Update #7
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Nov 27, 2012
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Hi Folks, so thanks so much to all of you who supported my Kickstarter project in whatever capacity, donating money, caring and sharing or just plain old encouragement if I met you personally or online. It all meant a lot to me in terms of being uplifted and spurred on to record another album. I received the money a few days ago and I am desperately trying not to spend it! I am heading for Madagascar at the minute on a cruise ship!!! NO, no no, I am starting rehearsals next week so I am excited about that.
I do want to thank some people personally here as a mark of my respect for them. Firstly my children Muireann and Áine who helped enormously with the process. They filmed my first takes of the pitch for the Kickstarter video a lot. They gave me much needed honest advice! No Mammy that sounds boring! Too long! Not happy! God almighty Mum! They also fielded a lot of technical questions about Facebook and the Internet and liked my new top. Áine got really into it after realising "the monies on the IPad" could possibly be of benefit to herself!
Thank you also to Niall, my husband for fielding even more bizarre questions than usual and for all the support in actually doing the project. I wouldn't have been able to do it without you Niall. Tracy Crawford was a tremendous help with different marketing ideas about the Facebook and how to get the most out of the timeline issues. If anyone needs an agent in Ireland or advice on outreaching the traditional community Tracy is the woman to hire. Thank you Tracy.
Also crucially involved were the people who minded my kids. I want to thank Helen who collected Áine, Carmel and Fionnuala for minding them so well, Úna who had Muireann over for a couple of hours, Fiona who does a great job in keeping them happy, Caoimhin and Deirdre for keeping them on overnights and Eithne and Brian for coming to Cork to mind the girls. I can deal with all the stress of the road, the cancelled flights,the long boring drives, the horrible food, the endless organisation just to put on a gig but having my children looked after properly is the most important thing to me which also makes it often the most stressful and worrying part. To be honest I don't worry as much about the rest. So thank you to all of these people. It means a lot to me.
Also thank you to Mike Moroney for great emotional support and for being such a good friend. To Owen Rodgers who I haven't talked to in years but he really helped in galvanising support in New York. To Stephen Power, Con Kelleher, and Paul McGeechan and Sue Phelan. Finally I want to thank my Dad who rang me everyday asking how "that machine was going?" which is code for the internet in general and the Kickstarter site. Also my brother Dick is a real wizard with the figures and really forced me to think about I needed to do and how to get it done. So thank you for that lads. I have done a lot of thank yous already and if I have forgotten you, Please forgive me. I am sure I will be adding more.
Anyhow thank you all sincerely for helping me to do this. Keep well. Karan
