Well, the fundraising for our IAJE-killing winter 2008 tour (N.B. we did not actually kill IAJE) has officially concluded, and I'd like to give one final shout-out to all of the individuals who helped make it happen. Last year around this time was when I first decided, "Fuck it, let's take the band on the road and see what happens." What happened was that we played for tremendously supportive crowds, garnered some very positive writeups, laid the groundwork for future excursions, and somehow enticed Tim Hagans into becoming an official co-conspirator. But at the time I had no idea how I was going to pay for any of it -- even the most bare-bones, couch-surfing, car-stuffing, favor-expoiting, goodwill-straining bigband tour in history still costs a whole lot more than it could ever hope to bring in. And so it was, well, terrifying. Especially when the cruel hand of fate denied us basically all of the grants we had been counting on. There was a point (several points, actually) when I was ready to scuttle the whole tour. But thanks to individual donations from you guys -- supporters of the band, readers of the blog -- we were actually able to pull it off.
I am incredibly grateful to the following people:
Jack Brown
David Rothschild
Mwanji Ezana
John Murphy
Gerard Hogan
Michael Bradley
Paul James Birchenough
Christopher Ekman
Richard Kamins
Amy Cervini
Patrick Boyle
Steve Bellamy
Ayn Inserto
Leigh Daniels
Anthony Cammarata
Suzi Beyerstein
Janet Allen
Gord & Nancy Argue
And also to:
There is absolutely no way we could ever have done it without you.
So now that tour and post-tour fundraising has officially wrapped, we have shifted our Fractured Atlas fiscal sponsorship project to long-term support for Secret Society, which allows individual donors to make tax-deductible online contributions, which help ensure that we can keep making this music.
I do have a very exciting, long-awaited major endeavor to announce soon, but in the meanwhile, consider this a friendly reminder that your support is always, always deeply appreciated.
MANDATORY DISCLAIMER GOES HERE: Darcy James Argue's Secret Society is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. Contributions in behalf of Darcy James Argue's Secret Society may be made payable to Fractured Atlas and are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.
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