Overview

Hello world! My name is BAY! and I'm a singer-songwriter currently based in Brooklyn.

I started performing with a cover band when I was eleven, learning classic rock, team music making, and raising money for charity with our annual concerts. When I was sixteen, my passion became a serious career inquiry: I started believing that I could actually do this. I began writing songs that I was proud of, shifting from the rock genre to the folk genre, and hesitantly opening up to show people this side of me. Once I got to New York, I started going to open mics, playing my music, and actually making it through a live talent competition to the final round to perform for celebrity judges and 900 audience members - right then, I knew this was a feeling I didn’t want to let go. Starting my professional recording journey, I am channeling my storytelling skills, my writing experience, and all of my emotional growth into the project. I am so excited to open this door and get the ball rolling, and I would LOVE to have you be a meaningful part of it. 

The material is ready, and the musicians are waiting -- this Plaid Dog campaign is the final step toward creating my first ever, professionally produced studio album.

This campaign is raising funds for my professionally recorded album with Mike Davidson  in Boston, MA. Mike is a seasoned Boston-based producer and engineer with experience working with both established and up-and-coming musicians. Together,  Mike and I are digging into my original material, writing arrangements, and reaching out to local musicians to bring the songs to life. 

We’ve been able to cover the costs of recording and producing one song, which is ready for you to check out right here on this page. This first song is called “Signed, Sealed, Delivered (S.S.D.),” and you can check it out below!

While I’ve been able to fund the recording process for "Signed, Sealed, Delivered (S.S.D.)” on my own, to create an album of songs of this quality, studio costs add up quickly. With that said, this campaign can give us a unique opportunity to collaborate and make great art together. Your donation will cover the following costs of my project:

1. Pre-Production: This is where everything starts.  and I will start crafting the arrangements for each song slated for the album. We’ll hold rehearsals to fine-tune the songs and arrangements and talk through new and exciting ideas for how to approach the recording process.

2. Recording: This is when we enter the studio and start capturing the music and where the songs become what you'll hear on this album. This campaign will play a huge role in making sure we have enough time to capture great performances for every member of the band.

3. Mixing & Mastering: Each track will get mixed to create the right balance between instruments, texture and color that make up a track. As a final step, the album will be mastered from beginning to end so that the listening experience is cohesive and carefully choreographed from start to finish.

And what will you get for your generosity and support? So many great cool exclusive things!

I am so appreciative and grateful for any support you can lend to this campaign. In exchange for your generosity, I've put together a really exciting group of gifts that are available exclusively through your participation in this campaign.

Check out some examples below and a full list to the right!

This first single has meant the world to me - I write from a very vulnerable place of experiences that, while personal, the emotion is felt widely. That is something I aim to continue to produce with my music, and hopefully have someone else feeling similarly hear themselves in me. I explore feelings of grief, guilt, doubt, love, excitement, unknowing, growing, and reflection - I use sense memory to try and rebuild a feeling to an experiential level. Using music to help me understand myself has helped me to know what I want, what I need, and how to communicate that with the people I care about, and I think that is something so centric to the world of music production. 

Being a communicative field, something I love so much about this process is working with a team to figure out each others’ language, and ultimately, create a new one to share with the listeners. I want to keep that process going, expand my communication, hear from new people, and be heard by new people. 

It’s projects like this that make that process possible. With your help, I can keep learning, growing, and expressing myself, and hopefully with time, have someone hear themselves represented in my music. 

If you're ready to contribute, just click the "Back This Project" button on the top right of this page! Every little bit counts, and I’m so grateful for all your support.

If you have folks in your network that would be interested in supporting me, please share this page with them!

Thank you so much for checking out my campaign page. I can't wait to share this music with you.