Speaker 1: And time traveling through the memories in my mind and
not to the favery fie and what at like to
remember around the pain, I.
Speaker 2: Can't forget the places, power to face and again.
Speaker 3: It takes me about when I was only five one
and across the house on the bolt of it built.
Speaker 2: Calls were made to all the memories.
Speaker 1: And all I think to speak of things, I would say,
then on that up till modic on way a little dint,
then that's hot of became of favorite as a friends
for a time, a furious cool by.
Speaker 2: Oh how I to relive them?
Speaker 1: All the smuts we took northan sedils, we spoke pols
are haunted by one of fame fall nine one five
was only twelve.
Speaker 2: Rebecames It's a time for more. A series and a chase.
Speaker 4: Came.
Speaker 1: They never listening, and no thing could speak the face
they would say. They put on the games, those on stair,
colored trees, head on the stone.
Speaker 2: I had a lot of.
Speaker 5: Now they just wash away with the mermise we made.
Speaker 2: They turned had to pay it.
Speaker 1: Okay, made noise until one hit made that last day
the play.
Speaker 2: Sweeper was now long for.
Speaker 6: Good.
Speaker 2: Holy twenty three, say goodbye.
Speaker 1: House building seventeen years and that of the birthday. These
balls place quite the trace somewhere.
Speaker 2: And know it's to speak good thing I would say and.
Speaker 6: Drove down off.
Speaker 2: Oh never, that's why I don't know how a boy speak.
Love fair.
Speaker 7: What a beautiful song. That is kat Ivy, who is
with us in studio and we're gonna speak with just
a moment. Welcome everybody. This is our number two New
Marrow dose of Matt Connorton Unleashed, and we are live
from the studios of wm NH ninety five point three
FM on this glorious Saturday, February fifteen, twenty twenty five.
Jenny is here as well, of course, at the news
table and joining us in studio. Kat Ivy is here
with us.
Speaker 8: Good morning morning.
Speaker 7: Hi, are you very well? Very well? You were saying
off air? Excuse me, I have my winter voice as
many of us do. Oh yeah, so you were saying
off air. So this is your your first time doing
a radio interview.
Speaker 8: It is, yeah, baby's first radio interview.
Speaker 7: Oh very cool, very cool. Well, welcome and is that
the first Excuse me? What it's not the first thing
that you've had on YouTube, obviously, but this is a
brand new single, right, this is relatively Yes, this.
Speaker 9: Was I released it back in November. Actually, I released
this on my birthday, November twenty eighth this past which
is also Thanksgiving this year.
Speaker 7: Oh okay, okay, yeah, very cool. How long have you been?
How long have you been active as a singer songwriter
in the area?
Speaker 8: In the area.
Speaker 9: So, honestly, it's funny because I started when I was eighteen,
playing music around like the New England area. Yeah, and
for about like maybe two years I did it, and
then I took a hiatus and traveled and got married
and moved to Hawaii, lived there for a little bit
and then wow, yeah.
Speaker 8: And then twenty twenty three I kind of started to
back up again.
Speaker 9: Yeah, so I've been doing this, I guess now is
like trying to be a full time career around New
England since then.
Speaker 7: Excellent, excellent. How did we How did we meet you?
Speaker 10: Did?
Speaker 7: Did you come to us through Eric?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 7: Come out? Yes, I thought so.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah, he's been on the show a bunch of times
and he's amazing.
Speaker 8: Yeah, he's great, he's great. I'm actually going to play
a show with him.
Speaker 7: So oh no, that's okay, what's that he sends me
the most amazing artists, and your voice is just incredibly
beautiful to listen to.
Speaker 8: I really love you, thank you, thank you so much.
Speaker 7: Yeah. Absolutely. Where was that recorded, by the way, So.
Speaker 9: That's actually recorded in my home studio, which is just
my house. And I worked with a producer in Nashville.
Her name is Abby Lauren and worked on this with me,
and she recorded the instruments for me at her home studio.
Oh no, kidding, Yeah, So we collabed online. It was
just all online.
