Your financial support can help the virtuoso world fusion music movement flower. Teed Rockwell's excellent India Currents article explains why support is so crucial for this movement.
Project Financial Goal: $25,000
Raised Since 8/11/2008: $75
Donor Thank You's
In December, 1978, Ancient Future went into Tres Virgos Studio in Mill Valley to begin work on the first Ancient Future record, Visions of a Peaceful Planet, which was first released in May of 1979. To commemorate 30 years of world fusion music, a 30th Anniversary Recording Series is planned with work starting in late 2008.
To fund Ancient Future's 30th Anniversary Recording Series, a subscription system model is being employed. It is a bit like making a "people's label" to fund the recording.
A special download supporter area will be unveiled in December where the work files for the project will be posted as it is being created. Even before new recordings are made, supporters will have access to files from the Ancient Future archives of live concerts and radio performances that are not currently available commercially. They will help serve as examples of possible directions the recording could take.
Subscription sales for the recording will close in 2009, but order now because the quicker supporter packages are sold, the quicker the fun begins. There are four supporter packages available:
Recording Newsletter Package: $10. Add 1 to Cart. Buy 1 Now. This package entitles the recording project supporter to receive the recording newsletter, which gives the supporter a window on the creative process including occasional links to streaming audio or video of work in progress. Subscribers to this newsletter also will get the first chance to purchase the final CD before its commercial release. Be a virtual fly-on-the-wall during the recording process.
Download Supporter Package: $25. Add 1 to Cart. Buy 1 Now. This package entitles the recording project supporter to receive everything included in the Recording Newsletter Package plus downloads of to be recorded music forming an exclusive preview audio recording with digital liner notes that will not otherwise be available in shops (selections from which will form a final public edition), and the chance to submit feedback on the best recording theme concept (first 100 supporters only). Limited to 300 packages.
Limited Edition CD Sponsor Package: $50. Add 1 to Cart. Buy 1 Now. This package entitles the recording project supporter to everything included in the Download Supporter Package plus an exclusive limited edition CD-R of the same recording with with printed liner notes signed by Ancient Future leader Matthew Montfort. Limited to 200 packages.
Honorary A & R Representative Package: $75. Add 1 to Cart. Buy 1 Now. This package entitles the recording project supporter to everything included in the Limited Edition CD Sponsor Package plus a DVD-R including video and 24 bit audio files for hi-rez playback on computers, and the chance to submit feedback on production questions that may be posed in the recording newsletter. This is the perfect package for audiophiles and home studio enthusiasts. Limited to 100 packages.
Local Project Financial Goal: $6000
Raised Since 8/11/2008: $0
Like the symphony, Ancient Future's world music concerts cannot be supported by ticket sales alone. Yet arts funding has been cut drastically, especially in the USA and in California, and the advancement and indeed survival of the art of music is at stake.
You can help support Ancient Future's local San Francisco Bay Area concert season, or with a big enough donation, provide seed money to get Ancient Future to perform in your local area.
Through an alliance with Octave Alliance's Green Music Network, the nonprofit organization for social change through music started by Ancient-Future.Com artist Alan Tower, a world fusion music fund has been set up and is now accepting tax deductible donations for world fusion music concerts and workshops by Ancient Future. The modest goal is to raise funds for two high profile local concerts in the 2009 30th Anniversary concert season. Future plans include raising money to support travel expenses for one short tour outside the San Francisco Bay Area in 2010.
Here are the suggested donation amounts and corresponding premiums for tax-deductible contributions:
$50- Supporter. Premium: VIP ticket to the San Francisco Bay Area home season concert of your choice. Make a donation now.
$95- Sponsor. Premium: A pair of VIP tickets to the San Francisco Bay Area home season concert of your choice. Make a donation now.
$140- Patron. Premium: Three VIP tickets to the San Francisco Bay Area home season concert of your choice. Make a donation now.
$175- Season Supporter. Premium: A pair of VIP tickets to the first San Francisco Bay Area home season of Ancient Future. Make a donation now.
$260- Season Sponsor. Premium: Three VIP season tickets to the first San Francisco Bay Area home season of Ancient Future. Make a donation now.
$340- Season Patron. Premium: Four VIP season tickets to the first San Francisco Bay Area home season of Ancient Future, special thanks in the program, and a signed CD on the Ancient-Future.Com label. Make a donation now.
$500- Patron of the Arts. Premium: Six VIP season tickets to the first San Francisco Bay Area home season of Ancient Future., special thanks in the program, and two signed CDs on the Ancient-Future.Com label. Make a donation now.
Tax-deductible contributions can also be made via check for any amount payable to “Octave Alliance” and sent to:
Ancient Future
PO Box 264
Kentfield, CA 94914-0264
Whether you contribute online or via the mail, a receipt from Octave Alliance/Green Music Network for your donation will be mailed to you.
2008 Financial Goal: $2300
Raised Since 8/11/2008: $600
Donor Thank You's
2009 Financial Goal: $8600
Raised Since 8/11/2008: $0
Ancient-Future.Com does not accept traditional advertising. However, like PBS, Ancient-Future.Com will accept a limited number of individual and corporate sponsors.
Text sponsors pledging $100 monthly will be thanked in the Ancient Future email newsletter, in print on Ancient Future concert programs, and with text links on Ancient Future's home page and the top frame of the World Fusion Music Links Page. Text Link: $300 for 3 months. Become a Text Link Sponsor Now.
Logo sponsors pledging $150 monthly will thanked in all the same ways as text sponsors and their logo will be included in each of the formats. Logo Link: $450 for 3 months. Become a Logo Link Sponsor Now.
For 2008 and 2009, a maximum of 6 sponsors will be accepted at a time on Ancient Future's home page and the top frame of the World Fusion Music Links Page. Ancient-Future.Com has enjoyed a high Google score. It ranked 794,072 on alexa.com as of 7/2008, and 569,661 on ranking.com as of 11/2007. Sponsoring a link can be a good business decision as well as something that will help the arts, music, and humanity. Ancient-Future.Com reserves the right to reject sponsorship links based on moral considerations such as business ethics, social impact, and environmental responsibility.