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Ryan, Melissa, Lily, Liam, and Noelle Flanigan are moving to Oxford. (Family photo by Meaghan Smith)
A Little Financial History
Liturgical Folk was founded in 2016 by Ryan Flanigan. It is a new work of the Anglican Mission in America, reimagining the hymnal for the next generation of ecumenical worship. We seek to fill out the musical landscape of the church with fresh songs rooted in holy tradition and rising up from the ground of local communities. Our goal from the beginning in 2016 was to inject our vision into the church by releasing six volumes of music in three years, providing a diverse and unique catalog of beautiful songs.
Liturgical Folk, Vols. 1 & 2—Table Settings and Edenland—were released on February 1, 2017. We released Vol. 3—Crumbs—on November 1, 2018 and Vol. 4—Lent—on February 1, 2019. Next, we released Vol. 5—Advent—on November 1, 2019 and Vol. 6—Psalm Settings—on January 31, 2020. In order to accomplish this financially, we broke up the project into three phases.
Phase I, which began in the summer of 2016, included a successful grassroots fundraising campaign, the recording and release of Vols. 1 & 2, and three mini-tours. With the financial help of over seventy-five contributors we raised $31,333! Through touring, social media, and a year and a half of organic word-spread tens of thousands of folks around the nation and world were introduced to Liturgical Folk.
Phase II began in the spring of 2018. We raised $56,585, this time through nearly one hundred donors, recorded and released Vols. 3 & 4, and went on two more mini-tours. This expanded our reach to hundreds of thousands of people, and added to the repertoires of hundreds of churches around the world.
With the passing of our co-founder Fr. Nelson Koscheski on March 17, 2019 we sensed it was time to put a bow on the project. So in the spring of 2019 we launched our third phase. Phase III began with one final fundraising campaign, through which we raised another $35,632, enabling us to record and release our last two volumes of music and to go on two more mini-tours.
In all we received more than 300 donations totaling $123,550. Thank you so much to those who caught the vision and made a contribution. Your investment will continue to bear fruit as these records and this new catalog of songs reach the multitudes.
What’s Next?
The Flanigans are moving to England! Ryan Flanigan has accepted a place on a Continuing Education course at the University of Oxford beginning this fall. We would LOVE for you to come along for the ride. (Read the full story here.)
If you have been blessed by our ministry and believe in our work, would you consider partnering with us by praying and, if you are able, by making a financial contribution through our Go Fund Me? As the church, we are called to care for one another. We need our community of loved ones to help us get where God is calling us to be in order to prepare for what God is calling us to do.
As a way of saying thank you, we plan to self-fund an album for Matins and Vespers (Morning and Evening Prayer)—8 new musical settings from the Book of Common Prayer’s Daily Office, which we composed during the pandemic to help us pray as a family. Everyone who donates will be among the first to hear and receive these recordings, hopefully by fall 2021. (CLICK to Go Fund Us.)
