[00:00:00] This podcast is Power by The Plug. Hey y'all, it's me, Dani Baby. Common live from a Denver Community Media, sitting with a very talented, lovely, ethereal being in the studio with me today. And I'm just really, really grateful to have this conversation.
[00:00:22] So we're going to go ahead and get into our little moment of preparing for active listening. We're going to stem it out make any noise movement you want to for a few moments and but a tata, who will need a pout, whoo! And that's what I got.
[00:00:42] So who is next to me on the left here today? Well, I, uh, the person on the left is true Morse. I'm very excited to be here today and talking with you.
[00:00:56] I thank you so much for this opportunity and I'm very excited to see where the conversation leads today. I'm going to end up with you. Awesome. Well, I'm going to first off, I got a jump right into this because I'm this person.
[00:01:10] I had the honor of witnessing your magic on Friday. Was it? Yeah, Friday at last late Saturday. Okay, Saturday. Saturday. Okay, this is where my brain is at. But Saturday at last late.
[00:01:25] You and your bandmates as well as just quite honestly the only pride celebration that I was part of, or that I've been part of thus far. And honestly, the best experience I've ever had celebrating in pride.
[00:01:42] But just, I just have to say like I was fan humaning so hard watching you up there. I don't even know how to behave. Just your essence and how you even move and work within the crowd fans, you know, just the event itself and the individuals there.
[00:01:59] And so I just wanted to give some honor where it's due not just to like the musical portion, but the artists and the talent that goes behind encapsulating that whole moment. And you are chef's kiss. So thank you so much. Absolutely. That's so kind. Absolutely.
[00:02:17] So I would love to, I guess really I just want to know how did you come about, come, you know, being part of this band, give us a little bit of a backstory. I don't mind.
[00:02:26] So, so for those who don't know, I play bass for a lot of Mars. She's a local indie Altpop, Garlay. Mm-hmm. She's a tour de force. I love her so much. She's a very dear friend. And before that, I was just a fan.
[00:02:44] I met her when Loi, they actually played Globe Hall back in the 2020, too. Okay. And I met her through a series of friends and she said she used a musician. And so I just started checking her out. And at the time it was the current band we have,
[00:03:05] but our guitarist Steve was actually playing bass at the time. And in my brain it was like, oh he's the bass player. This is awesome. And I started going to the shows almost every single one they had.
[00:03:19] If I wasn't working a show, I was trying to make one of their shows. And I was going to their shows for about a year. And then one day it was Moona playing mission ballroom. Okay. And Alanna and I texted each other at the same time.
[00:03:36] Like, hey, are you going to be at Moona tonight? Mm-hmm. And immediately we're both, yes. Yes, we're going to be there. And we met there and the openers were this group called the Nova Twins. Okay. And their bass player, she is just all over the place.
[00:03:54] And in the same town, we were trying to figure out what she was doing with her bass. And I was getting so intrigued and Alanna was like, why are you so into this?
[00:04:04] And I said, oh, I'm a bass player and I start pulling up pictures of my bass rig. And my base. And she said in that moment, she had a light bulb, click over her head. She had no idea I played bass. She brought it up with the band.
[00:04:19] And they had been looking for a bass player because Steve is an insanely talented guitar player. And him being on week guitar is just life-changing. And so they were looking for a bass player at the time.
[00:04:35] And Alanna, the next day, just text me, I was like, hey, let's be friends. Let's get you. I'm like, yeah, I'm pointing at you and your my friend now. Yeah, she very much, she very much kind of snatched me up from the air.
[00:04:48] And we went and got coffee and me, I have no idea. I'm like, oh, like, friendship time. And she starts, we sat for about an hour. She was asking me like, so your musician and I said, yeah,
[00:05:01] we started talking about how long I've been playing bass and stuff. And we talked about her musical journey. And I was like super-reference. And then at the end she was like, oh, by the way, would you like to join my band?
[00:05:15] And in my brain I was like, what about Steve? Steve leaving the band and she was like, no, Steve plays guitar. We need a bass player. And so I sat, sure. And I sat in with them for one practice and immediately
[00:05:30] everybody in the band was just super nice, super friendly. And it went very well and the rest is history. And I was just over a year ago. Okay, so you actually made quite a few moves like since meeting, you're already having shows you had your EP release.
