The Veiled Isle
Birdfeeder | Music
Overview
Art-rock band Birdfeeder is pushing the envelope of what a live gig can be, with their shadow puppetry visual album The Veiled Isle.
The show has already been created and performed once for Lōemis Festival in 2021, and with a little help from you, we’re bringing it to NZ Fringe 2022 in Wellington, for four performances in Te Auaha’s Tapere Nui theatre.
About the project
Working with theatre artists Zoe Higgins and Paja Neuhoferova, Birdfeeder’s songs will be animated by multi-layered, large scale shadow puppetry, taking the audience on a dreamy, mesmerising journey. You haven’t seen a live gig or a puppet show like this, ever before.
About the team
Birdfeeder is an art-rock trio from Wellington, led by Stephanie Cairns on lead songwriting, vocals and keyboards, with Marley Mokomoko-Young on bass and Josh Harris on drums. They have recently recorded and released a companion EP to the show, titled The Vile Isle. Listen here.
Zoe is a theatre artist and poet who has extensive experience working as a theatre tech, which has been invaluable in finding our feet in the theatre space. Paja hails from the Czech Republic and is known in Wellington as an improviser, clown, puppeteer and physical theatre expert. Warwick Donald is one of Wellington’s most well known sound engineers, who has worked with countless venues and musical projects – he also recorded and mixed The Vile Isle EP.
Why we need your help
The Covid Red Light restrictions have cut our potential ticket sales from a maximum of 125 per show, to just 36. Fortunately, Te Auaha have generously waived the bulk of their hire fees for the venue. We are absolutely stoked that in this environment of cancelled gigs, we will still be able to go ahead – but our budget is short overall by about $700, even if we sell 90% of our tickets.
We need your help to ensure everyone in the team can get paid properly under these limitations. We put the same amount of work in each night regardless of how many seats are filled in the audience and will be delivering the same excellent show. Our aim is for the puppeteers to be paid $100 for each performance, the band $200 as a group, and sound tech $200.
Thank you so much for the support!
Donors
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Anonymous
Great music and show!
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bridgette murphy
Go Birdfeeder Go!
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James Burgess
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Project Updates
You're amazing!
This is incredible! We have already reached our goal, just a few days in to this campaign.
We're really humbled by everyone who has generously donated so far, we didn't expect to receive so much support so quickly.
There's still a couple of weeks left in the campaign so we're adding a stretch goal to help with our upcoming tour. The Veiled Isle is going to the Dunedin Fringe Festival in March and we were planning to find friends' couches to crash on during our season. We've already received a Dunedin Fringe Artists' Grant to fund most of our trip, but with your help we can book accommodation to ensure that the team can keep together and is well rested to perform (and reduce our potential exposure to Covid by being spread across multiple houses).
Huge thanks to everyone who has supported us so far!
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