Farraday is a fun, high-energy, band hailing from from the Chicago area - they rock the stage and just rocked their RocketHub project which has currently surpassed its goal.  I had a chance to interview them "wiki"-style (via the magic of the internet.)  

What was the inspiration behind the music project, "Farraday",  you are currently running on RocketHub?  Why is it important to you?

We had planned to head into the studio this december and record our first EP with our newly formed band Farraday. 

But our biggest obstacle, like a lot of bands was money. We knew it would take a lot of time we didn't have to raise the funds through traditional methods (playing shows and selling merch we didn't even have money to produce yet)

(Nic) had heard about crowdfunding and RocketHub on the CDBaby DIY Musician podcast, and pitched the idea to the band, and we were all interested in the prospect of having our friends family and fans help us to create the album and enjoy the rewards of its production along with us.

And so we decided to start a RocketHub campaign!

How has your experience been as a crowdfunding pioneer in the world of music  - how are your fans and community responding?

I think we were all really surprised how supportive people have been to help us fund our project, and we are really excited that the project will be able to be finished thanks to that support.

Most people hadn't heard of anything like this before we started, but liked the idea of it. 

It's also really cool to be a part of this new concept, I think there will be A LOT of bands and artists that use crowdfunding to fuel their projects in the future.

Any advice for Creatives looking to crowdfund a project?

Keep your funding goals low and realistic. 

Our worst fear was NOT meeting our goal, and feeling like failures. We debated back and forth what our number should be, so be careful to pick the right goals.

Also make sure your rewards and unique and worth the investment. Money isn't really the barrier either, we've had more success with the bigger dollar items than some of the smaller ones just based on what the rewards for them were

To wrap it up, we're really happy with how RocketHub has worked for us thus far. We still have time left on our campaign and were just lucky to have people who have supported us already.

We're looking forward to releasing an awesome EP (most likely in February) that our supporters are going to love and hopefully cherish all the more knowing that without them it might not have been made at all!

Thanks a ton Brian for giving us this opportunity and everybody at RocketHub for providing such an innovative way for us get our music made!

- Nic, Aubyn, Phil, Glenn, Danny, & Will

You are very welcome Farraday - thank you for taking the time to give us insights and for flying with Team RocketHub.

-Brian