HI Everyone!

We ended up with something like 130ish% of our Kickstarter goal, and added to our original preorder efforts (and with a little help from Sony Pictures) we will be able to finish these projects!

Just keep hoping that my voice comes back. After stopping prednisone, exactly what we thought would happen did...that joint in my throat swelled and made my voice sound like gravel in the wheels of a jeep driving over a chalkboard.

Incredibly aggravating, but at least I know that there is ONE thing that works, even though there is a reason I stopped taking it daily (little things like...diabetes...bone disintegration...) I can take huge amounts for a few days at a time, and it helps my voice a lot, but I can't do that very often (in fact, it is recommended that I do it..never. But I have this thing about liking to sing, something about Ikigai, or raison d'etre, or...) when I'm ready to start that third record, I should have my voice back, at least for a few short weeks, and then when its gone...well, I will deal with that then.

Until then, we'll keep working on the second (covers) record, and I'll make sure that everyone who preordered a copy of the live record has it before I put it up on CD Baby and Itunes, and keep writing the songs that keep coming, even without being able to sing the melodies...it is a different way of writing songs for me, but it isn't bad at all. Just different. And different is (almost) always good.

And, I had a little glitch in the website I was keeping all of the recording and historical data on...seems they don't like it when you overload them with hundreds of GB of music and video. Woops!

So, all of the text is still there, but all of the videos and music crashed. I still have the data on my hard drive, so it just means I start from scratch. So, I am looking for a space to house those that has a nice interface, and can also withstand the load of hundreds of demos and songs that didn't make it onto records. I have the entire weekend to myself, so I will work on it, and let you know when it is available. I think it will just be a matter of housing the data in a different place, and linking it into the existing website.

This kid free weekend will be ALL about getting everyone who pre ordered up to date with everything I have so far! :-) Thanks for being patient as I do twenty different things at once. (I've had my kids and one of my partners kids with me all summer. My daughter and step daughter are busy with camps and theatre and friends...but my six year old son is not a fan of summer camps, so its been me and him...looking at each other a lot. If I am on the computer when he's around (rarely), he will find a way to get my attention, and it is usually "negative attention." However, he usually knows better than to say he's "bored", because he knows I will find something for him to clean. But he will just sit and stare at me, like I'm supposed to start doing magic tricks or something. Thank goodness for Ipods and "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" books.

xo
Holly
PS: if you are in the Seattle area, check out the show we are doing at the Triple Door on August 16 called the "Fast Folk Revival".
It is on my calendar at http://hollyoreilly.com/...

For some reason...my eyes seem to be leaking.

I'm sure it will stop.

It isn't a medical issue, I have been assured.

Thank you. So much.

For all that you have done.

You gave money.

Then you spread the word.

Then you gave a little more.

Then you spread the word some more.

I never thought...ever...that this would work.

I thought about pulling it as soon as I put it up.

I thought: 15 years...of an artist's work?

Who cares?

Really?

Is it so important?

Like...okay, MADONNA. I can see someone buying THAT.

But mine?

And these records that one of them was live...and one of them is a cover record, and one of them hasn't fully been written yet...

And you all believed in ALL of that...

See, there they go again. My eyes are leaking.

Thank you.

There are 42 backers here, and there are 100+ backers that pre ordered before I set up the Kickstarter account...

And Kickstarter takes about 2 weeks to collect the money from the backers and make it available through Amazon.

So, I am going to start going through each of your profiles to see what you pledged, and which reward you chose, and start gathering your information (like address, etc if you chose hard copies of the back catalog.)

I would ask that you would be patient with me as I make my way through this process.

The most productive days that I will have are every other Friday, when I will spend 2-3 hours in the hospital, having chemotherapy! It seems to be, truly, the only time I get to myself! :-)

So, thank you. And please know that I am working on getting you your rewards, one by one...as quickly as possible.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

xo

Holly

http://www.hollyfigueroa.com