Norine’s fan fund raiser

Norine Braun raised $4,280 from fans to continue her work on her album. Now that is so cool. We just hope such fan fund raisers could be more organised. Of course, Karmafan is an attempt to help artists organise these fund raisers as well.

Norine used the idea of pre sale signed CDs and selling pre-releases. I’d like to talk about another idea for such a fund raiser.

Imagine a gig where musicians play some new music and ask for support to help take the record into studio. The patron could be implicitly promised a freely available download when the recording is complete.

To make such a scenario a reality we at Karmafan built the idea of sending money to artists via SMS text messages. So you are at a gig, you like the music and send an SMS sending money to the artist. You know that when the recording is complete you can download it for free anyway.

We think such a solution is not far from being adopted, and we are providing a very useful tool for musicians to make this a reality. We are patiently waiting for musicians to come forward and try our suggested solution. If you are a musician and want to talk more about these ideas, do contact us, or leave a comment here.

Thanks to Victor from Four Stones for pointing out the story about Norine. It surely inspired this blog entry.