Speaker 7: So did you do You did the vocals and guitar,
I assume, yeah, and then she did everything else.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 7: No, It's really cool and I would imagine too. I mean,
with just the vocals and guitar, it would sound great,
you know if it were you know, a little bit
stripped down. But the but what she added to it,
the texture, is really cool, especially since when the song starts,
this is just my obsor I overanalyze these things, but
when the song starts, you don't necessarily expect to hear
those additional elements, So then when they kind of come in,
it's like, yeah, that's cool. Yeah, and it sort of
elevates the song as it goes, So that's really nice. Now,
how Abby Lauren that's her name? Yes, okay, and how
did you come to work with her?
Speaker 6: So?
Speaker 9: Actually, I found her on a website called sound Better,
and I was just trying to look for a producer
for that song because that song is very obviously, very
personal to me, and for my other songs, I actually
work with my dad, but this one was a little
bit personal. So I wanted to get a little bit
of an outside perspective on it, and so I went, yeah,
I went on the website sound Better, and I found
her on there, and I messaged her to work with her,
and she accepted, and we've collapsed and we're actually clabbing
on a new song coming up hopefully soon the next
couple of months right now.
Speaker 8: So I'm excited. She's been great to work with.
Speaker 7: Oh excellent, Now sound Better. I feel like I've heard
of sites like that, but I don't think i've heard
of that one exactly. So is it is it a
situation where like you go on there and you present
your music and different producers can kind.
Speaker 9: Of yeah, yeah, So it's kind of like, oh my god,
I can't think of the other website that I want
to think of right now.
Speaker 7: I can't because I know the one I'm thinking. Yeah, yeah,
it's if.
Speaker 9: It's kind of like also if you try to artists
to do work for you. It's kind of something like that.
And I had just came across it. I just typed
in on Google, like producers near me in Boston, and
that website came up and I was like, oh, let
me check it out, and then her picture was one
of the first ones I came up. And I was
looking at other ones, but I really was drawn to
her and her energy, so you know, I was like,
you know what, I'm gonna reach out to her and
send her my demo and yeah, so if they accept it,
they'll let you know, and you kind of have to just.
Speaker 8: Work through the website.
Speaker 9: Okay, so that way, like you know, if anything weird happens,
like there's some liability there.
Speaker 7: Yeah, but yeah, yeah that makes sense. So you're gonna
work with her on the next one as well?
Speaker 8: Yes, okay, yes, I'm currently doing that right now.
Speaker 2: Oh you are? Yeah?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 9: Is it is?
Speaker 7: It kind of a similar process where you're doing the
vocals and guitar and then she's going to add elements.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 9: We'd go on a zoom call beforehand and we kind
of talk about, you know, go through the song and
talk about like what we want in it and what
how do you think it would sound.
Speaker 7: And yeah, all that so outstanding. Yeah, you mentioned working
with your dad, So dad also recorded some of your
your previous songs.
Speaker 9: Yes, so my songs Indiana Jones and Memory Lane that
I have out as well. He was the one that
produced with me on those songs. So he used to
be a musician himself. His band in the eighties was
called Explicit.
Speaker 7: Okay, and I that name has come up on the
show before.
Speaker 12: Oh really, it's like Explicit, Yeah, okay, there's somebody who
has been on the show who either either was in
that band or had a probably more.
Speaker 7: Likely had a parent. Yeah, yeah, okay, because I swear
that name has come up before. That's interesting.
Speaker 8: That's so funny.
Speaker 9: That would be fun I mean, I know that some
of the band members do live around here, so I'm
not surprised that did come up.
Speaker 7: It makes sense.
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, so he used to be in that band,
and then you know, I kind of came along and
he'd stopped music for a while to you know, support
the family, and when I, like, I had some interest
in doing music, he was obviously super excited and he
started working on these songs with me as well. And
he also plays like the instruments and stuff too, and yeah,
so it's been a learning process.
Speaker 8: With us both for that as well.
Speaker 7: What he does, he play guitar, he.
Speaker 9: Does, he plays guitar, He does a lot of like keyboards.
I was I think his main instrument was keyboard.
Speaker 8: He was in the band.
Speaker 9: He doesn't do any of the singing, so I didn't
get that from him. I did get that from my mom.
Who's I think listening right now, So shout out to
my mom. Okay, but yeah I got my singing from
her and the instruments from him.