[00:05:47] Yeah. Like a month ago you were saying? Yep on May the 4th. Oh, so we did a little Star Wars theme that I was also at last like, and the EP alone has been working on for years now with a very talented producer named Ben Pazano. Okay.
[00:06:04] Who he has his own project, of course, a conno, which is also wonderful. You should check it out. But the EP is called the Prologue. That's awesome. On all streaming platforms by Alana Mars and it's truly wonderful.
[00:06:17] I just see you put a little light of blood sweat tears and love into that. Into that piece. Like I tell just from the stage presence, y'all took us on a journey. That's one thing I really appreciate about artists
[00:06:28] is like there was such a cohesiveness to your set, you know, and just the way that the candor existed from, you know, like being an observer for a moment and then getting on the stage. And just, I don't know, you took me through a journey.
[00:06:43] And it was, I don't know, I think it was just absolutely what my spirit needed. And so I'm just a fan human being. I don't really know how to be right now. But so I'm a huge fan. I was always such a joy seeing you there.
[00:06:58] And when you, when we first connected, you just jumped in right at a pin and like, I'll come to the show. Yeah, absolutely. That truly means a lot to me. And I told the band that you were going to be there
[00:07:10] and that we were going to do this. Yeah. This week's that they were super excited as well. So I really appreciate that. Well, we're definitely going to be linking the music in because hello, it's phenomenal.
[00:07:22] And one big thing, you know, I, I've been in like the Denver Community Music scene for a long time. I'm more of like an observer and a lover of the arts. It's been really hard to call myself an artist because my art form is honoring others' art forms.
[00:07:38] Interesting. So that's why I just, I will go to all the shows. But I really, really love smaller shows. And like that more intimate, not even that it has to be the beginning stages. But just like this is, you know, this is kind of like what we've
[00:07:55] worked our whole lives to get to no matter how big that little, how big that little stage could be, you know? And especially something so beautiful in the expression of all of your bandmates and just the freedom that they were
[00:08:09] existing in it really left me like speechless and my whole joy enhanced. And so just to continue, I'm going to keep giving you honor as we go. But I don't think that a lot of people really know how much work goes into creating events.
[00:08:25] And so I'm going to backtrack the tiniest bit because we're just we're going to come back to that events conversation. But just for a spell sitting in that space, you know, where you got
[00:08:36] asked to be in this band and you were like, yeah, this is a friend kind of like fan humaning the band. Yeah. What would your younger self, you know, a single digit age, younger self? What would that younger self be thinking about this version of self right now?
[00:08:55] They'd be losing their mind. I'm good. Good. I had a very young age watching my dad play, bass and bands and stuff and just going, like my head would explode every time we get on stage.
[00:09:12] And so it was the eighth grade after we did like a talent show and it was after the eighth grade talent show that I turned to my parents and I was like, I want to be a rock star. And that's slowly evolved into me wanting to do more
[00:09:27] orchestra work and movie score and kind of, it's been kind of this winding river of finding out where I want to be and now and then for years I was wanting to start another band, wanting to do it but I didn't quite have the
[00:09:41] dry or find the right people that I wanted to really take it off with and then suddenly a lot of just went. You want to? I love it. And it was this moment of just pure joy and
[00:09:55] yeah, my kid itself is definitely thriving on the inside right now as we do this. That's a beautiful thing to say because I don't think that, you know, like my generation and generations below, below mine that we had a very much representation of what this look like.
[00:10:15] You know the dreams that were presented to us were more on the spectrum of like still a little bit like my pick-up band, bum bum-ah, and now it's like okay like you actually like it doesn't have to be this big, big scale thing.
[00:10:28] It can be these like achievements of like just be really cool to be in a band and where it's taking you now. So thank you, that's so beautiful. All right younger self. I'm out here representing for you baby. I love that.
[00:10:43] So moving into understanding that you wanted to be you know in somewhat of music and and then this is how I've learned of you is I reached out to AEG because I just love the shows that keep getting brought to
[00:10:59] Denver like the spectrum of them is all over the place and like in one weekend there's like 15 events going on. So and it's really amazing because it's really catering to an entire community versus like okay we're just gonna bring in this you know one genre
[00:11:16] it's just across the board and I'm really really enjoying that as well as like the venue spaces themselves first and foremost. I've been experiencing firsthand like this safety that has been presented especially you know with all the different types of folks that we have in the world.
