KICKSTARTER MATCHING FUNDS OFFER:
We have just received an offer of matching funds!
All contributions/purchases received from this moment on (we're at $3087) until the end of the campaign tomorrow at 2pm, will be matched dollar-for-dollar up to $500!
Click here to make your contribution and/or advance purchase. By the way: Every dollar above $3087 will count, whether a new pledge or an increased pledge!
Kickstarter Report: We've reached our goal of raising $3000 via the Kickstarter website!!! However, the campaign does not end until tomorrow, Friday, January 27, at 2pm.
Every dollar beyond our goal counts. The recording process is expensive and we, no doubt, set the minimum we felt possible as our fundraising goal.
Reminder: Tomorrow night: Post-New Year's Vechirka at Kramarczuk's!
THE DOOR FEE is waived!
Celebrate with us a successful fund raising effort!
Thank you to everyone who has contributed to and made advance purchases of our debut CD!
Щиро дякуємо Вам!
Support our Debut CD Project!
Щасливого нового року! Happy New Year 2012!
In Ukrainian tradition, the New Year is an important time to clean your house & homestead and have them blessed, and to have all doors and thresholds marked with a cross using a natural, wheat paste.
It is also the time of year for singing shchedrivky or New Year's carols. Shchedrivky typically speak of the importance of generosity & bestow wishes of good fortune for all in the New Year. The melody of Carol of the Bells--a tune associated in the US with Christmas--is derived from an old, pre-Christian Ukrainian shchedrivka about a bird called Shchedryk (Generous One) who bestows good fortune on all he visits.
The New Year is also known as Malanka. Malanka is a holiday with roots in pre-Christian traditions that became associated in Christian times with St. Melania and with the New Year's festivities. See the collection of videos below of how Malanka is celebrated in the Carpathian Mountains of Ukraine. Very interesting!
SO, without further ado:
May your crops be adundant, may your fortunes increase, and may your household always be bountiful and joyous in this new year!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWRBx16R2FM
Дякуємо вам! Thank You!
We are grateful for the great turnout at our fund raiser on Friday, November 18. With the help of fans like you we have traveled a good distance toward achieving our goal of getting into the studio this winter. Your support & generosity is highly appreciated & lifts our spirits to new heights!
However, we still have a way to go! For those who could not attend but would like to contribute and help us raise the remaining funds, look for our Kickstarter page in the coming days. (We are waiting forfinal approval of our Kickstarter page by the website's administration; for now, have a look around at Kickstarter. It's full of many exciting projects!)
Again. . . Thank You! Щиро вам дякуємо!!
PHOTOS from our Debut CD Fund Raiser!
Courtesy of Bob Iwaskewycz
