Happy October!

My news, in brief:

• I made a Patreon!

• I’m putting together a Look at the Harlequins! songbook!

• I’ll be releasing a new single in November!

Wow, what a month. So much smoke. It impacted my asthma and mental health, and the health/mental health of basically everyone I know. I feel very lucky to be breathing fresh air now. Folks in the U.S., please register to vote ASAP and vote like your life depends on it, because many people’s lives DO depend on it, and certainly future generations depend on it.

I finally made a Patreon! Patreon, for the uninitiated, is a platform that helps creators receive a monthly income from the people who support their work. Right now I have exactly one patron and my income is $5/month. My current goal is to get 10 patrons, at which point I’ll hire a copyist to help me put together songbooks for my older albums and EPs (Incredible Distance, A Troubled Piece of Fruit). There are plenty of rewards for becoming a patron, such as behind-the-scenes content and exclusive merch (a mug! a shirt! stickers!).

I’ll continue to send out these demos to you all for free, because I love you! But all the past demos I’ve sent out will only be available on Patreon.

One of the things I’ve been working on lately is a piano/vocals/chords songbook for Look at the Harlequins!, which I’m hoping to release by the end of the year. I’ll also be releasing a new single in November, and hopefully sheet music for that song as well.

I wanted to write a new song for this newsletter, but I got side-tracked by other projects (and the smoke). So this month I want to share the latest demo of “Sparkbird”! It’s the title track from my next album. A spark bird is the bird that starts your obsession with birds. Mine was a Western Tanager. You can read more about the song here.

Thank you so much for letting me share new songs with you, and the stories behind the songs. And remember, I always like hearing from you! You can email me, or reach out on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook.

Take care,
Stephan