[00:11:32] You know everybody's feeling very safe. I feel very like seeing protected and safe just entering these spaces so then I feel more at ease to have a really good time. So anyway, I've gotten I've been able to go to quite a few shows.
[00:11:48] I feel very honored that I've been able to have that opportunity and so I reached out to AEG and I don't know if I'm allowed to say names all say a very lovely human in one of the departments.
[00:12:01] I was looking for somebody that I could have you know in an episode so that the community could maybe have like a more clear look at like what goes into planning events or you know has somebody moved up in the company and you were highly recommended by someone
[00:12:17] and I was like oh my goodness and you know you responded and that's how we got here today and then I got to see you at a show and now I really want to know how you got into the doors
[00:12:29] working with a company that a lot of their you know their drive is for the musical experience. Yeah so it actually all came from the pandemic. Okay basically thank you viruses. It was yeah out of the very out of a very unfortunate situation you know some opportunities
[00:12:51] and in 2020 I was in my senior year of college at the University of Kentucky. Okay doing music I was playing bass in a symphony orchestra for the university and I was really intent on moving to New York with a friend who wanted to do fashion
[00:13:09] and we were going to go visit New York and scout it out on March 11th of 2020. Wow did they shut us down around there? Yeah it was it was like the 13th that it shut down.
[00:13:23] Okay and so it all kind of fell apart and I was we got furloughed from the university I had a job working at the symphony hall doing box office sales and just studying and of course
[00:13:39] music degree through Zoom wasn't the most productive or easy thing to do so I kind of took a back seat on that and then my lease was ending and I had a good friend who was supposed to teach
[00:13:55] English and Japan and Japan shut everything down so they were just kind of freaking out because they also had nowhere to go. I was just playing a moving home and so they took a weekend to just
[00:14:09] reach out to fisheries in Alaska and state parks anywhere that would house you while giving you employment. Yeah and the first place they heard back from was the Gondola in Tell Your Ride.
[00:14:20] I'll call her Rado and they said can you be here in two weeks and they said I don't have a car and they said do you know anyone with a car because we're trying to hire a lot of people right now
[00:14:30] and so Brian they called me up and said hey do you want to go to Colorado in three weeks? Wow and I said sure why not and I called my parents and I said hey and they were fully on board
[00:14:42] and so I did that for a season working on the ski resort and then Denver was the closest city and I came here and I didn't really know what to do and I started applying to just any
[00:14:57] music or arts related job I could find and I started out at the Rado Center for the Arts Working in the front desk there which was the humans over there they're incredible people. Great team beautiful team over there and I did that for the first summer 2021 okay
[00:15:14] and I had applied to AG for box office position okay right when I moved there in April and then I didn't hear back until three months later I got a call from the head of ticketing
[00:15:27] and she was like hey are you still interested? I said absolutely and she said okay can you be here like Thursday at the Fiddler's Green and I think it was it was KGL event they did like a
[00:15:38] long radio show where it's just like six bands over full afternoon and I was just thrown to the wall in the box office and within two hours I was working in window and sewing tickets and I just
[00:15:51] watched somebody and then stepped in and from there the rest is history I decided to leave the Rado Center and go for AG full time they didn't have that opportunity yet for me at the time
[00:16:06] but I was like I love this yeah please you're gonna make this out of me do something yeah and I kind of just kept bugging and saying hey if you need to just cover it let me know
[00:16:19] yeah I'm free I just quit my other job and it was it eventually came up that I they needed some of the two answered a call and do the customer service as we are opening
[00:16:33] shows back up and it was everybody needed to be vaccinated wearing a mask and stuff so it was a lot of support and a lot of people very angry with that policy so I say now that my shoulders
[00:16:48] are much more sloped when I was very busy and they're done right. It was very because it got to a point where I'd be on the phone for 20 minutes or so and somebody would just be yelling about
[00:17:02] yeah it's unconstitutional stuff and it was just like hey this is you know our accordance with state in federal law this is a choice we're making so we can bring back the arts and make it a safe and
[00:17:13] welcoming space in this time of kind of great up people everybody's unsure right now it's been a chaotic almost two years at that point you're in a half at that point and people want to go see music
[00:17:31] it's a long time to go especially for such a rich and vibrant arts and music center as Denver I had just come here and I could already tell people about it a bit to go and see bands live and see
