WE'VE MADE IT! THANK YOU FROM THE BOTTOM OF OUR HEARTS!
Wow what an incredible experience this has been. This campaign has really been so lovingly supported and as we live for the music and playing for dancers, that's just the best feeling to have! And all this before we're even in the same country! Amazing.

Now what happens?
Well, it's not over til the pleasingly plump lady sings.. so we've got some stretch goals for you. This album is going to be a quartet - Hetty + Gordon %20 bass and drums. But with more funds we can expand and get some of the best horn players in NY onboard. This really would be the icing on the cake for sure. So here's the info:

$9,300 stretch goal : Brass with class. We can't give away all our secrets, but we have a great great player lined up in the wings for this one!

$10,000 stretch goal : Two horns and some truly swinging lines to get your pulses racing and your feet flying. Nothing adds excitement like the interplay of two swinging horns! Lets do it!

$10,650 stretch goal : The best rhythm guitarist in town? No problem. Lets beef it up and add the energy and warmth of strings to this recording.

$12,000 stretch goal : Not only will we be recording, but for this goal we'll have a photographer and videographer on site, and will be documenting the recording for your viewing pleasure!

THANK YOU AGAIN FOR YOUR SUPPORT, YOUR ENERGY, YOUR LOVELY SMILING FACES, YOUR FRIENDSHIP, AND FOR BRINGING THE MUSIC TO LIFE WITH DANCE!
YOU'RE THE BEST! WE CAN'T WAIT FOR YOU TO HEAR THE FINAL PRODUCT!

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Would you like to dance?
We’re asking for your help to raise money to make a sparkling album of glorious swing jazz that will get you smiling and dancing! This will be a continuation of the fun that happened when we got to play with each other in Canberra this year, and it will be a thank you to the lovely dancers that make this music even more special than it already is. Gordon Webster meets Hetty Kate, America meets Australia, along the lines of Peggy Lee and George Shearing.. you get the drift. We want this to sound beautiful, look beautiful, and be something you can dance to and enjoy in your record collection for years to come.

Serendipitously we both know, love and work with brilliant engineer Michael Perez Cisneros (we only just found out about the connection! small world!) and if this campaign is successful, this album will be recorded, mixed and mastered by him at his studio in Brooklyn NY this October. We’ll be recording, mixing, mastering, designing, pressing, printing and creating. And when this album is complete we’ll be bringing it to Australia (and other places) with a 2014 tour to knock your bobby socks off. We can’t wait to share the swinging’ love!

How Does This Work?
Pozible (like Kickstarter in the US) is all about the power of community support. We can come to you first, rather than coming to you last! So we’re asking you to please get behind this ambitious project and help bring it to life by donating whatever amount you are able to. In return we have created a range of rewards to show you our gratitude and appreciation! Creating this dance album will not be possible without you and your generosity. Your contributions will only be processed if we meet our target amount, and should we fall short even by $1 we will not receive anything at all! So please donate if you can and help spread the word.

Where Will The Money Go?
We have given careful consideration to the amount we are aiming to raise and have kept the figure as low as we can. As creating a quality album costs an eye-widening amount of money, it’s a fine balance between cutting costs and compromising on quality! Anyone can record an album in their lounge-room, but not all of them sound brilliant. All the money raised through our campaign will go towards hiring the very best swing musicians in NY, two days of studio time, piano tuning, our sound engineer and producer, mixing and mastering costs and printing / pressing the final product. If we raise over our goal amount these extra funds will go towards more post production and promotion of the album.

Musician Fees = $3000
Recording = (engineer/studio/equpiment) $1850
Mixing/Mastering = $2000
Printing/Pressing = $1650
Total = $8500

Who are you guys?
Well a bit of cyber-stalking never went astray (go on, don’t be shy)
Gordon Webster plays piano - www.gordonwebsterswings.com
and Hetty Kate sings - www.hettykate.com

Ok, so what’s this all about?
Vintage voiced Hetty Kate is a British/Australian singer who’s been singing in Melbourne since 2006 and since then has spent time traveling all over the globe performing with all sorts of jazz bands for all sorts of people. A self confessed raconteur she's a natural born story-teller, swings hard, and loves a clever lyric and a syncopated beat. She’s survived rabid Frenchmen whilst singing in Hanoi, she’s survived rabid monkeys whilst singing in Darjeeling, she’s survived rabid musicians whilst singing in Melbourne. Hetty’s now back living in Australia and sings with her own bands, as well as regularly guesting with some toe-tapping combo's around the country. Often compared to a young Peggy Lee or Doris Day, she loves to swing and sing for a packed dance-floor!

This year some dancers asked Hetty to sing with a mysterious traveling pianist.. a pianist who’s very name can get swing dancer’s feet tapping and faces smiling.. a pianist who fills a room, not only with music, not only with people, but with happiness. Hetty had heard rumours and excited whispers about this musical figure, but had never met him before. She was intrigued!

Gordon Webster is a jazz pianist originally from the fair nation of Canada, and now happily living in (the concrete jungle, where dreams are made of, there's nothing you can't do, it's) New York. He’s been entrancing dancers for years with his musicality and swing feeling. Not only is he a very fine pianist, he can also cut a rug with the best of them, and intuitively knows what's going to get that dance floor humming.. As well as regularly traveling all over the US and the world to perform for dancers, when at home Gordon leads a legendary weekly residency at Mona’s on Tuesday nights in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. An honorary Aussie (he loves Vegemite), Gordon sits in a plane for hours upon hours, enduring bad movies and risking DVT so he can visit each year and play for dancers on the east coast.

He’d heard about Hetty and her swingin’ singing, but had never met her before either.. curiouser and curiouser!

And at Blues Before Sunrise in Melbourne and Jumptown Jam in Canberra they met, they laughed, they poured over song lists, laughed a lot and made some seriously great music! So much fun was had that they were secretly hatching plans to play more in the future during the first set break. And so here we are..

Keep in touch
So please climb aboard, click a reward and pledge a contribution. Please support any way you can and share this with your friends. Help us create an international dance collaborative swing / blues album full of music goodness and we promise to bring this to your doorstep in 2014.

Special thanks to the people who have been involved in us meeting, and the project so far: Swing Patrol (Melbourne), Jumptown Swing (Canberra), Michael Perez-Cisneros.


Supported by Swing Patrol, visit www.swingpatrol.com to learn about Australia's passionate dancing scene and find out how to get involved (and learn to dance) near you!