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The Gertrudes and several hundred friends make a record together
Dawn Time Riot is the name of our new record and it's got most of Kingston on it. We want you to hear it, but we need funds to manufacture it!
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The Gertrudes have just finished recording an album. We’re calling it Dawn Time Riot.

There’s so much great stuff on it: a flock of new songs, more elaborate accordion and trombone parts, fuzzy bass, samples of Kingston sounds like the causeway and the corner of Princess and Barrie Streets.

Featuring: the Open Voices Community Choir, a bunch of local kids, False Face, the Queen’s University symphony, our friend Teilhard, PS I Love You, Annie’s grandma, our families clapping and stomping…

We just need funds to complete the manufacturing and help get us out of recording debt!

Here’s what’s on the record:

  • Cliff Jumping
  • Warm Wind from the South
  • Freight Train (featuring Teilhard Frost on the superfiddle)
  • Sailor Song (by Anna Robertson of the Lady Racers, and showcasing PS I Love You on rock)
  • Slot Machines (clapping and stomping by families, Kate and Leo Cross, and Al Rankin)
  • The Blackbird and the Cedar
  • Concession Street (by Stephen Guy of False Face)
  • Ronnie Hawkins
  • The Gertrudes (featuring neighbourhood kids, our families, the Queen’s symphony, Al, Kate and Leo, and Annie’s grandma)
  • You Don’t Mind that it’s Raining (with Rebecca Zentmyer)
  • Catfish John (with Open Voices Community Choir)

To finish the album, we need $4000 to print the cases and manufacture the CDs. We’d love it if you could help out, in any one of the ways below. We’ll be on the West Coast in July, and hopefully on the East Coast in the fall… see you there!

Also, for every single pledge, no matter how big or little, we’d like to give you a digital download of a live 16 channel recording we made at the 2010 Apple Crisp Music Festival at Chalmer’s United Church in Kingston. This recording is a sneak peek of the album in that it features many of the songs that will be on Dawn Time Riot. We think you’ll like it.

If we exceed our fund-raising goal, we’ll still put the money towards the album and our recording debt, and if we make more significantly more than our goal, that’d be fabulous, because we’d like to make music videos for each of these songs. And possibly make vinyl records. We’ll see how it goes. You’ll still get awesome stuff. And we’ll be very appreciative.

If you really want the album – tell your friends! Help us make sure we have enough to manufacture them all… Order a couple! Ask us to play at your birthday party! We love birthday parties! Thanks!
 
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Kingston, Ontario, Canada
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Annie Clifford
Josh Lyon
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$3,250
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VIP PERKS
$7 or more = Download Dawn Time Riot!
In addition to the free download of the Chalmers show, we'd like to give you a ticket to our cd release party (this September), and when the album's released in the fall, a downloadable copy of Dawn Time Riot!
7 Claimed   (393 More Available)
$20 or more = Pre-order the album + Ticket!
A ticket to the release party and a copy of Dawn Time Riot you can hold in your hand, with cover art by Jon Claytor. It's really lovely. We'll deliver it the next time we see you.
9 Claimed   (391 More Available)
$35 or more = Dawn Time Riot! + Gert-Shirt
Same as above, PLUS an excellent shirt or belt from our merch table (Ticket + CD + Shirt!)
19 Claimed   (181 More Available)
$50 or more = A year with The Gertrudes
This brings you a year long pass to all independent The Gertrudes shows, as well as a copy of Dawn Time Riot when it comes out this fall.
3 Claimed   (97 More Available)
$100 or more = Finger puppets!
A year pass, a copy of Dawn Time Riot, and...and a complete set of Gertrudes finger puppets! This is probably what you need. Make your own music videos, make us act Shakespeare, make us debate heated issues.
7 Claimed   (93 More Available)
$150 or more = CDs, Postcards and Fashion!
Both the Hard Water album and Dawn Time Riot, plus a year long pass to all Gertrudes shows (except festivals... sorry), PLUS 10 postcards to mail to your friends! And a great shirt or belt!
0 Claimed   (100 More Available)
$350 or more = Custom song for you and yours!
We will write an entirely new song for you based on themes, subjects and names of your choice. Then, we'll record it as a video, and send it to you. There will be many solos. It will be incredible. You can also have a set of finger puppets, or a shirt, or something nice.
1 Claimed   (49 More Available)
$1,000 or more = A custom Thank You song!
We will play at your birthday party. And at that party, we will present you with a copy of the album. If you live in a distant land, you may also have to provide travel for us.
1 Claimed   (49 More Available)
HOW THESE FUNDS WILL BE USED
Making an album that sounds this good costs almost $800 a song (and that's a conservative estimate that doesn't include all the folks who played/sang for free, and the mixing of the hundreds of tracks, plus all the other volunteers who have helped out and made this amazing album possible). We've already put all the money we can into this project, and will keep putting all the money we make as a band towards it to make it possible, but we still need your help to make it work! If we surpass our funding goals, we'd love to make music videos of these songs, and we'll be putting any extra money towards that... Want to sponsor a music video? Get in touch with us!
* $3,250 raised on IndieGoGo, $3,000 raised externally
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