[00:17:46] that experience and it was something that I did that customer service for a while and just answering those calls day to day Monday through Friday and through all of that I met so many people
[00:18:03] who were just so happy you know like all I need is my vaccination card and we're in the mask and I say yeah well thank goodness that's perfect like I have that already to go
[00:18:13] like super we'll see you the night of the show just here's the step by step and we'll be having a good night and part of doing that and going to shows working shows in the box office as
[00:18:25] well and stepping out after my shift and just watching the show my attention kind of rapidly shifted from this kind of symphonic you know more formal spaces to now whatever bands going to be
[00:18:40] there tonight and just having no idea and just following in love with so many different artists who I never would have heard of otherwise but now I'm being able to share that moment and standing
[00:18:54] around all these patrons who have come you know pay to come see this also having that moment of just joy right seeing music again I I'm just like this is what I want to do this is
[00:19:09] what I could see myself doing for the rest of my life and I've slowly evolved through the company doing different things and now I'm fully in the operations world okay of being on the floor running
[00:19:21] the show making sure people get in safely they have their tickets ready to go yeah hands they have a good night we help out with anything that comes out whether it's a medical need
[00:19:33] whether it's something their tickets not showing up but they bought their reseller and never got sent to them stuff like that and just making sure they get in they see the show and they have a
[00:19:45] good time and they make it out safely and make it home absolutely I mean you all really do cover all the bases there's been like many times where I was like around like a rowdy bunch I typically
[00:20:00] go to shows by myself because I tend to get very overstimulated I kind of need to stand in corner then come back out and so you know I'm not a ranger if you will but I'm an observer
[00:20:09] and I love it and then I'll stim for a second and I gotta go yeah but I can always tell that you have you know there's a team that has a great awareness people are checking in on me and
[00:20:21] or if they notice that I'm overstimulated like do you have ear plugs and things like that so just the way that you all cater to that so people across the board can enjoy a show as well as just like
[00:20:33] the shows that you all do bring together you were talking about like you would never have seen some of the acts that you've seen without maybe being in that and saying like because live music was
[00:20:45] taken away for a while I'm like where like I'm constantly on AEG side or on you know Instagram like what's the next show coming okay wins the wins this coming like I'm like I know months ahead
[00:20:56] of time I know when the tickets are dropping because it's that important to me it quite honestly is you know I guess like the experience that I need to continue understanding the phenomenon on
[00:21:09] that it is to be human you know so I don't know I'll still explain it so with you moving up in in the company do you see yourself is there any other areas that are interesting you know that
[00:21:23] you're interested in or within that or is it helping at the same time the same question is it also helping you navigate with your band away to to work more efficiently within promoting yourself yeah
[00:21:39] so I love the questions you ask and how you kind of leave the conversation because every time you speak in between the pauses and stuff and like now this is really good to play
[00:21:51] so you're saying that I got really excited because now being in the band it's very much where we are now the artists coming in and playing a space which is when I'm working mm-hmm I'm helping out the artists and making sure that they have everything they need
[00:22:12] coordinating with our production team making sure all that goes well and then coordinating finalizing and payment at the end of the night and being on that side and now being in a band
[00:22:22] where it's like okay I know how I'm going to approach this because I know what the other side is doing right now I know what they're going through and it makes that a lot easier to approach which is nice because
[00:22:36] everyone in the band is very specialized in different different sections of the music world of us Steve Argotaris he's a wonderful photographer and he does marketing promos for shows built animations and when you see those posts that come up where it's like live at red rock
[00:22:56] sentence this big spiral yeah and which that's what he does on that our drummer Nick he's a sound engineer so he runs sound at clubs around town different venues yeah and he's built his basement into like
[00:23:11] a mini studio and he knows it all and when we show up he's already talking to he knows a lot of the people working yeah he already works there and he just knows exactly what to pick up from
[00:23:25] what to do he knows the language and he knows how to work that other side and then Alana just does the business side she is so business savvy her father was really amazing just individual
[00:23:43] music world of booking that talent and doing that kind of creativity shows throwing side yeah she's just like heralded so much of that and now is projecting that outwards and it helps so much
