Help Kenny & Claire make a full-length album of rewritten hymns, original songs, and well-loved hymns PLUS a Christmas EP!

Hi! We’re Kenny & Claire. We are a husband and wife worship duo based in Nashville, TN. We are passionate about theologically rich and doctrinally sound music for the church. We are excited to share with you about our TWO new projects and how you can be a part!

We’ve divided this fundraising campaign into 3 goals:

Goal 1 ($37,000): Record a full-length album

of rewritten hymns, original songs based on Scripture or deeply rooted in Scripture, along with well-loved hymns.

Goal 2 ($47,000): Record a 5 song Christmas EP

Once the funds for the full-length album are raised, each additional $2,000 will go towards recording a Christmas single. Once the funds for 5 singles are raised ($10,000), we will release a Christmas EP!

Goal 3 ($60,000): Album Promotion

(aka THE ULTIMATE VINYL STRETCH GOAL!)

Once the funds for both the full-length album and Christmas EP are raised, we’ll use additional funds to help the music reach audiences across the world! When we make it to $60,000 donors who have pledged at or above the $100:ULTIMATE MERCH PACKAGE will receive a copy of our new album on vinyl!!

THE FULL-LENGTH ALBUM

Our first goal is to create a full-length album of theologically rich and doctrinally sound songs we’ve composed, lesser-known hymns that we’ve rewritten, along with our renditions of well-loved hymns.

THE STORY BEHIND THE ALBUM

In 2021 we released our first album, Are You Weary, a 5 song EP of theologically rich and doctrinally sound hymns that have mostly fallen out of use in today’s church. We rewrote those hymns into new songs so that the truths within them would continue to serve the church. Since Are You Weary’s release, we've traveled throughout the United States to share these songs directly with churches and other venues. We’ve intentionally tried to encourage congregational singing using familiar songs while we shared our original music. We’ve also served churches by leading conferences and seminars on Worship Theology, as well as songwriting.

We have been blown away by the response to Are You Weary and count it a great honor that these songs have been able to come alongside so many. During our concerts we have often shared our story of how Kenny’s experience with a brain tumor, a genetic disorder, and an autoimmune disease have greatly affected our lives. We’ve found great comfort from songs that point our hearts towards the direct promises of God's Word. This is a huge reason why we’re passionate about making songs that help listeners internalize God Word and point towards hope in Jesus.

THE CHRISTMAS EP

We’ve shared an annual Christmas Tour for the past three years but don’t have any of our Christmas music recorded. We’d love to make an EP of Christ-centered Christmas hymns as well as music that we’ve written.

OUR TEAM

We are thrilled to work with Grammy-award winning engineer and producer, Mitch Dane, to record both the full-length album and Christmas EP! Mitch has worked with an incredible line of artists including Jars of Clay, JJ Heller, Jenny & Tyler, The Young Fables, and many more. Mitch is already working to help us put together a team for this project. We are honored to get to work with him!

GIVESENDGO

We’ve decided to use the fundraising platform GiveSendGo to raise money for our project. GiveSendGo is unique in that it is a faith-based fundraising platform and they do not charge creators for their services. That means that 100% of donations goes toward our work (minus the normal transaction fees). For every donation given to us through GiveSendGo there is an option to give an additional amount to support their platform.

THE BUDGET

(45%) Full Length Album Production, Mixing, and Mastering

(15%) Christmas Album Production

(19%) Fundraising Campaign Rewards and Shipping

(18%) Music Promotion, Marketing, and Videos

(3%) Payment Processing Fees

TOTAL: $60,000

HOW YOU CAN BE A PART

We are well aware that $60,000 is a huge goal! We are independent musicians and do not have a record label backing us. That is where your help greatly comes in. If you believe in our work and in these projects, would you help us by:

1) Praying.

Would you pray that the Lord would be honored and glorified in our pursuits? That the Name of Jesus would be lifted up and His Gospel spread? Would you pray for provision? Would you pray to see how you can join us in this fundraiser through giving and spreading the word?

2) Sharing.

We’re grateful for any way that you can help share! Some ideas are sharing a post, reel, or video on Social Media, sharing with your church (and asking if you can hang up flyers), sharing in a local coffee shop or business (and hanging a flyer ), and any other creative way that you can think of!

3) Giving.

As you are able, we would be honored if you would choose to give towards our project.

REWARDS

As a thank you for your support we would love to send you a reward package in exchange for your gift.

IMPORTANT:

To claim your reward package, please specify in the “comments” section which package that you would like to receive during checkout.

Please note that some rewards have limited availability.

Please send a message to booking@kennyandclaire.com with any questions concerning rewards.

