My next online show is one week from tonight with a replay on April 3rd! Remember, one ticket gets you access to BOTH shows, so you can watch both or choose the one that fits your schedule better, and you’ll be eligible to win door prizes! Your tickets & tips will help me support not one but THREE causes dear to my heart: my FL Phoenix Festivals community, ??humanitarian aid, and the folx whose lives were affected by the March 19 shooting in my hometown (nobody wants their hometown in the news for something so awful, but here we are).
The org helping victims of the shooting in my hometown on March 19 www.deltaneyo.com
Humanitarian relief for those fleeing Ukraine, through the Basel School of Business tinyurl.com/BaselSchool
My festival community in Florida who had their event canceled earlier this month. I’m supporting them so they can rise from those ashes, as they have done for me. www.phoenixfestivals.com/about
Hi, everyone! I’ve got lots of news and links to share with you today! Here goes.
We have a Swiss-based cousin whose colleagues are taking a long trip today, March 4, to get supplies to the Polish-Ukrainian border. If you’d like to support what they’re doing, use this link to donate: https://tinyurl.com/bsbschoolfund More information here.
My musical colleague Daniel Katsük (you may also recognize his voice-over chops in Dragonball Z or Full Metal Alchemist!) released a book of children’s stories on my birthday! It will soon be available to order everywhere, but for now, here it is on Amazon: https://tinyurl.com/mysticallakesbook
Bandcamp Friday is BACK all day today, March 4! Please feel free to share my music link around & download anything you might have missed. I’ve got everything I can afford set to “name your price”, and if you spend money on me, I’ll get a slightly larger share from midnight to midnight Pacific. Thank you!
I don’t have an online show this month, BUT I’ve got one live appearance on March 18, my first of the year, an outdoor event down in Florida. Please let me know if you’re planning to be there! More info here: http://sjtucker.com/tour All my thanks to Phoenix Festivals for rescheduling to bring me back, after all this time, since the 2020 event was postponed! (Also, if anyone knows any good swimmable springs to visit near Bell, Florida, please let me know! Have mermaid tail, will travel!). It doesn’t look like this event will have a virtual option for those unable to attend in person, but rest assured that I am still advocating for as many witchy events and cons as possible to do this from now on.
Yesterday, March 3, actor and puppeteer Melissa Stanton released a new short film which features my song, “Witch’s Rune”! I’ve added it to my soundtrack placements video playlist for your convenience: click here to watch!
I made a new playlist on my YouTube channel for TV & film projects that have licensed my music, so you know it has to start with my favorite modern fantasy series, STROWLERS! Thanks to the #Strowlers team for making their content available & free on YouTube for the first time!
The pilot episode of Strowlers features two songs of mine and they’re also woven into leitmotif throughout the score: “Burn Me Out” and “Mirror Self”, from my Burn Me Out EP. There’s more Strowlers content than what I have on the playlist, and even more to come. If y’all believe in magic, I need you to see this.
Hi, folx! I’ve got only one online show this month, Sunday February 6 at 3pm Central, shared with Renée Janski! Just counting down the hours until showtime now, and I’d love for you to join us! Here’s the ticket link! If you miss it, I’ll offer the video for purchase later at Online Concert Thing.
Bandcamp Friday is TODAY, February 4, and I’ve re-released some old live tracks for the occasion! Grab them at my store here! You can listen before you purchase. All artists will receive an extra 15% of each sale from Midnight to Midnight Pacific time! Thank you all for your support!
Last month I was interviewed on a new-to-me podcast called Shadow Transmission, curated by my new friends in the underground goth & darkwave music scene of Central Arkansas- I didn’t even know we had one of those, neither the scene nor the podcast! Anyhow, I think the interview and the episode turned out great! DJ Hollow is an excellent host and I really enjoyed our conversation. Listen here or wherever you enjoy podcasts.