[00:23:56] so it's I'm in this very fortunate position where I see everyday working with these very high level artists who tour every year constantly and a lot of them who now I've been doing this
[00:24:09] operation side for just over a year and I've worked with the same bands now where when they come back I'll work that way you know establishing that relationship and knowing hey when and if we end
[00:24:23] up going on tour it'll be nice to go to these venues and also make those relationships with these kind of individuals who are in similar positions around the country or around the world wherever
[00:24:36] that ends up going so it is a very nice decademy of being able to play both sides but in reality there aren't really sides to it because it's just such an industry that kind of revolves and a big swirling pot everything connects everything interconnects everyone knows everyone yeah
[00:24:55] I'm taking up on that the more I go out it's just I've now especially playing shows I'm seeing co-workers who are you playing here I'm like where are you here and they said oh I'm also work here
[00:25:08] and you know or they're just there for fun they go and see other shows outside of work as well and can also have that being like I saw you when I was working this venue now playing this venue
[00:25:21] and that's so exciting it's so much bigger stuff like that so it's a very it's a very cool position and I'm really excited to see that grow as both sides of with the band and the music we're making
[00:25:35] as well as with work and the music we're in a new way yeah you are fully immersed in it yes and that's just brilliant you know I think it's because the the biggest portion that I think that
[00:25:50] that I'm coming from is for years and years Denver was overlooked it was like the big little city that like yeah I get some like honky talk out of there and I'm like what there is so much talent in
[00:26:02] Denver you know across the board we have really you know amazing hip hop artists we have amazing country singers we've got some incredible EDM artists we've got some punk and indie that is just
[00:26:14] blowing up right now and I'm like they originate from here like their root system is here or where they found their drive and their inspiration you know because I think that the market is really patient
[00:26:25] here too like folks are very kind it's not like we're not a comparable bracket in my brain to like New York and LA because we're just like there's a little bit more of like a humbleness here
[00:26:38] and I don't mean humble is in the way that there's pride in hum humility I mean that folks are just like willing to sit and convers with you and figure out where it is you want to go and how
[00:26:50] that they can be of more service and then the community all steps in and they're like oh we're all just going to bring each other up and so there's just like a camaraderie here that I have been seeing
[00:27:01] more and more of especially since COVID happened and now all the artists are like y'all we just don't have it we can't do it on our own now like if this ever happens again we have to have each other's
[00:27:11] backs and are interests in the same in the same way or being an earnest upholding for each other because like that divided a lot of people a lot of people had to walk away from their talents
[00:27:25] so just to you know even state that and just your awareness around like the position you're in is really profound because I don't think that a lot of folks had maybe the willingness to
[00:27:38] wear with all as well as the foundation of friendship or the links that you had to continue making that happen for themselves so it's just amazing to see that you like you're like okay I went this
[00:27:53] way and now I'm going to go this way and your younger self is freaking out because it's just continues realigning and you're or continue aligning even further and now you're kind of setting up like
[00:28:02] this really cool structure for someone else to follow or for someone else to be encouraged by and it's no little thing friend like what y'all are doing is really amazing the the young people
[00:28:13] just all the people that I witnessed just watching you all with a sparkle in their eye but you know like every single one of the band members brings something so profound to the table that makes this happen
[00:28:26] and you know somebody could go and we're showing me like oh it's so easy to put that together that shit is not easy it takes I feel very fortunate that I came into the band like as
[00:28:39] they're like zooming down the landing strip yeah like everybody was biting at the bit at that moment and we played you a mask like a month after I joined okay and it was like this big moment for everyone
[00:28:58] and now since then we've all just obviously I don't know how things were very much before I entered the band because they've been playing together for years and especially Katie and Alanna have been playing music together in various groups for I think six or almost seven years now
[00:29:18] and they're both like their energy together is incredible and they used to be in a band called sister Neapolitan okay and it's so nice to go and listen back to that music sometimes because I'm like wow
[00:29:33] they've had it yeah they've had it and they invited us so long and now we're able to do this as kind of this larger group where everybody is just so invested ready to go ready to bite at the bit
