*** Update: This weekend 11/11/11 we go to Syracuse, NY, again another $200 in gas, gas prices have gotten better but not by much, please give $1 to keep the music alive, and get some cool stuff for it!  Next month - Cleveland OH and Harrisburg, PA - this is gonna hurt!

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*** Update: This weekend 4/2/11 we go to Syracuse, NY, another $200 in gas, the economy sucks, but hopefully we dont, please give $1 to keep the music alive, and get some cool stuff for it!

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   *** This just in - Finespun, on their way to Austin, Texas to play an industry showcase at SXSW, courtesy MusicGorilla.com  - estimated gas bill? $816.00!!! Please help us out, with your support, we can make it round trip!

***Update - the gas bills keep mounting, new total for Texas( jeez we hope the credit card companies are done sending us bills) $990.00 in gas to SXSW in TX and back! Please help with just 1 dollar

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Thanks so much for visiting our fund raising page. Our current campaign is in support of our touring, our band and mostly getting the cash together to record a new CD.

We'd like to call this campaign simply, "Please give us 1 measly dollar" - with one buck from everyone we can accomplish lots of new stuff to give to our fans and friends, so donate that $1.00 - hell you cant even ride the subway or get a pack of smokes for that anymore!

Here are some stats on what it costs us to keep running:

Recording a new CD: The last CD we made cost us over 7 thousand, yes thousand dollars!!!. Studio time is averaged at a rate of $100 per hour across the country, and those aren't even the really high end places. So after studio time, that leaves us with one CD for the band. Then comes duplication, another thousand bucks so you get your copy. Then you've got to pay to get it on iTunes, pay for publicity to support it and that's where the touring comes in....

The cost of four of us being on the road is more expensive then you might think... and the cost of making a CD, woah, through the roof!

Touring: Every tank of gas costs another $70 (about 300 miles in the van) . Tolls can range from $25-$100 round trip. Even eating at McDonald's will run us about $20 per meal. A two or more night gig means we need a place to sleep that could add another $50-$70 to our expenses.  A recent tour of 2 cities, Philly and Baltimore cost us over $600 worth of expenses for 3 days.....and oh yeah, we barley get paid anything from the venues, 9 times out of 10  we have to pay them to play at their venue.

  ...so you can see sometimes, we need a little help from our friends to keep moving onward and upward!

What we love is to play and getting the chance to bring our music to new cities is amazing. Thanks so much for your help in keeping us fueled and tuned up so we can visit your town...

PS - If you cant donate on the web or dont have a credit card, we can always work something out, just email us at finespun@finespunmusic.com

All our love, peace and volume!
Finespun