<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489068968676_206778">Dear NEOPAL,<o:p id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489068968676_206779"></o:p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489068968676_206780"><o:p id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489068968676_206781"> </o:p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489068968676_206782">If you’ve seen me on Facebook, or read my two previous posts on this list, then I’m sure you know that
I’m running an<b> <a class="edited-link-editor" href="https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/my-new-cds-music-love#/" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489068968676_207028">Indiegogo campaign</a></b>. If not, I’m telling you now.<o:p id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489068968676_206783"></o:p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489068968676_206784"><o:p id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489068968676_206785"> </o:p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489068968676_206786">I’m running this campaign to support two music recording projects:
one, an album of satirical songs called “Ballad of the Bowling Green Massacre
and Other Alternative Folk Songs”, and the other titled “Only Love”, a
collection of new music in the vein of my previous CDs “Hallelujah Land” and “Metaphor”.<o:p id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489068968676_206787"></o:p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489068968676_206788"><o:p id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489068968676_206789"> </o:p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489068968676_206790">I don’t want you to
miss this opportunity to become a part of the team that will help me and my
team of talented musicians, writers, producers, and studio engineers bring new
music with important messages into the world. The world needs as much art and
beauty as it can get right now, and as artists, we are all doing that. This is one more way you can facilitate that.<o:p id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489068968676_206791"></o:p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489068968676_206792"><o:p id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489068968676_206793"> </o:p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489068968676_206794">I’m making a direct appeal to you on two fronts, really.
One, of course, is that <b id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489068968676_208614">I hope you’ll contribute</b> financially to one or both of
the projects. <a class="edited-link-editor" href="https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/my-new-cds-music-love#/">When you click on this link</a>, you’ll see several levels at which
you can contribute, starting at just $5.00. <o:p id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489068968676_206795"></o:p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489068968676_206796"><o:p id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489068968676_206797"> </o:p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489068968676_206798" dir="ltr">The other way in which you can help is by spreading the
word. <a class="edited-link-editor" href="https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/my-new-cds-music-love#/" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489068968676_208749"><b><i>Please share this link on your social media</i></b></a>. A personal note from you
helps to define the project, why you support it (financially or morally), and
why you think others should support it. <i id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489068968676_208748">(This is a great way to help support this project if you are unable to financially.)</i> If you are on, or run, any Facebook
pages, blogs, websites, chat groups, etc., please consider sharing it there,
too. Another way to help spread the word is old fashioned word-of-mouth. Tell
someone about it. In person. If you have an opportunity to speak to a group of
people, and you feel it would be appropriate, tell them about it (and make sure
they know where to find the link). And, yet another, and possibly very
effective way, is to make a direct appeal to a friend or acquaintance of yours. Reach out to one or two people personally and
describe to them why you think they’d enjoy this opportunity to support new
music.<o:p id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489068968676_206799"></o:p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489068968676_206800"><o:p id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489068968676_206801"> </o:p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489068968676_206802">If you’ve already gotten this message in another format,
or have already contributed, thank you, and I apologize for the repetition. <o:p id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489068968676_206803"></o:p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489068968676_206804"><o:p id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489068968676_206805"><font size="3" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489068968676_207326"> </font></o:p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489068968676_206806"><font size="3" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489068968676_207351">Thanks for reading. As Lyndon Johnson said, “<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489068968676_206807">Art is
a nation’s most precious heritage. For it is in our works of art that we reveal
to ourselves and to others the inner vision which guides us as a nation. And
where there is no vision, the people perish.</span>” We need art more than ever
right now. <o:p id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489068968676_206808"></o:p></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489068968676_206809"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489068968676_206810"><o:p id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489068968676_206811"><font size="3"> </font></o:p></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489068968676_206635" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489068968676_206648"><font size="3">
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