[00:29:49] trying to stuff so we're really excited to be in that position and especially as you're saying the support from the community is immense the minute I told you know friends and co-workers
[00:30:04] I was like hey I joined a band everybody was like where can we go yeah when's it gonna be and we did a house in a ton of co-workers showed up for that one side didn't even know
[00:30:16] you know about it and we're just so excited because everybody else is also working on their projects whether it be music or arts in the general or something else entirely and everybody is just
[00:30:32] so excited to see you know the people around them succeed absolutely and it's been really nice to meet people as well and see them just take off and spread their wings and all from accepting
[00:30:45] the position and from Kentucky to here I really love that it's it's the word serendipitous yeah I said yeah I was ready for myself to just trip over that and I just blew it out but
[00:31:00] he did great we did it but yeah it's this I think back on it all like because now I'm so much I'm like this is my life this is my day to day and when I look back on everything that had to
[00:31:15] happen to get me to this place there's a lot of bad a lot of bad and a lot of good and a lot of love and support the entire way through and now I'm just in a place for a memory I'll be in
[00:31:28] Denver forever I could be living in the same area around city park for the rest of my life working at the blue bird or the of the blue bird is such a wonderful thing it's my I think it's
[00:31:42] my favorite venue of Denver to be honest it's I hear that a lot which is so it's so nice because that's where I was like the first venue I worked when I started in operations and I just
[00:31:57] doing ten shows a month there every month for a while before I started working the Gothic as well and now when I do work the blue bird it's just this nice release of a walk in and I go
[00:32:08] I know the sounds gonna be amazing yeah I know that ambience is gonna be great we just put a new light second like do rainbow patterns and stuff so that's lovely and I know that the band
[00:32:24] is just gonna be overjoyed so many people just come and play that room and go wow mm-hmm this was very cool I've seen some incredible shows there I have to say one of my favorite
[00:32:41] favorite shows that I've seen was for Neptune's album release that was a very fun show oh my gosh like when the community the way the community will come out too when they have somebody
[00:32:53] from their state doing in the doing and you see these accomplishments it's not and that's another cool thing about Denver is when somebody's on the come up it's not like who did it up by ourselves
[00:33:05] it's like it was impossible without you all being here you know and they always give that honor but Neptune like Rusty Steve just some incredible people their backup dancers are just the sweetest
[00:33:16] folks I think Squizzie Taylor actually there was their DJ for the night but that was one of my favorite shows I still to this day I'm just like wow magic like and I know this person like
[00:33:30] I hug you you're my friend but like when you're up there it's a that's another calibrary you know and then I just got to see a Nico and my auto coming through um oh gosh that show was incredible
[00:33:43] and just like a I mean derail for a second when COVID was happening I saw Nico on TikTok and I was like this is the real human you know I I was discovering so many things about myself
[00:34:01] and I think that just seeing them in their essence existing and going from like being in this tiny little bedroom just like you know making music around the field or whatever they were doing
[00:34:13] you know and frolicking and then like talking wisdom they were literally like right there they were singing into my phone and I was like that's what agey brought in you know like that was
[00:34:26] an a childhood dream for me that was just like you know I changed I became many versions of myself through COVID and then coming out of it like I would have never thought myself to be this
[00:34:35] person and now I get to be in the graces of witnessing two of my favorite artists to get the urge on the stage like salivating yeah it was incredible so that's what I appreciate the
[00:34:48] bluebird for is that like yes it will bring in bigger names or like names that are just like on two or versus like it will give back to its city every time and that's what I really appreciate
[00:34:59] so are we gonna see one at stage that's the dream I know that's right that's the the first the first practice I had with Alana and Co was just like talking about the band and stuff
[00:35:13] and then it might have been that practice had been next practice that it was like oh true like what you do I was like oh I actually you know create an idea this and they were yeah and I said oh
[00:35:25] and I worked the bluebird and Alana immediately was like how do we play the bluebird and I said I said we just gotta play and wait for someone to go hey you could be a good support slot
[00:35:40] or something like that so that's the dream hamster on the wheel here now yes so now now I see all these bands come through and I talk to them and so many of these artists especially
[00:35:51] at a room like the bluebird where it's our smallest venue that age you run in Denver okay and so it's where our first time artists come through unless it's like Olivia Roderie
