{"id":79941,"date":"2016-09-21T13:00:06","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T13:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/?p=79941"},"modified":"2016-09-21T13:00:06","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T13:00:06","slug":"minneapolis-singer-producing-second-christmas-album-for-holiday-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/minneapolis-singer-producing-second-christmas-album-for-holiday-show_79941.html","title":{"rendered":"Minneapolis singer producing second Christmas album for holiday show"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\" width:250px; padding:8px 10px 10px 10px; float:right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.getnews.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/a1474332346.jpeg\" style=\"border:none !important;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-29\" title=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.getnews.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/a1474332346.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Minneapolis singer Kat Perkins is seeking backers for her new Christmas album, &ldquo;A Kat Perkins Christmas, Volume II.&rdquo; To be fully funded, this project must receive at least&nbsp;$10,000&nbsp;in pledges by&nbsp;3:29 PM CDT on Thu, Oct 6 2016.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&ldquo;I LOVE Christmas,&rdquo; Kat Perkins stated. &ldquo;I want to make an album of [Christmas] music just for you &#8211; originals AND your favorite [Christmas] songs!&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Her band includes Joe Harrier&nbsp; on the bass, Dan Musselman&nbsp; on the keyboard, guitarist Eric Warner, Jeremy Tappero on the drums, along with the Laurels Quartet from Minneapolis on additional strings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The album producer is musical veteran Eric Warner, songwriter and musician.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&ldquo;More&nbsp;musicians will be added as finances allow,&rdquo; Warner stated. &ldquo;This year [the album] will be featuring a choir of rising stars from the Midwest.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Classic songs on the album will include &ldquo;Santa Baby&rdquo; written in 1953. Perkins original selections will include &ldquo;North Dakota Christmas&rdquo; written by her uncle Randi Perkins from Nashville, Tennesee and &ldquo;Minneapolis\/St. Paul&rdquo; written by Jennifer Grimm. Songs from the album will be included in Perkins upcoming Christmas show.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The special offers for backers pledging money through kickstarter.com include 18 levels of donations with perks, between $10 and $5,000. Perks include a digital copy of the new album at the first level, to a package deal with Kat Perkins Christmas memorabilia, multiple copies of the album, special mention on the album cover, and more at the highest level.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Also, backers who pledge $50 or more will be awarded a video of songs from the live show &ldquo;A Kat Perkins Christmas 2016.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In addition, a pledge of $125 or more will place the backers&rsquo; names&rsquo; in the liner notes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Along with completing two records since her last year&rsquo;s television appearance, Perkins wrote, produced, and performed her first &#8220;<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/9DcKDrDKl0s\" target=\"_blank\">A Kat Perkins Christmas<\/a>&#8221;&nbsp;show and recorded an album.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&ldquo;I&#8217;ve had an amazing journey in the music industry,&rdquo; Perkins stated, &ldquo;including starring in musical theatre productions, my own rock bands, and most recently finishing as a semi-finalist on season 6 of NBC&#8217;s The Voice Team Adam!&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Perkins stated her goal for this year&rsquo;s Christmas show is to do the same thing but on a larger scale. Along with music from the album, her Christmas show will provide family stories, and other entertainment features<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&ldquo;I can&#8217;t imagine NOT having Volume II of A Kat Perkins Christmas album to accompany the shows,&rdquo; Perkins said. &ldquo;I live to entertain. I support all creative arts and truly believe in the power of kindness. Be a part of making this album a reality.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Project is available on Kickstarter:&nbsp;<span>&nbsp;<\/span><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/akatperkinschristmas\/a-kat-perkins-christmas-album-vol-ii?ref=PatronPress.com\" target=\"blank\">https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/akatperkinschristmas\/a-kat-perkins-christmas-album-vol-ii?ref=PatronPress.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style='font-size:18px !important;'>Media Contact<\/span><br \/><strong>Company Name:<\/strong> Kat Perkins Inc.<br \/><strong>Contact Person:<\/strong> Kat Perkins<br \/><strong>Email:<\/strong> katperkinsmusic@gmail.com<br \/><strong>Country:<\/strong> United States<br \/><strong>Website:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patronpress.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.patronpress.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><object type=\"text\/html\" data=\"http:\/\/www.patronpress.com\" style=\"width:605px; height:400px;\"><\/object><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/press_stat.php?pr=minneapolis-singer-producing-second-christmas-album-for-holiday-show\" alt=\"\" width=\"1px\" height=\"1px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minneapolis singer Kat Perkins is seeking backers for her new Christmas album, &ldquo;A Kat Perkins Christmas, Volume II.&rdquo; To be fully funded, this project must receive at least&nbsp;$10,000&nbsp;in pledges by&nbsp;3:29 PM CDT on Thu, Oct 6 2016. &ldquo;I LOVE Christmas,&rdquo; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/minneapolis-singer-producing-second-christmas-album-for-holiday-show_79941.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[401],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}