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Funded! This project successfully raised its funding goal on May 26, 2012.

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Update #2 · May 8, 2012 · comment

We are funded and the show is on!! With a little time left to go!! Some of the premiums in the right-hand column will disappear when the campaign closes out on May 26th – the seats + perks packages in particular. Tickets will still be available through the Symphony Hall box office, but …

Three reasons to get your tickets at Kickstarter: 1) You get the best seats, the general public will get what’s left. 2) You save money – avoid the $6.25/ticket box office charge, and 3) You help me put on a better show – the more money we raise up front the more we can put into production, guest artists, the stuff that dreams are made of.

We’re adding some new premiums here. If you want to bundle premiums, or add to your previous pledge, it can be done: Go into your account (or set one up), click on the project page, then select “Manage Your Pledge.” Enter the new total amount of your bundled rewards, then, lastly, send me a message here telling me what you want.

When Symphony Hall is set up “Cabaret Style” as it will be on 12/28, they take all the rows of seats out on the main floor and replace them with tables and chairs. It’s really quite magical, transforming one of the worlds finest concert halls into the most elegant club you can imagine!

Premiums involving tickets to the show are in bold below, but if you’re not in striking distance of Boston and can’t come to the show, don’t despair—there are still plenty of ways to help out and get cool stuff! The show is just after Christmas, so think Holiday Shopping!

Thanks for your support!!

Tom Rush

PS. Any Bostonians out there? Please post this on your Facebook page, help spread the word!

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  • Pledge $1 or more

    1 backer

    You get the satisfaction of knowing you helped. No small thing!

    Estimated delivery: Dec 2012
  • Pledge $10 or more

    15 backers

    A guitar pick with my “Guitar Tree” logo and (printed) signature.

    Estimated delivery: May 2012
  • Pledge $15 or more

    5 backers

    DVD: The Fish Story Song, a kid’s song made into a video with some very cool other stuff thrown in. Perfect for K-4, then 10th grade and up. In between they think it’s too “childish”. (Think Stocking Stuffers!)

    Estimated delivery: May 2012
  • Pledge $20 or more

    17 backers

    Your choice of these CDs: What I Know (the latest, and I think my best work); Trolling for Owls (silly songs and stories); New Year (live from Symphony Hall in 1980, just being re-issued).

    Estimated delivery: May 2012
  • Pledge $25 or more

    36 backers

    My very first album, “Live at the Unicorn,” recorded in 1962, fifty whole years ago—now being reissued in CD format, SIGNED (but not personalized – I’m afraid I can’t do that in this exercise).

    Estimated delivery: Jun 2012
  • Pledge $35 or more

    21 backers

    Limited edition event Tee shirt, just for the Symphony Hall show. This will be a very handsome 100% cotton shirt, and will make you look thinner. (When the project is fully funded we’ll get back in touch to see what size you want.)

    Estimated delivery: Nov 2012
  • Pledge $45 or more

    4 backers

    Limited edition show poster. We’ll make a really nice poster for this show, suitable for framing, and I’ll send you one.

    Estimated delivery: Nov 2012
  • Pledge $47 or more

    32 backers

    Balcony seat*, 1st (lower) balcony, rows B&C. While they last. (1st balcony will be filled first, then 2nd)

    Estimated delivery: Dec 2012
  • Pledge $47 or more

    5 backers

    Balcony seat*, 2nd (top) balcony, rows B&C. While they last. (1st balcony will be filled first, then 2nd)

    Estimated delivery: Dec 2012
  • Pledge $75 or more

    21 backers All gone!

    Front row seat*, 1st balcony (Row A). While they last. (Front row, 1st balcony will be filled first, then 2nd)

    Estimated delivery: Dec 2012
  • Pledge $94 or more

    56 backers

    A pair of Balcony seats*, 1st (lower) balcony, rows B&C. While they last. (1st balcony will be filled first, then 2nd)

    Estimated delivery: Dec 2012
  • Pledge $100 or more

    9 backers

    One table seat* on the main floor.** While they last. (These will be filled from front-of-Hall to back.)

    Estimated delivery: Dec 2012
  • Pledge $150 or more

    78 backers All gone!

    A pair of front row (Row A) balcony seats. (These are, in my mind, the best seats in the house.) The lower (1st) balcony will be filled first, front to back and then the upper (2nd) balcony.

    Estimated delivery: Dec 2012
  • Pledge $200 or more

    138 backers

    A pair of table seats on the main floor.** While they last.