$5 OR MORE : JOIN THE JOURNEY PACKAGE

This tier is for those who want to join us on this journey and support our project without receiving a reward. We are so very grateful for your generosity and in return still want to bless you with

a Digital Download of our EP, "Are You Weary"

Behind-the-scenes access to the making of our album

Our eternal gratitude

$10: THE DIGITAL DOWNLOAD PACKAGE

Advanced Digital Download of the NEW Album

You’ll also receive an Advanced Digital Download of the Christmas EP If we reach our stretch goal of $47,000!

JOIN THE JOURNEY PACKAGE

$25: THE ALBUM PACKAGE

A CD of the new full-length album

Kenny & Claire Sticker

DIGITAL DOWNLOAD PACKAGE

$50: SUPER-SOFT T-SHIRT PACKAGE

Super Soft Album T-Shirt

ALBUM PACKAGE

$75: COZY MUG PACKAGE

Handmade Pottery Mug (crafted in Salt Lake City, Utah made exclusively for this campaign!)

SUPER-SOFT T-SHIRT PACKAGE

$100: ULTIMATE MERCH PACKAGE

Lyric Print

COZY MUG PACKAGE

If we reach the 60K stretch goal all donors at this tier and above will receive a copy of our new full-length album on vinyl!

$200: ONLINE SESSION PACKAGE

A one-hour personalized online meeting with Kenny and Claire: This can be an online music lesson for beginning voice, piano, or guitar OR a songwriting session (where we review one of your songs and offer personalized feedback plus songwriting tips)

ULTIMATE MERCH PACKAGE

$300: HYMN LOVER’S PACKAGE

A recording of your favorite hymn (written before 1928) made with our home studio equipment.

ULTIMATE MERCH PACKAGE

$500: NASHVILLE PACKAGE

Receive a Kenny & Claire Hatch Show Print (made in Nashville, TN!)

THE HYMN LOVER’S PACKAGE

$1000: HANG OUT PACKAGE

We’ll send you our favorite bag of coffee or hot tea (you choose) along with an extra mug and we’ll schedule a 1 hour online hang out with you and a friend to talk about whatever you’d like!

THE NASHVILLE PACKAGE

$2000: CONCERT PACKAGE (7 out of 10 available)

Concert by Kenny & Claire (travel and lodging costs are additional). This could be at your church, in your living room, backyard, local coffee shop, etc.- we’d love to share music with you!!

ULTIMATE MERCH PACKAGE

$3500: PATRON PACKAGE (limit 5)

1 Day Conference for your church, friends, or event ( on the subjects of Worship Theology, Worship Leadership or Songwriting)

CONCERT PACKAGE

$5000: PRIVATE CONCERT PACKAGE (7 of 8 available)

Personalized Private Concert in your home by Kenny & Claire for you and your friends (Travel and Lodging costs are additional) with 10 cds to give away. Kenny will personally brew you and your guests our favorite cup of coffee or hot tea. We’ll have an evening of song, stories, and great conversation!

THE NASHVILLE PACKAGE

$10,000: THE PRODUCER PACKAGE (3 of 4 available)

You are practically our producer and we are blown away by your support!

Join us in the studio (in person or virtually) for a day! We’d love to hang out and take you to lunch! (You’ll need to provide your own travel and lodging).

PRIVATE CONCERT PACKAGE

PATRON PACKAGE (for yourself or given as a gift)

HOW TO RECEIVE REWARDS

If you donate through GiveSendGo please specify which reward tier you would like to receive in the comments section upon checkout.

DONATIONS

Donations can be accepted via GiveSendGo or through a check. Please email booking@kennyandclaire.com if you would like to send a check.

TIMELINE

Our ULTIMATE GOAL is to raise a total of $60,000 to make a full length album, a 5-Song Christmas EP, and to spread the word about the projects (plus if we make it to $60k everyone at the $100 and up tier receives a vinyl record of the new album!)! We are scheduled to record the full-length album in March when we meet our minimum fundraising goal of $37,000! We are expecting to release the full-length album AND Christmas EP in 2024! We’ll keep you updated along the way!

THANK YOU!

Thank you for considering how you can help us make a full-length album and a Christmas EP! We are grateful for your prayers, encouragement, support, and willingness to join us in making these projects. We can’t wait to make a full-length album AND a Christmas EP with you!

Love, Kenny & Claire

RISKS

There are risks to fundraising an album independently. In the event that we are not able to reach our minimum funding goal of $37,000, we will be unable to fulfill the rewards as promised. We will do our best to communicate all timelines and any delays in reward fulfillment. Feel free to reach out to booking@kennyandclaire.com with any questions that you may have.

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