing collection of fretted and keyboard instruments continue to shape the musical landscape in which we travel. Tales that provide a people’s history from our midwestern locale forge the melodic structure and stories we share. With the support of a vast community, Gifts or Creatures has performed throughout the Mitten State with notable acts such as the Red Sea Pedestrians, Seth Bernard & May Erlewine, The Ragbirds, Chris Bathgate and Frontier Ruckus.
A collection of new tunes are being meticulously crafted, arranged and tweaked with friends in hopes of a sophomore release.
