Hi everyone it's Mark Stenson and this is a bonus episode of unlocking your world of

creativity and we wanted to share this episode with you right away because it's timely in the fact that we have an artist that I'll be airing an episode in a couple of weeks, but we've got a window of opportunity to help fund her work and we wanted to share it all with you. My guest is Angela Soff, an Americana

artist from the northwest of the US. And Angela, it's just so good to talk with you and I look forward to our episode in a couple of weeks,

but tell us what's happening right here right now.

Yes, thank you so much, Mark. It's so fun to be here. Yeah, I wanted to just let you guys know that I am I'm an Americana artist and based outside of

Seattle a little ways out of Seattle I am making a new album in Nashville Tennessee

I've this would be my first record in Tennessee, but I have

two previous records and the previous one won a bunch of awards and I'm really looking

forward to making this new one because the stories behind the songs are really based on you, on my fans, on people, everyday people who have sent me their stories and their hopes and their dreams and I've written songs wrapped around all of this and some of my own more current experiences but I took the songs to Nashville to my producer and the team agreed that we need to make this record even during a pandemic so today I launched my indigogogo campaign to pay for this album and I need to raise $20,000 in the next 30 days.

So thank you Mark for promoting this for me.

I'm really grateful and my entire team is so grateful so if you want to check out we have a bunch of perks different things different levels it's everything from just a CD or download for ten dollars all the way to you to making a music video with me and co-writing and things like that.

So there's quite a spread of options and if you wouldn't mind sharing, reaching more people

is definitely the way to get these sorts of things funded.

And I'm an independent artist completely so I don't have any sort of backing from the record label to foot the cost.

So thank you so much and I would love for you to follow me on

Instagram and Facebook. It's Angela Sof music.

Very good. And Angela, let's just imagine that 2,000 people heard this today.

Look, folks, let's get our checkbooks out.

A hundred dollars, now I don't want to make it sound like, you know, an easy task and that we'll have this thing done by the weekend but you know we're a creative family and everyone who I've talked to in this series and everyone who I know is listening to this podcast has a

creative dream and a vision but we come together and we help each other out and we

support each other so we might be a beta reader for an author, or we might spread the word about someone's photography exhibit,

or we might promote someone's portfolio when they're trying to get a new position.

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