Dear Backers,

By now, all of you should have received an email from us with the link to the final cut of Peacherine's Stage & Screen Spectacular. Please if you did not receive this link from us (check your email from November 1, 2020) please reach out to us privately at info@peacherineragtime.com and we will send you the final link! We are very proud of this final show, and are thankful to all of you for your part in making this program what it turned out to be. 

Please note: Other backer rewards, such as behind-the-scenes video access, digital downloads of PRSO tracks, etc., will be delivered in the next week or so. Please keep an eye on your email as we deliver these to you over the next week or so.

Again, thank you for your support in making this program a reality!

-Andrew Greene

Please watch the video enclosed with this update to learn more about the behind-the-scenes process for bringing Peacherine's Stage and Screen Spectacular to life!

WE DID IT! We raised the funds necessary to complete Peacherine's Stage and Screen Spectacular! Thank you everyone for your support and well wishes. This truly means a lot to the Peacherine team, and we can't wait to finalize everything and have you see the finished product soon.

So, what's been going on behind the scenes?

Well, first we'll let you know why we've been quiet this past week... Peacherine is now represented by an agency! We were approached about joining the roster of Harmony Artists, a leading arts management agency, and after some negotiations and back-and-forth conversations, we decided to join them. Having an agent has been a goal for the ensemble to take some of the booking work off of our director, Andrew, and to build the orchestra's season of performances. We look forward to working with them to get the ensemble to more places around the world.

Earlier this month, Peacherine wrapped on some of the pre-production audio work for this program, and we were able to secure a recording location for the final video shoot: Salisbury University in Maryland. Salisbury has been a second home to the orchestra (we've performed there seven times since 2015) and we're thrilled that we'll be able to use their Holloway Hall, a 1926 performance space, for our filming. Musician contracts are being finalized, and we're currently negotiating with a director to bring on board to bring our vision to life for this program. Last night, director Andrew Greene spent 14 hours drafting up the scripts for the run of the show, dialogue from the director, our vocalists, etc., and a general list of camera angles for how we want to film everything. We're negotiating the final rates between Arts Laureate, the filming company, and are having production meetings to get everything settled and finalized. 

So lots of great things happening! Our filming date is set for mid-September, and assuming all goes well, we should have the video to share with everyone sometime mid to late October. We're continuing to work on all fronts for this, so stay tuned and we'll keep you posted. For the rewards on various backer levels, we'll be planning to send all the rewards once the film is ready. If you donated $250 or above for the zoom video, we will be emailing you tonight to set dates for this.

Thanks again for your support!
Andrew Greene and the musicians of the Peacherine Ragtime Society Orchestra

Hi there backers,

Holy heck, 1 week left to go and we are just over 80% funded! THANK YOU to all of you who believe in us and are making this program a reality. We truly appreciate your support!

Today we were in the studio doing the audio recording for the silent film score, Papa's Boy from 1927 starring Lloyd Hamilton. We played our orchestral score, historically authentic to the time period, and had our drummer, Joey Antico, put down his sound effects track. Things are coming together quite well! We're also currently working on settling the final venue for the video recording, and will hopefully have an update about that very soon!

We can't wait to share more with you about our Stage and Screen Spectacular. More details will be incoming soon!

Best wishes,
Andrew Greene and the musicians of the Peacherine Ragtime Society Orchestra

Hi folks,

Thanks again for your support of Peacherine's Stage and Screen Spectacular! We are humbled by your generosity, and thankful for your donations to help make this program a reality.

As of today, we are 40% funded through Fractured Atlas! We have just over two weeks left in our campaign to raise the remaining amount. Please if you have not already done so, spread the link for our campaign to your friends/neighbors/fellow music and silent film fans... your assistance is greatly appreciated in getting the word out!

For those of you who donated at the $250 tier or above, we will be arranging some zoom calls for the next week or two, and will email you directly to get them set up.

We've sent out all of the music to musicians for this project, and we've finalized the agreement between the recording company and Peacherine. We actually begin recording the project next week!

We have a lot of great music to record, including selections by George Gershwin, Scott Joplin, and as we mentioned before, a brand new ragtime-style cover of Queen's Don't Stop Me Now. These pop covers are our most popular offerings in live shows and online (for somewhat obvious reasons), and we're going to continue to produce 1-2 of these each year or so moving forward. Our mission is still the same though: to preserve, record, and share culturally important American music with an international audience. These modern pop covers allow us to reach more of an audience, and use it as a gateway to discover our music, and learn more about where the melodies we know and love today come from, and how their art-forms originated during the first few decades of the early 20th century. Here's a preview of 1st violin part for when we record Queen's Don't Stop Me Now.

We'll have much more to share in the near future. In the meanwhile, as noted above, please continue to share the word about our campaign with your friends! Thanks again for the support, we can't wait to bring this finished program to you soon.

Best wishes,
Andrew Greene and the musicians of the Peacherine Ragtime Society Orchestra

Hi there folks,
We are three days into our campaign, and have raised 1/8th of the remaining funds needed for Peacherine's Stage and Screen Spectacular! Thank you so much to everyone that has made their tax-deductible donation thus far. We're SO excited to be bringing you this brand new Peacherine offering to you very soon!

We've been doing a lot of stuff behind-the-scenes this week. Over the past few days we've been coordinating the audio recording dates, working with Arts Laureate and the Peacherine crew. We've also been working on finalizing musical selections, prepping them for the musicians to begin rehearsing. Interviewing potential directors to bring on board for the project, also working to schedule some dates to tour the venues that we'll be recording the video in... lots of great progress!

Let's quickly tell you about the first piece we'll be recording on the program, our "opener", which as far as we can tell will mark the first time this particular arrangement has been recorded. In 1915, Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake teamed up for the first time as songwriters, and came up with "It's All Your Fault", which was released in Baltimore by the Maryland Music Publishing Company. It was featured at the Maryland Theater in Baltimore by Sophie Tucker. The arrangement here, in "one step" tempo (quick, upbeat) also features a piece by Herman Federoff, "When The Girl of Your Dreams Dreams Of You" (originally written in 1914). We're thrilled to be recording this arrangement and bringing it back to life, 105 years after it was originally published. We thought it would be a great tribute to Eubie, as well as a great tie in with our Baltimore-based musicians. See below to check out the original 1st violin part.

There will be a lot more updates coming! Please continue to share our campaign with your friends/family/colleagues. As we said in our intro video, the momentum is there, and the finish line is in sight. Your support will help push us over the top to make this happen. 

Best wishes,
Andrew Greene