Speaker 7: Yeah. Well, coming from a musical family, yeah, it was
bound to you.
Speaker 8: Know that you would, it was bound to stick at
some point.
Speaker 7: Yeah, No, that's cool. Did he teach you how to
play guitar or did you take lessons or did you
learn on your own?
Speaker 9: So he bought me my first guitar when I was
five years old. There's some videos of me like trying
to play, obviously not doing it very well, like an
electric little mini red Fender guitar. Yeah, and then around
twelve years old, since I was still expressing really interest
in wanting to learn, they put me in some lessons.
Speaker 7: Okay, yeah, okay, yeah. Do you like when did you
start writing your own songs? Do you know? Around what
age you?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 9: So around also twelve years old is when I started
writing lyrics to songs. I was going through a lot
of you know, just stuff in my home life and
you know, in my personal life and everything, and I
didn't really know how to express my feelings. So actually
I learned from my favorite band, whose Life House, And
they've been my favorite band for a long time. The
singer would say that his therapy was writing music. Okay,
so because they were such an idol to me, that
was like, all right, let me try that. So I
started writing lyrics just to kind of get my feelings
out of like you know, home stuff, personal stuff, and
then maybe like boys or whatever, you know, just like
small twelve year old things. And I kind of grew
with me as I got older, and it's now a
therapy to me. I don't think I could live without
doing it.
Speaker 7: Yeah. Do you remember the first song you ever wrote?
Speaker 9: I actually, the first song I ever wrote with music
attached to it because I for a long time I
just wrote lyrics and like, maybe someday I'll go back
to those. But yeah, I think the first song I
ever wrote with music was about a boy that I
liked in eighth grade.
Speaker 8: And there's still a video of me, Like I didn't
post it anywhere.
Speaker 9: Yeah, there's still a video I have of me on
my computer singing that song because I was gonna try
and be brave, but I'm kind of glad I didn't.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm trying to remember now, Life House, what was
their big breakout hit? When when they because I remember
a Life House or yeah, I can't, but I'm drying
a blank on Uh what they what? When? When did
they get big? Like early two thousands?
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, it was like the like two thousand, like
two thousand and two thousand and one. Their first hit
was Hanging by a Moment.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, yeah it was it was
in it was in there, but I couldn't quite recall. Okay,
So that was their big breakout, but they had they
had other hits.
Speaker 9: Right, yeah they You and Me another huge hit for
them back in like two thousand and five. Yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, yeah,
first time was a big hit.
Speaker 7: Yep, I remember that one now yeah yeah, so very.
Speaker 9: Much like in the two thousand, between two thousand and
twenty ten, like they had their like prime yeahs.
Speaker 7: Yeah yeah. Are they still together?
Speaker 9: No, I don't think they're like they never said they
broke up per se. But I know the lead singer,
Jason Wade, does do solo shows right now. I actually
just went to his solo show back in November. I
think he played in was its Massachusetts somewhere I forget
exactly where it was, but it was awesome.
Speaker 8: Honestly.
Speaker 9: It was such an intimate show too, Like he just
had him and his guitar and his other bandmate and
his guitar and just oh.
Speaker 8: Cool saying songs that we knew, and it was really awesome.
Speaker 7: Do they do Just Life House?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 8: And then he has his own solo stuff as well
that he's been doing.
Speaker 7: So did you get to meet him?
Speaker 8: I've met him a few times actually, yeah.
Speaker 9: I have been able to tell him that he's been
an inspiration to me and his songs have been, you know,
helpful for me going through my life.
Speaker 8: So that's an awesome one. And he's so nice, super nice.
Speaker 9: Yeah, that's cool, and that's such an inspiration to me
as well as being a musician myself, you know, like
having those experiences and meeting your idols as musicians, because
sometimes you know, it's not good to meet your idols,
but I thankfully had such a great experience with them
that it's shaped me for sure.
Speaker 7: No, that's really good. Yeah, because they you know, they
always say, don't meet your heroes. Yeah, but but sometimes
it actually does turn out well.
Speaker 9: Yeah, so far I've had some good experiences, so hopefully
that keeps going.
