I’m so grateful to Jennie McKeon and Independent News for featuring me in their piece about Kickstarter. Give it a read!
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I am so happy to have been featured in Pensacola’s Independent News this week for a story about my Kickstarter campaign. Click the link below and give it a read!
It is crazy to think that one week from today my wife and I will be driving to Nashville to record my first profession album. The songs have been demoed, the musicians have been booked, and the studio is waiting. I am standing on the edge of a moment which has literally been years in the making, and I cannot believe it is about to take place.
This kind of thing might naturally open that all-too-familiar door of temptation: temptation to feel some sense of pride, to somehow think that I’ve made this happen, to make it all about me. But in this past year, as this dream has started to take shape, that temptation has really felt so foreign and alien to me. Truthfully, I feel like I have been in a constant state of exasperated shock. Questions have plagued my mind. Doubts have nagged at my heart. Feelings of discouragement have made me weak in the knees. Night after night, I have felt like I’m the last person on earth who should have this kind of opportunity.
But with this barrage of contradictions and emotions swirling inside of me, in the end, I keep landing on the same truth, a solid foundation that has never changed and helps me keep my footing: the simple fact that it’s not about me.
When you, my friends and family, came through in such a big way to fund a great majority of the album expenses, I didn’t take it as a boost of my pride or ego; I felt, and continue to feel, humbled and in awe that God would be so good.
When a member of my church family places gas money in my hand to help for gas on the road, I feel it again: the undeniable goodness of God.
When I sing a song about my brokenness and God’s grace to a small crowd at a coffee-house, I feel it all around me: the goodness of God.
His goodness, not my merit, is the reason I’m making this trip next week.
I wish I could fully express my gratitude for all that you have done, but I hope that the songs that I am recording, feeble as they are, will be of some recompense to all of you who have given so freely. This is not just “my” CD that I’m making. It is yours, too. And I cannot wait for you to hear it!
I will try to post pictures and videos throughout recording week, so be sure to keep up with me on Facebook and Twitter to see the progress!
Well, it’s hard to believe that recording in Nashville is just six shorts weeks away thanks to all of my wonderful Kickstarter supporters. The CD will release toward the beginning of June, and I am also excited to announce that I will be going on tour this summer after the release to promote it!
Yes, my wife and I will be packing up in our little Honda and hitting the road at the beginning of June, traveling the east coast as far north as New York, and heading back down a little more inland.
That’s the plan, anyway…
I have been sending out e-mails and messages left and right to book some shows, but I need some more ideas and connections to help me actually start filling in the schedule.
That’s where you come in.
Below is a list of the cities/general vicinities I’d like to schedule some shows in/around. If you know of any churches, coffee houses, or small venues in or near any of the following cities, would you please let me know? Obviously, there will be no “charge” for my doing a concert; I’m just looking to play some churches and coffee houses starting out and would honestly love to have even an audience of 20 people at a time, just to share some music with and maybe sell a few CDs for gas money to the next place.You can send me an e-mail to jonmorrismusic@hotmail.com, or you can send me a message on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/jonmorrismusic)
Tallahassee, FL
Jacksonville, FL
Savannah, GA
Charleston, SC
Charlotte, NC
Washington, D.C.
New York City, NY
Asheville, NC
Nashville, TN
Atlanta, GA
Birmingham, AL
Montgomery, AL
Mobile, AL
I appreciate you all!
Thanks,
Jon
Maybe I should have written this on Thursday, but I spent some great time with my family that day-as I’m sure most of you did as well-and I didn’t really have time to post. So what I should have said Thursday, I will say today.
My Kickstarter campaign for my album reached its goal on Thursday around 4pm, and I honestly can’t think of a more fitting day for it to have come to an end than Thanksgiving. I want all of you to know how sincerely and extremely thankful I am.
I am thankful for all of you putting of with my barrage of tweets and Facebook posts.
I am thankful for all of you sharing with your family and friends about what I am doing.
I am thankful for all of you who gave toward the project with willing hearts and sacrificial love. (Believe me on this one, I know what a real sacrifice it was for some of you to give, and I am humbled and in awe that you would invest in this dream that I have felt called to see through. I am so undeserving, and I cannot thank you enough.)
As I said in the Kickstarter video, I will be going to Nashville March 19-22 to record, and I am hoping that the album will release a few months later at the beginning of the summer.
I look forward to sharing these songs with you all, and I hope that in some way they will give you hope, courage, comfort, peace, and joy, not through my words, but through the truths of God that I aspire to illuminate.
In the meantime, I will keep everyone updated about news, performances, and overall happenings that come up.
I love you all. You have my eternal gratitude.
Jon
November 24th.
That is the last day of my campaign to raise the money I need to record my new album. If I don’t reach the goal, I don’t receive any of the money pledged.
Please watch this AMAZING video to find out more:
The link to the Kickstarter page is below.
Hey there!
As you may already know, a few days ago I started the process of raising funds for my new CD that I will be recording in Nashville this coming March. I am using a website called Kickstarter for this and am excited to see how it has taken off. Basically, I have set a goal of 6,000 dollars, and I have until November 24th to reach that goal.
After the third day, I am so grateful to say that 540 dollars have been pledged so far! What’s even more amazing is that that amount is the result of only 9 people backing the project!
I am excited, humbled, ecstatic, and just about every other emotion you can imagine right now. 540 dollars is amazing, but I still have a long way to go.
If 9 people can do that much so far, I am sure the rest of this goal will be no problem.
Here’s the thing: if you know you would want to buy the album after it releases, donate to the Kickstarter campaign and you’ll actually help me make it, receive cool rewards, and get the album anyway!
Would you PLEASE consider pledging to the project and encouraging all your friends and family to do the same? If I can have 100 people donate 50 dollars each, that will essentially fund the project and make this album a reality!
Click on the box above or the link below to take you to my Kickstarter page where you can pledge.
Thanks,
Jon
Hey, everyone. Welcome to my new website. I am traveling to Nashville to record my first professional album in March of this coming year, and I need your help! You can stop by this site to stay up to date with what’s going on in the recording process, to see where I am performing next, and to keep up with the latest announcements and news. Help spread the word! And thanks for your support.
Jon
*Special thanks to Amick Cutler for the website design and to Jeremy Moore for breathing it to life.