AK Fan Project - Submit a message to Alison!

[Allie]

ALISON KRAUSS FAN PROJECT

Hey guys!

Myself, Mindy (silverqueen), and Africa (akusfanforeverrr) are all attending the final Paper Airplane Tour shows in Knoxville on September 24th and 25th. We're trying to put together a little fan appreciation project for Alison and we're looking for some fan submissions!

If you want to participate, we are looking for a very brief message from you to Alison. It can either be general appreciation or admiration for her, or as a "thanks for an awesome tour!" type message since this will (hopefully) be given to her at the end of the tour.

We're also very crunched for time right now. It's the 15th of September now, and I, Allie, board my plane in a week. We don't need much time to put everything together, but we do need messages for her as soon as possible.

GENERAL GUIDELINES
→ PLEASE be brief. At most, a paragraph, but try to shoot for two or three sentences. We're not printing out letters; we're planning on attaching the notes to a gift for her, so the smaller, the better. It doesn't have to be very deep - maybe a note about how her music brightens your day, something she's inspired you to do, or a general "thank you for being you" type of thing. Our goal is to make her smile.

→ Please try to have submissions in by September 22nd. We need to go through and format them to be printed by that night because we leave on the 23rd.

→ When submitting your message, please leave your first name, last initial, state you reside in, and if you attended a show this tour, what show that was. We're going to include this on your note as well!

HOW TO SUBMIT
You can either send me a private message on here, or direct an email to [e-mail]

[nascarholly]

^^^ I just sent you a message, Allie. Let me know if it is good enough.

God bless you and Alison always!!!

[greenmoray]

I will send you a msg for A.K this weekend.
Thanks....a great idea.

[Allie]

I've gotten a few submissions so far, thanks guys! Keep 'em coming!

However, I would like to emphasize two parts of my original post;

Sept 15, 2011 2:19:40 GMT -5 Allie said:

If you want to participate, we are looking for a very brief message from you to Alison. It can either be general appreciation or admiration for her, or as a "thanks for an awesome tour!" type message since this will (hopefully) be given to her at the end of the tour.

Sept 15, 2011 2:19:40 GMT -5 Allie said:

We're not printing out letters; we're planning on attaching the notes to a gift for her, so the smaller, the better. It doesn't have to be very deep - maybe a note about how her music brightens your day, something she's inspired you to do, or a general "thank you for being you" type of thing. Our goal is to make her smile.

From a few submissions I've received, this is turning into a, "tell Alison who you are and what you've done," type of thing -- this was not our intended goal. We want to make her smile and tell her why we love her.

Keep in mind that these must be very brief and if you send five or six sentences, we'll probably edit it down to two or three, so make it something meaningful to you. We're looking for short and sweet.

For example: if you're a musician who picked up an instrument after seeing AKUS play and started making music because of them, just a simple, "Your music inspired me to follow my dreams," would be excellent rather than a story of how that happened.

Anyone who has PMed me is free to edit or re-send something until the night of the 22nd. I'm sorry if this comes across as rude or harsh, as that is not my intended effect. We just want to show Alison some love ;D

[silverqueen]

Basically, please try to make it about ALISON, not about YOU.

It's supposed to be an end-of-the-tour appreciation thing. Think "giving someone flowers at the end of a recital," not "meet and greet."

[Allie]

Just a reminder - this is the last day to submit or change anything! ;D

[turbo]

So, how did it go?

[Allie]

It went well, we'll post details when we're not exhausted and sleep-deprived. We're both going home tomorrow so details sometime this week.