"Live in Europe" CD pressing/promo

THE NEW CD IS READY!! Help us get it heard!

Hey friends, fans and music lovers!

Very excited that my new CD "Live in Europe" is mixed, mastered and taking it's first steps out into the world. We were able to get it all done under our own steam, but we're asking for your help to press and promote the CD.

Even with the limited release (300 pre-release copies), the response has been awesome. OffBeat Magazine called it "a gift that keeps on givng. A jaw dropping night of blistering blues...lightning in a bottle".  We've gotten two great reviews form Europe, and various radio stations and net stations around the world have already played or featured the CD. 

LET"S PRESS THIS PUPPY!
With the official release coiniciding with our Europe tour in September and my first ever video for the single "Digitized", we have a lot to tell the world about! And that's gonna take some bucks.
My partner/piano man Christof Waibel and I have already invested over $6,000 out of pocket, and now we could use your help. We want to start off with a pressing of at least 1000 CDs (the first significant break point in cost, +/- $1k for the run), which is looking like  $1,750-2,000 with shipping (some to Europe) and liscensing for cover songs on the album. We paid tribute to a lot of our NOLA friends on the tour and CD, so we have to pay about $600 in licensing fees for a pressing of 1000 CDs.

TELL THE WORLD!
We are also committed to having a real publicity budget for the CD. Having learned the hard way, it's VERY difficult to get your music heard if you don't have a real publicity effort behind it. I'm very proud of this record, I think it's by far the best one I've made, and I want it to be heard!!!
We've already invested heavily in the video for the single "Digitized", which will debut with a worldwide exclusive on vinyldistrict.com on Tuesday, August 1., and hired a social media admin. We have publicists lined up, and hope to have at least $2,500 available for publicity.

WHY WE ARE ASKING FOR YOUR HELP
In this day and age, when buying music is pretty much the exclusive province of people who make a conscious decision to support the artist, each fan who makes a donation at any level, comes to a show or tells a friend about the music is an indespensible patron of the arts. Without your help, it's very hard to make it work. But with your help, anything is possible!!! Everyone who donates and let's their social media world know helps the cause and helps to spread the word about the music you are supporting, so each donation has much more impact than just the dollars you give.

HOW TO HELP/GOODIES FOR YOUR KINDNESS!
You can check out all of the tracks for free, or purchase the album or my enitre digital catalog at the bandcamp.com link below. If you prefer to donate by just purchasing the digital release from bandcamp for more than $8 minimum price (you can give however much you like when purchasing) or joining the Song A Month where you get all of my digital music for a minimum donation of $20 at a higher rate than the minimum.
If you donate here through Go Fund Me at a minimum of $25, you get digital copies of all three of my albums ("Live in Europe", "Poison & Medicine" (2015) and "Trickeration & Rascality" (2010) ). Special incentives including autographed CDs and posters, free show tickets, personal concerts or guitar lessons, and more for donating at higher levels.
https://marcstone1.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-europe


INCENTIVES
$50 and up - free autographed poster! Scott Williams, Muffin Bernstein and Sean Riley have designed some awesome posters for me. Many of you have seen the designs online or on the street :) Choose from the designs in the poster gallery on my website at www.marcstonemusic.com
These are actual show posters from the original print run for each show.
OR
30 min online or in person guitar lesson

$75 and up - autographed poster and autographed copy of the CD of your choice - "Live in Europe",  "Poison & Medicine"

$100 and up - autographed poster, autographed CD and one of the original batch (maybe 100 pieces) of posters from the Campbell Brothers "Rallytime" CD recorded at the fabled Old Point Bar NOMC benefit in 2006. Don't have the original design file. When these are gone, they're gone.
OR
2 online or in person 30 min guitar lessons

$150 and up - same as $100 but with autographed copies of all 3 of my CDs



PREMIUM POSTERS
I have a small handfull of posters from specialty shows like the Louisiana Blues Throwdown and Marc Stone Band w Bonerama horns with multiple autographs. In picture below.
$200 and up - multi-autographed MSB/Bonerama Horns poster (8 available)
$350 and up - multi autographed Louisiana Blues Throwdown poster (only 2 available!)

$500 and up - a private 90 minute solo performance. At your home or mutually convenient location. If youare not in NO of course it would have to tie in with my touring sched in your area. Date and time TBD by mutual availablity.  Plus autographed regular poster and autographed CD

$650 and up - private performance package and premium poster (if premium posters still avail)

$1000 or more - all of the above (perfomance, all 3 CDs, regular poster, Campbell Bros poster, premium poster if avail, 1 guitar lesson) and guest list for all my shows on which I have discretion to give comps for 2 years