PSA: As far as I know, it came to the attention of just about the whole internet on February 1st that one purported NFT marketing website claimed it was offering NFT’s (art or other media sold exclusively via cryptocurrency) involving music by just about every musician you can think of, even those of us out here chugging along under our own power, without a record label & with the help of your support, like me. Since it hadn’t yet come up until now, I just want to officially let you know that, unless you hear otherwise directly from me, any NFT site or product claiming to be involved with my music is lying. Please take care and don’t get scammed. I am taking steps to protect my work from this kind of presumptive near-theft, and I will be keeping an eye on the situation, along with my musician’s union, my digital distributor, and my legal counsel.
Sorry to get so serious there at the end! Thank you for sticking with me in this new year. I hope that you are well and safe, and that you have everything you need right now!
It’s been 13 years as of yesterday, January 13, since the Ravens in the Library anthology & the online #SaveOurSooj benefits, together with all the brilliant makers and musicians and authors and artists who make it happen, came to my rescue. I go days at a time without thinking about the scar, but not a day goes by that I’m not grateful.
2009 was before the ACA, let alone before we were all so accustomed to crowdfunding as its own thing. I was an indie musician with no health coverage, and the surgery I had to have could have pulled me out of my career and into a mountain of medical debt. But my community wasn’t having that.
Come see the online show tonight and help me celebrate! Get tickets here!
If you read this before Midnight Pacific time TONIGHT (Sunday), and you haven’t yet had a chance to back and pre-order the Red Shoes novel, today is your last chance to do so before the funding campaign closes.
Depending on the final total, author Phil may be able to commission a new song from me to accompany the book. That’s what we’re hoping for. Take a look here, and please take part if you can.
I did a reading of one of my favorite parts during my concert last month. Watch it as a separate clip here. The book is badass, and I recommend it highly.
Firstly, your ticket of $5 or more helps me help my hometown food bank, the Dumas Food Pantry, where my mother volunteers every single week. Thanks for that! Secondly, now that we’ve sold over 50 tickets in advance, (56 as of this writing!) I’m adding door prizes! Everyone with a ticket is eligible to win. The admins and I will draw winners at random during the concert.
I’ve unlocked a gorgeous tiger’s eye pendulum from my personal collection as our first door prize. You won’t believe the flash on this thing. At 60 & at 75 tickets sold, I’ll unlock a 1oz jar of loose incense donated by Phae’s Fantasy in OR (and I’ll contact the winners to check on your allergies & sensitivities just to be safe). At 100 tickets, I’ll unlock a stunning sterling silver dragon goddess pendant donated by Celtic Knot Works/Deva Designs in AZ!
This next part we only just announced on Tuesday. Want a NEW, EXCLUSIVE SONG download from Heather Dale & me, featuring both of us + Ben Deschamps? Everyone who get tickets for my Sunday show AND Heather’s Friday show will get a new, unreleased mp3 from us! We’ve been recording together remotely, sending files and sound recordings back and forth. Super fun! Go here & add both shows to your cart so we can send you what we made: http://onlineconcertthing.com
I’ve been filming outdoors this week for the Sunday concert, as the weather allows, and I’ve got some costume surprises I’ve been saving for you. I threatened to sing at least one song while wearing my new mermaid tail once we reached 50 tickets. Now we have, so it’s on! Wish me luck flipping my fin around for the first time!
One more thing to get excited about. I hope you’ll all pre-order and back Satyr Phil Brucato’s new novel, Red Shoes. It’s become a project dear to my heart. The POV character is a young dancer with as much sense as attitude, for the most part, and her story is one packed with magic and intensity, no less badass for staying vulnerable and, ultimately, human. I’ll be sharing a brief reading from one of my very favorite parts during my concert, with the author’s permission. Phil has been my friend since my first year on the road, so I admit my bias. But I’m telling you, this story and its treatment of music, magic, grief, and personal growth has a lot to offer. I truly believe it would’ve resonated with me whether or not Phil and I had ever met.
Baring my soul about #RedShoes in our video interview, with moderator Kwiley (bottom left), author Phil (top left), and audiobook narrator/producer Ivy Tara Blair (bottom right)!
Next month, remember that I’ll give a Midwinter Music online show on December 20th at 9pm Central. Video will be available for purchase afterwards for those who can’t make it or will be fast asleep at that time, time zones being the tricky things they are. Also, everyone who pledges to my Patreon, regardless of amount, gets access to all of my online show video recordings. Join us over there if you wish.
