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WHETHER YOU’VE BEEN WITH ME SINCE THE VERY BEGINNING DAYS OR THIS IS YOUR FIRST MOMENT IN MY CREATIVE WORLD, I’M SO GRATEFUL FOR YOUR TIME, PRESENCE AND ATTENTION HERE. AS WE ENTER THIS NEW POST-TRUTH WORLD, ONE SMALL ACT I CAN CONTINUE TO OFFER IS THE TRUTH OF MY EXPERIENCE, THROUGH MY WRITING. AND IN IT, A SOFT PLACE TO LAND, A PLACE TO CONTEMPLATE THE COMPLEXITY, AND TO FEEL.

All contributions will primarily go toward supporting working artists and independently run businesses (musicians, engineers, studios) with living wages in my communities in California and Portland. We are so grateful!

PART 1 - THE SONGS

This collection of songs is a little looser and less straightforward yet still very much a folk record. ‘elliptic’ was a word I heard used in Adrianne Lenker's songwriting workshop (or perhaps she said ‘elliptical’) as a way that a song could be - cyclical, meditative, even opaque in meaning and seemed to encompass a lot the feelings I had been writing through.

They are mostly in mystical, modal, open tunings and explore nuance, uncertainty, difficult choices and changing directions in my personal life, as well as eco-anxiety, climate grief, mental health, untangling family lineage and finding holiness and reverence in nature. Can I do all that in a song?

PART 1 - THE HISTORY

I turned 40 this year —

which means I’ve been doing "this" for twenty years.

I suppose you could call it an anniversary of sorts, when I first found the courage to begin performing my own songs. Playing songs at a house show in Santa Cruz, CA in 2004 (and later that year again, when I moved to the east coast) was amazing, and terrifying - but I began to find life through it.

Fast forward twenty years and I still have so many projects, songs and life brewing inside me. My work has evolved quite a lot since those first moments (I hope) yet I don't often have the resources to carry out a lot of what I wish to do. If you’ve been following my journey, you know that I have already made four community-funded (at least in part) albums, and that support has been crucial in continuing to make music.

In recent years I’ve learned that I need to find better ways of living in harmony with my natural rhythms, my sensitivity, my creative drive, the limitations of being in a physical body and my financial life. Behind the scenes of art (performing, touring, writing, recording), I also work as a music educator, teaching artist and somatic-informed Creativity Coach.

PART 2 - THE FUNDRAISER

While I have been grateful to have run successful crowdfunding campaigns and a number of local arts grant over the years, I've also continued to take on personal debt to fund albums, tours, promotion and other creative projects. One important facet of pursuing music in a healthy way means no longer being willing to take on so much financial risk.

I believe that artists deserve to live healthy lives ~ physically, financially, spiritually and emotionally ~ without giving up the time and freedom to create. So I have created my own version of a fundraiser, in hopes this will create greater ease and creative output in my life.

PART 3 - THE ALBUM

We’ll be splitting time between Altamira Sound in Los Angeles, CA and Page Street Sound in Portland, Oregon. I have a wonderful group of people working with me and I’m confident that we are going to create something unique and beautiful together. I am bringing it all into a mostly live / collaborative process and I’m very excited to explore that.

Jeremy Harris - engineer / co-producer

Carly Bond (Meerna) - engineer

Meg Duffy (Hand Habits) - guitar / vocals

Mary Lattimore - harp

Marisa Anderson - electric / acoustic guitar

Matthew Holmes (Hayley Heynderickx) - upright bass

Micah Hummel (Anna Tivel) - drums / percussion

Mat Davidson (Twain) - extra layers

Recording Studio Fees x 6 Days - $3000

Musician / Collaborator Fees - $7500

Engineer / Co-Producer - $5000

Travel To LA (1 Week) - $1000

Mixing / Mastering - $3500

PR - $5,000

TOTAL GOAL - $25,000

PART 5 - THE CONCERT

I’d love to bring you closer into my world in a more analogue way, so I’m curating an intimate, candlelit “first listen” concert this spring (May 2025) where we’ll get to hear a few of the album tracks as well as some of these songs in live form, for the first time.

My vision is for this to be a super special event just for folks supporting this project. We’ll have tea, wine, time to connect and be together. At this stage it’s difficult for me to predict when the album will be out, so this is something I can offer on a more concrete timeline. The concert will be taking place in Portland, Oregon (+ also to be recorded / streamed virtually)

PART 6 - EXCHANGES

A few meaningful ways we can connect.
Pick 1 or choose your own amount to donate
All tiers $25+ will include the album (digital)

$12+
A postcard to anywhere in the world :)

$25+
“First Listen” Candlelight Concert
An invite to the event (Portland, OR in person)
OR tune in from afar (will be streamed virtually)

+ PDF SONGBOOK (Songs Through the Ages)
(lyrics and chords to many of my songs)

$75+
Analogue Community
A new way to connect, through letters.
1 per season / 4 per year, and each includes ~
1 handwritten letter + 1 photo print + 1 creativity prompt
(LIMIT - 50) ~ first letter in Spring 2025

$150+
Songs Through the Ages - A Songbook
Songbook of lyrics / chords to many of my songs
*please request any specific songs that you’d like
This is the Printed (Book) Version
(LIMIT - 50) ~ will ship Fall 2025

$250+
Songwriting Mentorship, Creativity Coaching
2 private sessions with me on any of my offerings
(Songwriting, Creativity Coaching, EFT/Tapping)
OR 1 x Astrology Reading
(LIMIT - 10)

$500+
In Person Studio Visit
(Portland / Los Angeles)
Come see what we’re up to. :)
(LIMIT - 4)

$1000+
Custom Song
You choose the subject / tuning / style.
Or set me loose and I’ll write something. :)

OR

Private House Concert
A private concert for you + your loved ones
West Coast (WA, OR, CA) or
East Coast (NY / New England)

$1500+
Private House Concert (UK / EU)
A private concert for you + your community

If there’s something else you were/are hoping for, please contact me!

THANK YOU

Thank you for your generous, beautiful support.

all my love,

LC

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track list (something like this) -

Avalanche Lily • Blood • The Divide • Elliptic • If I Never Figure it Out • Water from the Glen • High Heaven • Limits • Wheel • Keep Saying It • Lilacs • Lincoln Sparrow • Forsythia • Bright Star • Circles

COMMUNITY CONTRIBUTIONS

For each person who chooses to support this project, I’ll be donating $1 of my own funds to causes that matter to me, they will be split between Taking Ownership PDX, CA Indigenous Heritage Project (Nisenan Tribe) and LA Wildfire Relief Fund. I chose these based on where I have lived and worked throughout my life.