FiddleSticks Presents: Recession-Busting Holiday Specials

Wow!  Thanksgiving is here!  So, first of all, thanks to you, our friends and fans, for your many years of support.  Have a fun and safe holiday!

And now, with December around the corner, the Christmas holidays will be here before you know it.  To help reduce the stress of Holiday gift-giving and lower your Driving-To-The-Mall anxiety levels, we're offering some excellent Holiday Deals on our Pearl-Award Winning FiddleSticks recordings.  We want to make it as easy as possible to do your shopping right at our FiddleSticks website!  So here are our Recession Busting offers, good from now until Christmas:

Deal Number One: Buy 'Farewell to Nauvoo' or 'Ampersand' and Get an Extra Disc Free!
Deal Number Two: Buy an 'Older' CD and Get another 'Older CD' Free!
Deal Number Three: Buy ANY FiddleSticks CD and get a TSSA CD for Free!
Deal Number Four: Use Andi's 'Obsidian Rain' as a Wild Card!
Deal Number Five: All Cassettes for a Fifty Cents!
Deal Number Six: Any Five CDs for $60!

FiddleSticks CDs are normally $15 each, with $2 shipping per order (and shipping is free if your total is $45 or more).  But these deals will double your money, or better.  Ordering instructions are way down at the end of this message.

Deal Number One: Buy a 'Recent' CD, and Get an Extra Disc Free!
That is, if you buy 'Farewell to Nauvoo' or 'Ampersand' or 'Return to Nauvoo' you can have, for free, an extra unpackaged 'Farewell to Nauvoo' or 'Ampersand' disc.  Use the extra for your car, or your computer, or as a gift. And you can mix and match.  So, for example, buy an 'Ampersand' - choose a 'Farewell' -- or any other combination.  And there's no limit: Buy two CDs, get two discs! Three for three, etc!
To listen to the tunes and help you decide what to buy, go to http://www.fiddle-sticks.com/FSListen.html.

But wait, there's more!
Deal Number Two: Buy an 'Older CD' and Get another 'Older CD' Free!
What are our 'Older CDs'?  Well, they would be 'Cat and the Fiddle' (2002), 'Time and Again' (2001), 'Cold Fusion' (2000), 'Playing Favorites' (1999), or the original 'Sampler' (1998).  We hate to admit it, but some of these lovely old collections are sitting on shelves getting just a little dusty.  We'd like to get them out of our garage and into your CD player.  So here's the deal: Buy any of our 'older' CDs and you can choose any other of the 'older' CDs for free.  So, for example, buy a 'Cat and the Fiddle' and get a 'Playing Favorites.'  Buy two, get two more for free! 

BUT WAIT, THERE'S EVEN MORE !!

Deal Number Three: Buy ANY CD and get a TSSA CD for Free!
If you've been a FiddleSticks fan for long you know we contribute a tune every year to the annual Timpanogos Singer-Songwriter Alliance (TSSA) compilation CD.  These are wonderful recordings, featuring some of the best, most original, authentic music from around Utah.  Normally we give them away with each two CDs we sell, but right now, we'll send you a TSSA free with ANY Fiddlesticks CD you purchase.  And you're already getting a deal.  How can you say no??  To read about the TSSA CDs, go to http://www.timpanogos.org/cds. If there's one you particularly want, specify it in your order and if we have it, we'll send your choice (but we don't have all of them anymore, so please list a second choice).  Buy one, get one.  Buy two, get two.  Buy ten, get ten!

And there's even more:
Deal Number Four: Andi Pitcher's Obsidian Rain
Before she joined up with the Fiddlesticks family, Andi released her own celtic CD, called Obsidian Rain, with Kristen Washburn.  "It's an album of original and evocative arrangemens of traditional Celtic tunes on fiddle and hammer dulcimer. Obsidian Rain defies categorization, but haunts the margins of Celtic and New Age and Fusion Folk."  And until Christmas, you can use it as a 'wild card' in any of the other deals... buy Obsidian Rain and choose any of the other freebies: the loose disc, the 'Older' album, and/or the TSSA compilation.  You can listen to samples at http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/apkw.

Maybe Not for Everybody, but...

Deal Number Five: Cassettes for Fifty Cents!
When we first started making recordings, our distributor, Excel Entertainment, insisted that "Cassette Tapes Were Here To Stay."  They made us print hundreds of them for our first two releases, Playing Favorites and Cold Fusion (Celtic Christmas). Needless to say, the marketing folks at Excel were lousy technology predictors, and as a result we have boxes and boxes of cassettes on our warehouse shelves.  BUT WE KNOW the Cassette Player is not entirely extinct!  It's all I have in my truck, for example.  For those of you who are behind the times like me, or who have grandparents or missionaries or other retro-techno friends who are clinging to their cassette players, THIS IS YOUR MOMENT!  Our cassettes are on sale from now until December 25 for fifty-cents a piece.  Yep, you heard right: two quarters will get you Playing Favorites or Cold Fusion, on cassette.  Stuff Stockings with them.  Use them for your next White Elephant Party.  Give them to all your neighbors instead of fruit cake.  At two for a buck, you can't go wrong, and our dusty shelves will thank you.  $0.50 each, plus $2 per order (not per unit) shipping.

This one's not exactly a holiday deal, since it's ALWAYS available.  But we wanted to remind you that you can always order any five of our CDs -- normally $75 -- for only $60.  And this month, you can choose all of the other deals to go with them.  So get out an order form and your calculator, and you'll be amazed how much you'll save! 

WOW!  HOW DO I SIGN UP??:
Mail order: Send a check to FiddleSticks, 647 North 1280 East, Orem UT 84097. Describe what CDs and what freebies or deals you want, and we'll send them right out to you.  CDs are $15 each, with $2 shipping per order (and shipping is free if your total is $45 or more). (You can print out a mail order form at http://www.fiddle-sticks.com/FSOrder.html.  But the order form doesn't know about the freebies, so please explain what offers you want to use.)

Website: You can go to the website and order by clicking on the 'buy now' link on the CDs you want to pay for.... but the website doesn't know about the freebies, so at the same time you make the website order, send an email to order@fiddle-sticks.com, identifying your order and describing what freebie/deals you want.

Paypal: You can purchase via PayPal (go to paypal.com, select 'send money,' and use the email address order@fiddle-sticks.com for the PayPal payee).  Just be sure to describe in the notes what CDs and what deal you want, and provide your address.

Thanks!
If you've wanted to add to your FiddleSticks collection, or replace those discs that got borrowed and never returned, now's a great time to do it at a super-affordable price!  Happy Thanksgiving, and Happy December!

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