[00:36:04] go play mission ball right her first tour because she's just that big at that point but yeah a lot of these bands will come through and a lot of them will play the bluebird once in the next time
[00:36:16] you see them there at the goh-oak or the Ogdon they're just they're just on their feet running but then we get some legendary bands like to watch go at us three nights every December
[00:36:27] okay and I got I got lucky enough to work their one last December and that was just incredible magical and it's so cool to see those bands who just want to come back to the bluebird
[00:36:41] they could move up that they would not really prefer the sound of the essence it's a historic it's 110 years old it's been through so many different like life style change yeah
[00:36:54] and it's so cool and especially the green room which is I've said yet to be back there one day it's very my first time down there I was like wow this is very small and the walls are covered with signatures of almost every single act that's played there
[00:37:17] the first one I saw actually was Ed Sheeran which in my brain I was like that's no that's a great song I wouldn't ever thought yeah and then like a man I trust there's there's so many bands down there because everybody started at the bluebird when they came
[00:37:35] through unless they were playing rooms like the summit or my key and stuff those other days yeah I love these ones are volunteers too I love them all I do they're sorry it's such
[00:37:49] impressive I caught him he there is especially when they have both running because then there's an area for me to go in yeah be in my stimulation corner for sure but I love the multiple rooms sorry
[00:38:00] I don't mean to interrupt oh no you're totally fine just as signatures and just like I mean I feel like we could continue going on and on I'm just feeling like this flow here
[00:38:09] which means that you'll be in high demand to come back maybe we can get a band member in here and we can learn more that would be lovely okay I know I know Lana especially she's such a
[00:38:21] wonderful human being and such just a joy to be around and she also just has so many good insights I personally I am very biased okay I think she'd be a wonderful well I like it now I know
[00:38:38] so probably the next time we sit down there's gonna be and I just have a feeling that there's going to be potential of shows that are coming in circulation and maybe that boober to slot is
[00:38:52] going to hit so do you have anything coming up soon like in the next month that y'all are performing or a place that we can find some of that information so yeah the place to find or we post where
[00:39:05] we're gonna play as Elana's Instagram Alana Mars music okay it's all her platforms are that Elana Mars music and she's got a link tree on there as well that shows Apple music Spotify
[00:39:17] okay all that stuff and she loves to post on there all of our shows coming out then her stories updated almost every day okay and our next show is gonna be at high dive July 10 I died too honestly favorite room to play and it's a great spot too
[00:39:35] my gosh and it's next to my favorite vegan spots but we get sputnik every time okay so I'm sorry what day is that so when stage a lie 10 okay and it's with Sarah
[00:39:48] shook okay so we are very excited we're direct support for it we're still figuring out what set we're gonna do because we like to do a one more opening for someone we like to see what their style
[00:40:01] of music is and then do a little you know blend that stuff we are last high dive show we open for a little a curve okay and so that was super country super country crowd so we were our best
[00:40:14] Western formal okay and we covered an old cowboy country blues song this is the start the set and then went into our normal route okay so we're gonna meet and figure out you know what we're
[00:40:29] gonna do for this show okay switch it up a little to lie 10 if you know you're gonna see me there and get tickets through obviously through a lot of Instagram yeah so a lot of it she'll post her
[00:40:41] then know we're just to take it like or something and yeah that peep freeze nice I'm not gonna lie like that peep freeze I love that so many of the Denver biores and promoters and venues
[00:40:54] allow the artist to do that hey a few men mome directly there's no taxes in the fees and any any time in advance yeah so it's a very nice way to especially mobilize the friends and family
[00:41:09] to be like it's fine you don't have to go through take a master in the back and you're directly supporting me you know directly supporting the art yeah I really love that okay so July 10th at high dive
[00:41:21] which is on Broadway I think it's like Broadway and elsewhere almost yes look at me you got that you know I do I've been on these greats okay so with a brilliant conversation that you have
[00:41:36] brought forth today as well as I want to give so much appreciation for you creating space and time for this because you know we barely met and it's just like hey you know I'm gonna throw you in there
[00:41:47] and you were so willing and it was just it's been so lovely but before we wrap up I after hearing all of these accolades and all these brilliant spaces that you've entered and left
[00:42:00] and where you see yourself going what would you say as the person you are right now in this chair what would you say to that younger person that was talking to you earlier first through trends
