Kickstarter

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I don't believe in the “starving artist” mentality. If you really want to do something creative in your life, go after it and make it happen.

THE HISTORY After two years of insane creativity, I have crafted a delicately intimate full-length/full-band album documenting THE HUMAN CONNECTION - the supremacy of love, the controversies within our society, and the majestic struggle of the Self.

THE ALBUM Renowned producer Matt Pierson (Diana Krall, Kirk Whalum, Brad Meldhau, Jane Monheit) producing this album at Flux Studios in downtown Manhattan. The Rolling Stones, Sean Lennon, Marc Ronson, Mick Jagger, and countless artists have all recorded masterpieces at Flux. We are slated to record for six days this summer with a slew of remarkable musicians; confirmed so far is bassist Alan Hampton (Gretchen Parlato), drummer Nate Wood (Kneebody) and pianist David Cook (Liz Right, Natasha Bedingfield).

ALBUMS COST MONEY I am paying for this album out of my pocket (along with the barely-lined pockets of HSBC, Momma, and Daddy). I have to pay the studio, the engineer, the musicians. I have to pay to get this beautiful album mixed and mastered. I have to pay to create physical copies of the albums. I have to pay for a PR campaign to promote the album, and to tour to support the album.

STEPHANIE’S BUDGET is a whopping $30,100.

$6,300 - studio time at Flux

$8,800 - production & mastering

$7,000 - bass, drums, guitar, strings, woodwinds

$2,000 - graphic design & duplication

$6,000 - distribution & promotion

MY PLEA I am writing to ask you to help me create this record. A buck, ten dollars, fifty -- whatever you can manage (can I hear one hundred? Two? THREE?) will literally catapult my career into a whirlwind of adventure. I cannot do this without you. I cannot do this without you. I cannot. I am paying for this album out of my pocket.

MY GOAL is to raise $5,000 to pay for most of my studio time at Flux.

HOW KICKSTARTER WORKS If you contribute, you receive spectacular rewards of love (see the right hand side of the screen).

If I go over my goal, the additional money will be spent on the remaining studio costs and replicating the physical copies of this delicious CD.

If my goal isn’t met, I will crawl back into my cave, your money will get refunded to you, and I will sell various organs and limbs to the bank in exchange for a meager loan with a terrible interest rate.

The campaign will end at midnight on my birthday.

OUR CONNECTION I want to share my passion, motivation, and crusade to feel alive with you. I want to make this album OURS - a project fueled by the human connection could not be created in a more perfect way.

Let’s all sing “Kumbaya” and hold hands around the fire. I love you.

Stephanie

KICKSTARTER PARTY

MAY 28 8-12pm

Abigail Cafe & Wine Bar

803 Classon Ave & St Johns Pl // Brooklyn, NY 11238

bring your dancing shoes.