Help keep the music coming ... for as little as £1, $1 or €1 a month!

I’ve been writing and playing music for almost as long as I can remember, starting in my very young childhood when I used to compose truly terrible songs and instrumentals and inflict them on my long-suffering family and schoolmates. In 2007 I became a full time musician, and since then I’ve mostly been so busy touring, writing and recording that I never stopped to question what it was that drove me to do it.

It was really only when the Covid-19 crisis put an abrupt stop to my touring that I realised that the thing I was missing most was what I can only describe as the magic. It’s the magic that happens when you’re playing music in a room with other people, whether it’s in a concert situation with an audience or a singaround or session with other musicians, and the music takes over; suddenly you feel that you and everyone else present are essentially vehicles for the music, that the music is generating an energy of its own, independent of anything you’re doing … and there’s nothing else like it.

It was always a struggle financially, even before Covid-19, and it looks like it’s going to continue to be a struggle for a long time to come. Yes, I’m back out on the road now, and that’s a wonderful thing – but travel costs, from fuel to hotels and even food, have skyrocketed. I’m deeply, deeply grateful to my patrons for enabling me to keep going, giving me some badly needed financial stability and helping to pay my bills and put food on my table. But even more than your contributions (and they can be as little as £1, $1 or €1 a month — it all adds up, believe me), it’s your companionship that counts: the knowledge that there’s a community of people out there who are personally touched by my music and who want to make sure I’m able to keep making it.

No matter how much or how little you contribute, you’ll get access to my ongoing series of “How To Play …” and “Story Behind The Song” videos that I’m making as an exclusive benefit for my Patreon supporters, as well as downloads of sheet music (including DADGAD tablature and chord diagrams as well as standard tuning chords and lead sheets) that I hope will eventually become part of a future Sarah McQuaid Songbook … plus random drawings and photos, thoughts, progress updates and special patron-only discount deals.

I can’t express how very, very grateful I am for your support … and your company.

If you have friends you think might like to be part of this thing as well, please do send them here — if I can reach my initial goal of 200 patrons, we’ll have a celebratory hangout/Q&A online via Zoom!

With love,

Sarah McQuaid
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Thanks so much to Devon-based photographer Alastair Bruce for the banner photo above, which he took in my garden way back in 2007 — the year I gave up my day job, became a full-time musician and moved to Cornwall. The profile photo is a still from the video of my song “The Tug Of The Moon” by Mawgan Lewis.

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