[00:42:12] that was the first time I saw it like figure it out early come on wake up so first that and then I tell them hey keep doing these things there were many times as a child growing up
[00:42:33] and stuff where I was very ready to put that music in arts and all those kind of now more ADHD like things that I wanted to snap to and do and go for either a more stem around
[00:42:49] and stuff like that which nothing wrong with that at all but I always felt that derived from music and I did I did snap myself a few times just by you know not going for that opportunity or saying
[00:43:05] now we're holding back to a lot of things and not taking those risks and I know every choice I made along that path let me just sit in here talking to such a wonderful human being right now
[00:43:17] giving this opportunity and establishing you know another relationship in this community so I wouldn't say it changed all this but I'd say take those risks and put that passion forward and don't be afraid to create something that feels uncomfortable can you say that one more time now
[00:43:39] don't be afraid to create something that's uncomfortable dive into that feeling explore it don't hurt yourself don't get stuck below those ways don't get caught in the reptile make sure you have
[00:43:51] a rope or life vest but explore that and see where it leads you and see how you wake up the next day and think about how you did that differently and how it might open paths for the way you
[00:44:06] write, create or maybe just interact with the world around you and so's moments in taking those risks that I believe is some of the most beautiful art and senses of being come from them
[00:44:18] I'm just asking are you talking to my inner child because they need to hear that that was thank you thank you for that reflection and letting us join you in the parallel of communicating with your younger self for sure you know because they still exist there they're
[00:44:39] there they're how we got here you know and they need a little bit of tender attention and so a lot of times you know when we don't have like the parent role always around us we get to do
[00:44:52] that for ourselves and so just giving yourself some honor today in hearing how much affection you have for that version of self is really really beautiful and that younger that younger you is going to be
[00:45:05] like scaring you soon while you weigh up on that stage honey. Oh thank you this is just thank you your earnest heart space sharing with me today coming I try not to say so much in
[00:45:20] vulnerability because I think you know sometimes that word gets overused or like used it an interesting time but just thank you so much for coming in in such an open way and allowing
[00:45:33] the conversation to flow and you had no knowledge of what we were even going to talk about. I love that you are a phenomenal conversation with and you never know how a conversation is going
[00:45:45] to go but the way you warmed up and you're just just open about what this entails and even from your first email I was like this sounds really interesting and you seem like an incredibly
[00:45:58] complex and interesting person so I very much appreciate it and I was nervous today I was drinking coffee at work and I'm really typing through it and feeling like oh what is going to happen
[00:46:11] what's this going to be like but sitting down with you here today has been truly wonderful and I feel very comfortable to open up to those topics that with another interviewer who knows
[00:46:26] that might never happen so I appreciate you welcoming me in today with such open arms and an open sound thank you so thank you so my gosh we're good she y'all thank you so much for tuning in this is just again I'm just like grace with getting the
[00:46:46] learn more about my community the ethereal folks that are in it as well as just recognizing that I'm not alone you know I think that I kind of go into these instances where I'm hyperverbal
[00:47:01] and then I'm non-verbal and then it makes me feel very alone and just getting to sit with you today really just like enhanced my awareness around the fact how connected we all really are
[00:47:14] and you we've been brought that connection even more awareness with me getting a witness your art form on Saturday which I will witness again on July 10th. Yes. Oh you've been a see me there
[00:47:30] you'll see guys. So with that being said y'all I hope this resonated I'm not out here trying to do that toxic encouragement thing and this is all how it should go and this is what success
[00:47:44] looks like this is just what it can be when you decide to give your inner child a little bit of attention and acknowledge where you've come from and so getting to sit with true today has been
[00:47:58] an incredible experience I know that we're gonna hear back from you it's gonna be more conversation so be had and so with that I say remember and continue to create earnestly in love
[00:48:14] we'll talk soon. Bye. This is Sarah Hubbard host of UNMI kid a podcast about starting and raising a family on your own. We've just launched season two and I'm speaking with single moms
[00:48:27] those still considering an expert in relevant fields to give you a real sense of what the day to day experience of solo parenting looks and feels like plus this season I've partnered
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