Crowd-funding campaign set up for tribute double album to Ingrid Jonker

This tribute album surpasses the inherent entertainment value, expanding to preserve Jonker's legacy, her work, language, history and culture.

Jonker's passionate poems are reinvigorated with a wide variety of musicians in a number of genres, from acoustic, pop and rock, to electronic, metal and more.

The three dozen adaptations include popular and new artists, as well as legends, veterans, award winners, expatriates and beyond South Africa (including England, Germany, the US etc.) It is also not strictly Afrikaans with several English translated versions included. More detailed information at: www.flamedrop.com/ingridjonker

An investment

With all the songs of this independent release already recorded and supplied by the artists, all that remains is the physical CD and limited vinyl reproduction and marketing cost. For this purpose an Indie GoGo crowd-funding campaign has been set up to involve the public. This is not a donation system, but an investment with many amazing perks attached to each contribution tier - from instant mp3 downloads and the double CD, to vinyl albums, Flame In The Snow books (love letters between Jonker and fellow writer André Brink), and original artwork from acclaimed artist Vernon Swart (whose amazing ocean scene appears on the album cover).

The IndieGoGo project can be viewed at www.igg.me/at/ingrid-jonker

The artists and their songs include:

• Anton Goosen - 'n Hemel Vol Blou Akkers;
• Jennifer Ferguson - Windliedjie (live);
• Kalahari Surfers - Klein Hande;
• Inge Beckmann - Korreltjie Sand;
• Beeskraal Revival - Verlore Stad;
• Ingrid Jonger and Tim Parr - Toemaar Die Donker Man;
• Ernestine Deane - Die Kind;
• Falling Mirror - 25 December 1960;
• Terminatryx – Ontvlugting;
• Stefan Strydom and Gert Vlok Nel – Ingrid;
• Abraham van Geenbybel - Donker Stroom;
• Rambling Bones - Summer (For Simone);
• Andrew Kay – Fragment;
• Mike Dickman - I Went In Search Of My Body;
• Tonia Möller - Man En Vrou;
• Wilde Junge (Wild Youth) - Police Protection Guaranteed;
• André van Rensburg - Liedjie Van Die Troubadoer;
• The SlashDogs - Lied Van Die Graf Grawer;
• The Sighs Of Monsters – Drawing;
• Die Naaimasjiene – Mamma;
• Robbi Robb van Tribe After Tribe - Face Of Love;
• Jim Neversink - Bitterbessie Dagbreek;
• Daniel Eeuwrick - Aan Uys Krige;
• Somerfaan – Ontnugtering;
• Anne van Schothorst - Ek Het Gedink;
• Ivan Kadey – Tokolosh;
• Radio Rats - Deep Dark Introverted Girl;
• Ingrid Jonker and Francois Breytenbach Blom - Die Kind;
• Eckard Potgieter – Ontvlugting;
• Victor S Wolf - Ballade Van Drie Vriende;
• Juliana Venter - Hierdie Reis;
• Dirk Ace - Van 'n Skilder;
• The CapTn (feat. Julie Hartley) - Reclaimed Land;
• Mavis Vermaak - Heimwee Na Kaapstad;
• The McClones - I Am With Those; and
• Zaria - Begin Somer.

The CD double album will be released in May by Sound Action and Flamedrop, and also be available in download format (plus if all goes to plan, a limited edition vinyl).