I’m launching this song in tandem with the pre-order and Indiegogo launch of Phil Brucato’s novel, Red Shoes, in part because Phil borrowed the song for the YouTube trailer he made to announce the book!
If pre-orders of Red Shoes go very well through IndieGoGo, there’s a chance I’ll be invited to help create an entire tie-in record for the book! It’s an urban fantasy novel with magic, dance, music, and several different flavors of badassery, and I do recommend it. Pre-order and back it here: tinyurl.com/GetRedShoes
Leslie Hudson is offering a discography bundle for Bandcamp Friday, including her lovely new release, Hemlock Honey and Crows: https://lesliehudson.bandcamp.com/
Your ticket of $5 or more will help me support Mid South Immigration Advocates this time around! https://miamemphis.org/
I streamed a bit of rehearsal to my YouTube channel Thursday afternoon! Watch the replay here if you like: https://youtu.be/DRfxboeYMaI
We’ve sold 74 tickets as of my writing this post. We unlocked our first door prize at 50 tickets, I’ll unlock a second one at 75, and I’ll unlock a beautiful 3rd one, a jewelry piece from our friend Paletree Arcana, at 100 tickets! Paletree Arcana artist Bianca Havens shares a birthday with my little son who just turned three. She’s having a birthday sale on her website right now: http://www.paletreearcana.com
^that kyanite, tho!
^my pumpkins
Other friends and sponsors of this concert who’ve offered door prizes and new merchandise:
Act one of the show will be a new, 100% live performance of my favorite Red Riding Hood spinoff, Gramma Wolf’s Garden! Thanks to my buddy Phil Brucato for performance rights to his story. I’ll perform this magical tale with songs of mine interspersed, and then after a break, I’ll play a whole list of MORE spooky songs, including a special live-only parody in honor of spooky season towards the end of the concert! (Hint: it’s a Dolly Parton tune like you’ve never heard it before. For complex copyright reasons, the parody won’t be part of the recorded video I’ll make available after the stream ends, so be sure to catch the live show if you can.)
On Halloween morning, I’ll also be a guest musician at UU Fayetteville’s online Samhain service, which begins at 11:00am Central. I’ll be sharing several of my original songs which fit the Samhain theme, including some unreleased pieces. Visit https://www.uufayetteville.org/ to join the service via Zoom.
THE BEAUTIFUL LESLIE HUDSON will release a new record on Samhain called Hemlock Honey & Crows! I recorded djembe drum for “Wicked Sings”, and a whole cast of musical characters contributed tracks of their own to boost Leslie’s own brilliant songwriting and evocative sound. More info: https://music.lesliehudson.com/
HEXENFEST LITE will stream on November 6th at Online Concert Thing, featuring Sharon Knight & Winter and Tuatha Dea! Don’t miss it.
THE MIGHTY GINGER DOSS will release her new song, “RUNE” on November 1st! You’ll hear my voice in the mix as one of the Norns along with my sisters Andrea Sumers and Lynda Millard. “RUNE” is Ginger’s musical telling of how Odin learned the wisdom of the Runes. Get ready, because it’s gonna pull you right in: https://gingerdoss.com/
FOR YULE in December, I’ll give a Midwinter Music online show December 20th at 9pm Central. Expect my Solstice songs, my Mari Lwyd and Krampus songs, and more. Ticket link coming soon! Mark your calendars!
IN THE WORKS
Recording songs for the Rootless record proceeds little by little, and I expect to keep moving forward on new projects at my toddler-mom-snail’s pace over the winter. Thank you all for being part of the journey as I go. Remember that you can pledge to my Patreon if you like, to get access to sneak peeks of new & unreleased recordings, chord charts for my songs, and archived video of all my online shows: https://www.patreon.com/sjtuckermusic And I’m always here to ship CDs and books to you (weird USPS stuff notwithstanding) from my own little house when you make an order at http://music.sjtucker.com
Those of you who’ve been streaming my music via Spotify or your other favorite streaming service, THANK YOU. I do get weekly income from this via my digital distributor, which has been CD Baby from the beginning. Thank you for believing in what I do! I wish each of you joy and magic for All Hallows.
