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Hi fam,

We are opening the doors on a new space that is a portal into our creative work and the work of others. We are stepping into this new portal created by patrons, upping our commitment to deliver the work we’ve been put on this earth to do, and looking for a community of helpers to help us do that.

Your patronage in this community means we will be able to:

  • sustainably create and put good things into the world as artists,

  • be of service to you and to the rest of our community, in newly relevant ways,

  • and help other artists too!

Creative work, music, art, poems, innovative ideas - these are things of great value. They are things we continually seek out and elevate to those around us. In that vein, we want to deliver more of those things to you and to our broader audience. Right now we expect we will be delivering a song about every other month, plus the videos we’re releasing regularly on social platforms - but we want to leave room to deliver art in other forms… a video version of a song, a collection of poems, a video on a quirky custom build of some guitar pedal, you never know! We dream of being able to feature and hire artists for our collaborations more often. 

This patron community came to life in the age of the Coronavirus pandemic. It’s been a latent idea for years, but the slowing and shutting down of the economy and especially the removal of live music gatherings from our public life has forced us to pivot and look again at what makes life meaningful, while reimagining how we do our work as artists. One of the things we know we carry is the joy of creating memorable and inspiring moments for our audience. We may be limited in doing that in person, but we are doing our best to continue making those moments in whatever way we can deliver it. We are inviting you to partner with us to deliver beautiful original productions on the regular and with the urgency they deserve.

Goals!

#1 Our first goal is gain 50 patrons to get started with the support to continue in this vein.

#2 Our second goal is to reach 100 patrons.. this will allow us to purchase some of the equipment upgrades needed to sustain this work, and,

#3 Our third goal is to reach 125 patrons. Wow! Reaching that goal means we would be able to invite other artists into this process and collaborate with us each month, and discover what new art is waiting to be found.

The Music

We are currently working our next full length album and launched a Kickstarter campaign to get that project funded and in a good position to deliver all the value we can. We are grateful for both our ongoing patrons and the one time support we can pull together with a big launch that Kickstarter facilitates. Both are excellent ways of showing support.

We are sharing new music and snippets as that campaign unfolds here: 

Kickstarter Campaign for our upcoming record, "Reverberations"

In the spring of 2020, we released a new song to meet the moment we were in: "One Foot in Front of the Other," which has been a comfort to our community and a joy to create. We then gathered artist friends to put together a collaborative rendition of it. Watch it here!

 

More 2020 work - "Another Way Up the Mountain" 

 

and our next single - "Here with Me"

Our patron community here is a big part of what makes this work possible. You get to send out light and love into the world by helping bring this music to life. Thank you!

 

 

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  • One Step In Tier

    $1.00/month

    You said yes! You are here and you are supporting us. Wonderful! All our patrons have access to our friends of SSB Facebook group, where we talk, share ideas, and windows into the behind the scenes work. You’ll receive a discount code to our shop and occasional patron-only invites to events when we are out on the road or for local meet ups. You are showing up for this - and we salute you!

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  • Downloads Hurray Tier

    $3.00/month

    You’re supporting us even more - hello! This tier means all of the above plus downloadable links for all our releases, emailed directly for you to keep for your very own.

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  • Webchat Tier

    $10.00/month

    At this tier, you of course receive all the goodies of the tiers above + you’ll be invited to join us when we get together for a webchat at times throughout the year - we’ll perform, chat, and discuss things together. This is a new thing for us, and we are looking forward to a personal way to connect with patrons on the regular. We can talk about how great it’s going or how great it’s not going - ups and downs are part of life when it’s working.

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  • Something in the Mail Tier

    $40.00/month

    For those of you who want to support us at a higher level, we want to send a special thank you in the mail every couple months. It might be something from our merch shop, it might be a unique piece of art by ourselves or a friend, or it might be something we haven’t dreamed up yet. This one gives us a lot of room to have fun and be creative with it. Thank you!

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  • Postcards from Outposts Tier

    $75.00/month

    You know how people used to send postcards? We think that’s cool. Yes, this means you’ll get all of the above: the something in the mail, webchats, downloads etc plus weird mail from us wherever we find ourselves. Thank you and we love you!

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  • ART PATRON EXTRAORDINAIRE Tier

    $100.00/month

    Um, hi, this is incredible. You’ll be included on all the lovely patron levels but on top of that, we’d love to give you what amounts to a personal concierge service. If you’d like a couple of signed items from our shop, just let us know, you’ve got it. If we are in the same town and we could meet up for a coffee - we’d love to to do that whenever possible. Thank you for believing in this thing, and thank you for the heavy lifting you are doing to support us!

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