Help us launch the bus!
- Mar 13
- 3 min read
This audio LOVE LETTER is best experienced by clicking the video here:
OUR NEXT SHOW
March 21st 7-11pm
Quilcene Lantern
7360 Center Rd
Quilcene, WA 98506
[Transcript is below if you prefer to read.]
I'm so inspired, y'all, by the response to these love letters. The recent one about my father really impacted some people. In a way, it also continued to amplify the healing that is going on for me personally, as well as the waves of creativity, inspiration, and ideas that are pouring through right now.
This is especially true as we book gigs for the season. We've been developing new relationships with bookers and venues, and we have a lot of exciting shows coming up, including the Spring Equinox!
We're going to be playing at the Quilcene Lantern with Whump. It’s going to be an amazing show and our first time ever playing there. It's a huge barn with a professional lighting rig, and it can fit a lot of people.
We're going to have a big dance party there in collaboration with Whump, the amazing funk band from Sequim and Port Angeles that I collaborated with the first year I was living out here. We played some wild shows at the Palindrome and the American Legion—we even did a New Year's Eve set. Probably my favorite performance that Whump and Abracadabra collaborated on was the Farmers' Market with Kommuna Lux, a Ukrainian band that was touring through. The three bands combined forces for a 20-minute jam; that's one of the most fun improv sets I've ever done.
Also, the bus is going to be launching, as well as our album. I feel like a lot of things that have been building for years are finally coming to fruition, and I can really feel them being born right now. We're currently building and painting the bus to look like a giant caterpillar. Eventually, she will sprout wings and become a butterfly. What a beautiful symbol of transformation and love in the world!
I love the spectacle of this art car pulling up to places like Adams Street Park in Port Townsend. We've even been invited to play at the Field Hall in Port Angeles to bring the bus there and create these public shows. In a way, we're creating a new venue out here—a venue for the people, in the street, that can go deep into the forest or into the parks. It gives us so much freedom to create art in nature and in community.
The bus truly is only going to exist with the support of the community. We have volunteers joining forces to paint and build, and we're also creating fundraisers and asking for support right now to complete this beautiful dream I've been envisioning for years.
Now, through the "magic technology" of Abracadabra, which is, of course, that we "Create what we speak," comes the sharing part. We can have these amazing visions in our heads, and when we share them, they amplify, grow and become real.
We are going to be selling tickets to ride the bus!
We're hoping that if we can sell enough tickets for a two-hour ride, we can fundraise the money necessary to complete it. Then, everyone who pitched in can get on and ride around with us! So, if you would like to buy a ticket to ride on the new Abracadabra trip here in Washington State, we are offering bus passes, which will be a card that we’ll mail to you. When the bus is completed this summer—which is our goal—we will pick you up and take you on a ride!
You can buy these tickets on our website. In the past, we've done a lot of crowdfunding campaigns, but honestly, I am more interested in having our community connect with us directly through our website because it's stable. It's not like all these apps, platforms, and social media sites that are constantly changing and adding fees.
We're shifting a lot of our content and activity onto our website, including building a video gallery and a poster gallery. You can go there right now to purchase a ticket or donate. Thank you so much for supporting us. We cannot wait to get on the roof of this bus and start singing to the heavens!
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