It takes a village to make The Village…

For the past two years, we, The Family Crest, have been hard at work to make our first full-length record, The Village.  After countless recording sessions, sleepless days and weeks, and the collaborative recording efforts of over 100 musicians throughout California, we are finally mixing, mastering, and printing our record.

While we are inches away from the finish line and on the cusp of producing something we’re truly proud of, there’s one last thing we need help with: fundraising.  Mixing, mastering, and printing is a $10,000 process, and we can’t foot the bill on our own.

So, with the help of the micro-donations site Kickstarter, and YOU, The Family Crest is launching a fundraising campaign.  We have 60 days to raise $10,000.  Please support us by pledging, and we’ll reward you with advanced copies of the record, homemade t-shirts, music lessons, and other personal events with The Family.  If you’re not in a position to pledge, please help us by spreading the word: tell your friends, family, co-workers, and facebook and twitter followers about us, and let’s make this happen.

To help us promote our cause you can post/send the link below to your friends and family:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thefamilycrest/the-family-crest-finishes-their-first-record?ref=users

Thank you so much for your continued support.  It means the world to us!

Love,

Liam, John, Laura, Sarah, Owen, Mike, and Jake

The Family Crest

All of this will be featured on our upcoming video blog. Until then… here is our fourth video blog. Thanks for tuning in!

We’ve been quite busy over the last few weeks.  Our show at the Rrazz Room for Maggie Weiland’s AIDS/LifeCycle fundraiser went extremely well.  Thanks to everyone that came out to support such a wonderful cause.  We also had a great time playing at Bazaar Cafe… the owner Les and his staff were all extremely welcoming.  Also, thank you to all of our Extended Family Members that have played with us over the last few weeks.  Lucas Chen, Evan Buttemer, Ben Cohen, Maggie Weiland, and Liz Hoffman… you’re all amazing and we love you much.

Now for our exciting news: we’ll be having our last recording session for our upcoming release, The Village, on June 4th at Bazaar Cafe.  If you’re interested in joining The Family and being on our first full length record, please come!  We’d absolutely love to have you.  

Anyway, be well everyone and as a parting gift… here is our third video blog. 

Cheers!

Without further ado, here is video blog number 2.

In the next few weeks we have a few shows coming up, including an acoustic show on April 30th at Bazaar Cafe, as well as a fundraiser at Hotel Nikko’s Rrazz Room for the AIDS/LifeCycle Event. AIDS/LifeCycle is a fully supported, 7-day bike ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles, and our Extended Family member Maggie Weiland will embark upon the trip in early June. All of the proceeds from the event will be used to provide critical services to people living with HIV and AIDS. To support the cause, The Family will donate 50% of the proceeds from our EP sales at the event. Both of these shows are free and we’d love to see you there!

We’re starting a bi-monthly video series shedding some light onto who we are, what we do, and how we do it. This first video explores the history and philosophy of the band, features extensive behind the scenes footage of the recording/production process, and, of course, shows our beloved Family members in action! Subscribe to our youtube channel in order to stay updated on our band, and stay tuned for more…

Thanks to everyone that showed up to check out our show at Infusion Lounge. We had a great turn out, and an amazing time. Click here to check out the photo stream from the event, or click here to check out a recent fans video post.  Also, if you’re interested in nabbing a free song or two, and/or checking out one of our upcoming private Family Room Shows, do add yourself to our newsletter (see below).

Last but definitely not least, a big thank you to everyone who has purchased our first release Songs From the Valley Below. We’ve gotten some amazing reviews so far and are thrilled to be receiving such wonderful responses from the public… so yes, thanks for the kind words!

Hope you’re all well and enjoying the start of spring!

Cheers!