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'TO THE BONE'
Pre-order my first solo record 'To The Bone' plus goodies

Hi Dear friends,

I am excited to share with you some of my new songs and what I’ve been up to. I have been writing this record for a year and have begun the recording process. This is an invitation to get on the Bone-train early on and be with me for this journey of making my first solo album. I can’t wait to share it with you!

I met sound-engineer-extraordinaire Marcel van Limbeek two months ago and am very chuffed to be working with him on my record. We have a dream to get in the studio with musicians and play live to capture it all fully. Here’s where you come in. By pre-ordering my album, or any other juicy bits you fancy, it enables us to pay musicians, studio time, cover the mixing & mastering costs and bring this record to life.

We are aiming to hit our target by 31st December. If we crazily reach our goal then all the more exciting because we will have a budget to get this show on the road, travel to see you and play live for you in 2016!

It is a changing music industry today and we as artists find ourselves open to new paths for our music to travel from our hearts+minds out to the people who count. These new songs have led me to go deeply within and it feels a little like teetering and dangling on cliffs by putting them out there. But I hope and believe great things can come from being brave.

This amazing Pledge format enables me to embrace the changes, becoming adaptive and being closer to you. To quote the gifted Rachael Yamagata, who has run great campaigns on Pledge, this is “my new fav way of returning the artist and fan direct to the driver’s seat – that means YOU and ME.”

So here’s how you can be part of this:

Make a pledge.
You can pre-order the digital album and you will receive it in advance of release downloaded straight to your iPhone, computer and Flintstone brick. You are now part of the team and have access to all the behind-the-scenes shenanigans. If you see anything else that takes your fancy in the shop below, go for it.

Link and authorize your Facebook and Twitter.
You become the voice of this project. Reach out to your lovely friends, family and next door neighbours. (Unless you’d rather leave the neighbours out of it.)

Juicyness.
Over the course of making this album you get more and more succulent stuff via your ‘all access pass’.

Reaching the moon.
If we make our goal, 5% of any further pledges will go to the Born Free Foundation. It is a charity very close to my heart, supporting the freedom and safety of wild animals. Inspiring and majestic and our great teachers.

Ding dong the postman is here.
Once we make our target, we are going to work our socks off and pump our heart muscles to complete the record by the end of February! Then artwork and printing takes place and we will get these deliveries in your boxes asap.

My heartfelt thanks for your support. Hope to see you soon down the road!
Hattie xx

asta wrote:Great to see Hattie's pledges are now at 117 - 27% of her total.
BUT - come on LC fans - 117 out of the thousands who have enjoyed Leonard and the band over 5 years on tour. As FRANKS suggests - "Come on people, we can do better than this!" Apparently the harp that Hattie is playing on the record - and in her video - was a special gift from Leonard as a thank you. Here is Hattie's message - and video - and store ..... http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/hat ... o-the-bone