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JUST WANT TO MAKE GOOD MUSIC.

Hi, my name is Sara Skinner and I'm just going to be real with you for a second:
I'm from a medium sized town called Texarkana, TX. Since I was really little I liked to make up songs and sing them in front of my window, holding my red & white Ibenez electric guitar, imagining  that one day I would have a yard full of people standing out there watching, and singing along. Well, my dreams have expanded a little..
I was blessed to have a radio single in 2013, toured around playing shows with some cool bands like Hinder, Hanson, and so on and so forth. I moved to LA in 2012, wrote with some really notable people, played on the streets, played in really cool clubs, but after a year I felt like it all added up to nothing. From a positive perspective, I learned how to be a better business woman when it comes to my music, and how to not let people walk all over me and try to tell me what to do.
So.. I moved back to Texas and made a lot of Youtube videos and hit the 1,000,000+ views mark, and felt cool for a second until I realized I was still just sitting at home, going to work out once a day, recording cover songs once a week, and not really living my dream of performing, producing and songwriting. So in November I moved to Nashville, Tennessee to do this music thing, where, despite my parent's total willingness to support me in reaching my dreams, I decided to throw some responsibility on myself, get a real job at a restaurant and become an "adult" who actually paid some of my own bills, like rent, water, food, gas, electrical - All things that make me look back and think things like "Wow, my parents weren't kidding when they told me to keep my air off of 80 degrees during the winter."
So now I'm here, and I'm working a lot of shifts at a restaurant to pay these bills, and I realized that this restaurant job is becoming my life, and greeting people and bussing tables are really the farthest things from what I came here to do. I currently do not have a way to record the new material that I do make time to write, or make videos for them because my laptop has proved itself incapable. :[ So I want to use this money donated by you for 4 things:


(UPDATE) I ALREADY BOUGHT EVERYTHING, SO NOW I'M USING THE FUNDS TO PAY THIS OFF:
1. iMAC 21.5" = $2,400 (with tax)
2. Final Cut Pro X = $300 (with tax)
3. KRK Rokit 5s = $500 (with tax)
4. 1 Terabyte External Hard Drive - $200 (with tax)

So that actually comes out to around $3,400

My goal at the end of this campaign is to be able to come home from work, make music, record it on a professional level, and create tons of video content to put out ALL THE TIME. For ya'll and for my sanity. I will also be able to begin producing small projects for other artists and businesses, as another side job (that I will actually enjoy!). 

REWARDS: At this point I can't really afford to ship anything out except signed 8x10 Posters, so if you click "DONATE" and you would like a poster, just simply select that $20+ option during the checkout and then re-enter the amount you would actually like to donate. Or donate $50+ and get 3 unreleased acoustic versions of songs produced with the equipment you funded through this campaign!

ALSO I am doing weekly 30 minute USTREAM performances
to see how much money we can raise during those. Performance Times will be at different times every week for people with weird schedules and time zones. They will always be posted a week in advance on my website SaraSkinner.com on the Live Shows page. 
First USTREAM - March 22, 2013

I truly cannot thank you enough.

Love,
Sara

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Sara Skinner
Organizer
Nashville, TN

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