    Estimated delivery: Dec 2012
  • Pledge $250 or more

    2 backers Limited (8 of 10 left)

    Tom Rush Cigar Box Guitar, with Tom Rush Cigar Box amp. I found these cool old cigar box labels featuring some guy (not me) named Tom Rush. Bruce Gootner is using them to make cigar box guitars. Primitive? Yes. Playable? With the right attitude, yes. Fun? For sure!! Matching battery-driven amp. Beer not included.

    Estimated delivery: Jul 2012
  • Pledge $300 or more

    3 backers

    A pair of table seats on the main floor, while they last PLUS a tee shirt, poster and Unicorn CD.

    Estimated delivery: Dec 2012
  • Pledge $400 or more

    30 backers

    Two VIP table seats (a small section up front where the guests of the artists will be seated), and thanks in the program book. Your name will be right there in print for all to see, for all time! (Limited availability.)

    Estimated delivery: Dec 2012
  • Pledge $500 or more

    9 backers

    Two VIP seats, thanks in the program book, PLUS a CD, tee shirt and poster. (Limited availability.)

    Estimated delivery: Dec 2012
  • Pledge $500 or more

    18 backers

    An entire table (5 seats) on the main floor, while they last. Bring your friends, bring the kids!

    Estimated delivery: Dec 2012
  • Pledge $1,000 or more

    15 backers

    An entire table (5 seats) in the VIP section, thanks in the program book, a set of CDs, 5 tee shirts and 5 posters. (Limited availability.)

    Estimated delivery: Dec 2012
  • Pledge $1,800 or more

    1 backer All gone!

    A Tom Rush Signature guitar from McKenzie & Marr, serial #50 (in honor of my 50th year) with a premium arch-top hardshell case. This is the one without the Naked Lady inlay on the neck. I’ve been playing an M&M guitar on stage for a while now, and they’re really nice instruments! We’ll have it shipped to you (or give it to you at the concert if you’re coming) with a guitar pick, a personalized copy of my instructional DVD “How I Play (Some of) My Favorite Songs,” and a personal letter of thanks from me.

    Estimated delivery: May 2012
  • Pledge $2,000 or more

    0 backers Limited (5 of 5 left)

    A whole table of 5 in the VIP section, thanks in the program book, a set of CDs, 5 tee shirts and 5 posters, AND you will be thanked from the stage and you’ll receive a personal letter of thanks from me.

    Estimated delivery: Dec 2012
  • Pledge $2,400 or more

    1 backer All gone!

    A Tom Rush Signature “Naked Lady” guitar, serial #50 (in honor of my 50th year) with a premium arch-top hardshell case. See her at macmarr.com I’ve been playing the very instrument pictured here on stage for some weeks now, and she’s a real beauty. We’ll ship her to you (or give her to you at the concert if you’re coming) with a guitar pick, a personalized copy of my instructional DVD “How I Play (Some of) My Favorite Songs,” and a personal letter of thanks from me.

    Estimated delivery: May 2012
  • Pledge $5,000 or more

    1 backer Limited (2 of 3 left)

    We’ll give you credit as “Associate Producer” in the Program Book, an entire table (5 seats) in the VIP section**, a set of CDs, 5 tee shirts and 5 posters AND I’ll dedicate a song to you (or your designee), AND you will be thanked from the stage and receive a personal letter of thanks from me.

    Estimated delivery: Dec 2012
  • Pledge $6,000 or more

    1 backer All gone!

    Gets you the actual Naked Lady guitar I’ll be using in the show and will be memorialized in the video documentary, signed, with a letter of authenticity.

    Estimated delivery: Dec 2012
  • Pledge $10,000 or more

    1 backer All gone!

    A private concert by yours truly at a mutually agreeable time and place in the continental US, sometime in the next 12 months. For you and your honey, or a gang of your friends – all I ask is an audience willing to listen. Additionally you pay transportation for one, and provide minimal sound and lights. (This is a significant discount off the sticker price for this kind of event.)

    Estimated delivery: Jan 2013
  • Pledge $10,000 or more

    1 backer Limited (1 of 2 left)

    (This might make a good corporate holiday gift.)[Table for 5 in the VIP section**, 2 of your party can join the band on stage for the finale, plus credit as “Associate Producer” in the Program Book, , a set of CDs, 5 tee shirts and 5 posters AND I’ll dedicate a song to you (or your designee), AND you will be thanked from the stage and receive a personal letter of thanks from me. (Rules apply to the finale—you can’t upstage the star, for instance. No chicken suits permitted.)

    Estimated delivery: Dec 2012