How you can sponsor the Singing Wells Project
Singing Wells is a charitable project, managed and funded by the Abubilla Music Foundation a UK registered charity (reg. no: 1142173).
Our work to record, archive and share the music of East Africa is funded by donations. Funds are used to support our field recording trips, provide a permanent music archive and also to help the communities we visit gain an income from their music.
You can help us support music communities in East Africa by sponsoring a song, a music group or a whole field recording day.
The below link will direct you to a Paypal donation page, with payments made to the Abubilla Music Foundation to fund the Singing Wells project:
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Sponsor a Song
£25
Your money will be used to support the Singing Wells project to record the songs of traditional music groups, help us tell their stories and keep their music traditions alive. Your donation to the project will be spent in East Africa and will go towards supporting music groups during their Singing Wells recording session. Each group receives a payment for their performance, which they can use to help them continue practicing and performing in the future. The songs and videos we record are archived and published, giving each group further opportunities to gain an income from their music.
As well as a special thank you on our website, we’ll send you details of the song your donation funded and an MP3 download of the track, plus a commemorative digital Singing Wells poster.
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* Please note: donations are made to the Abubilla Music Foundation, our registered charity which funds the Singing Wells project
Sponsor a Music Group
£250
Your money will be used to support the Singing Wells project to record the songs of one traditional music group, help us tell their stories and keep their music traditions alive. Your donation to the project will be spent in East Africa, funding the recording session in the field and will go towards a gratuity payment for the music group, which they can use to help them continue practicing and performing in the future. The songs and videos we record from your donation will be archived and published, giving the group further opportunities to gain an income from their music.
As well as a special thank you on our website we’ll send you details of the music group you have sponsored, a DVD of their music videos and a downloadable album of their music, plus a Singing Wells commemorative t-shirt and digital poster.
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* Please note: donations are made to the Abubilla Music Foundation, our registered charity which funds the Singing Wells project
Sponsor a Recording Day
£3000
Your money will be used to support a complete day of recording traditional music for the Singing Wells project. Your donation will be spent in East Africa, funding the recording sessions in the field. There may be as many as six different music groups performing on one day and your donation will mean that every music group is able to perform and their songs and dance will be recorded by our field team. Funds will be used to provide for two field-recording engineers from Ketebul Music, a non profit organisation in Nairobi and our project partners. Your donation will also provide for gratuity payments to the individual music groups, which they can use to help them continue practicing and performing in the future. The songs and videos we record from your sponsored day will be archived and published, giving the groups further opportunities to gain an income from their music.
As well as a special thank you on our website, we’ll call you via Skype during a recording session and you can hear the music you have sponsored live from the field. We will also send you a copy of our beautiful Singing Wells commemorative photo book, a full album of the ‘Best of Singing Wells’ and a Singing Wells t-shirt. We will also bring you a unique gift back from the field visit – a traditional, hand made musical instrument typical of the region.
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* Please note: donations are made to the Abubilla Music Foundation, our registered charity which funds the Singing Wells project
Other Ways to Donate
Download an album
Recorded for Singing Wells via our Bandcamp page. Your purchase of one of our albums, or an individual song, will directly benefit traditional music groups in East Africa, with royalty payments going straight to the performers wherever possible.
Donate any amount
We don’t mind whether you want to donate £1 or £100 (or even more). Any amount you give will help the Singing Wells project bring the music of East Africa to more and more people. We guarantee that your donation to the project will be spent in East Africa helping traditional music groups get on the world music map. Please note, the Singing Wells project is funded by the Abubilla Music Foundation, the below link will direct you to make a donation to the Abubilla Music Foundation:
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Donate your time, products or services
We are always keen to hear from people who are happy to offer their time to help the project and from companies which may be able to support us with products or services free of charge. If you can help out in this respect please contact: info@singingwells.org