Speaker 7: That's awesome. Now do you play, So you play guitar?
Do you play anything in addition to guitar?
Speaker 9: No, right now, just guitar. I am learning piano. I
do wish I was better at piano. I kicked myself
sometimes for not learning earlier. But yeah, yeah, so kind
of just guitar, singing, writing, Yeah.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 7: And when you play out, is it always just you?
Or do you have does anyone join you?
Speaker 8: No, it's it's just me. Yeah, even like bringing my
own equipment inside.
Speaker 9: Actually, I had some really nice people last night who
I played at the Steelheel Resort at their Tova tavern,
the Little bar area.
Speaker 8: It's like up near Laconia.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I had this really awesome group of people help
me bring my equipment outside after the show. Because usually
it's just me carrying all my heavy stuff. I'm just like,
all right, yeah, I'm to go now, you know. But
they were like, we can't watch you bring these out
by yourself.
Speaker 8: We're going to help you. And I loved That's so
so nice. I just I'm so thankful for people like that.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that is really cool. How much How many songs
do you have in terms of original material, like when
you go to play live, how many do you have
to play?
Speaker 8: I've quite a bit. I'd say I have probably like
twelve ready.
Speaker 9: Obviously I don't have that many out right now as
I'm like currently working on the process of recording those.
Speaker 8: Yeah, but yeah, i'd say about twelve thirteen.
Speaker 7: Maybe do you do you must do some covers you
would imagine, Oh, of course, yeah.
Speaker 9: I do definitely mostly covers, just because you know, it's
good to play what people know. Yeah, and then I
try to put in at least like three or four
of my original songs in there as well.
Speaker 7: What do you do for covers? I'm always curious because
I've always my theory has always been you can kind
of learn a lot about someone's influences by the covers
that they play.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, oh my god.
Speaker 9: I'd say it's a range, but definitely early two thousands,
kind of like you know, the lifehouse type genre, you know,
like stuff that was popular like Coldplay, Lifehouse, Nickelback, which
I know people have some mixed feelings on Niccleback.
Speaker 8: I personally thought they were a great band.
Speaker 9: Yeah, Taylor Swift obviously, and like you know, some of
the new stuff from like Sabrina Carpenter and all that,
and then some country in there as well. I try
to really do a good mix, but a lot of
popular songs that people will be like, oh, I forgot
about this one.
Speaker 7: Yeah. Yeah. Nickelback does get a lot of hate, and
yeah they have for a long time. And it's but
it's almost like it's it's almost like it's not real,
like like at a certain point it just became cool.
Speaker 8: Yeah, Nickelback, it was a Vandwagon thing for sure.
Speaker 7: Yeah. It's like, uh, but sometimes too, these things kind
of come around, Like I remember, not not that long go,
when it was cool to hate to hate Limp Biscuit yeah, yeah,
and now it's like cool to like limp biscuits.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 8: It's kind of like.
Speaker 9: The trends, right, like the clothing trends too, where something
was cool back in the day and then people made
fun of it and then it starts to get become
cool again. It's in thrift soars and you know, everyone's like, oh,
I need that new thing right right?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Now, what are your kind of your your long term
plans and goals have you? Do you plan to tour?
Do you plan to find that?
Speaker 13: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm curious and I don't know if you've thought
that far. I mean sometimes when you're you know, when
you're working as a musician, sometimes you almost can't plan
too far ahead because things are so unpredictable.
Speaker 9: But yeah, yeah, honestly I do try to think about it,
but then I also try not to think about it
too much, yeah, because then I'll get in my own
head if like maybe a timeline thing didn't happen quite yet.
Speaker 8: Yeah, but of course I would love to tour.
Speaker 9: That's like my big goal is to tour on my
original music and to have an audience for my original music.
That's always been my goal since I started doing music. Yeah,
so that would be awesome and amazing for sure.
Speaker 7: Yeah. Who is kind of your your dream like national
act to tour with? Like do you have do you
have somebody in mind who you'd really love to open for?
Speaker 8: NOA Kon? For sure?
Speaker 7: I'm not sure who that is.
Speaker 8: Oh, he's from Vermont and New Hampshire.
Speaker 9: Actually he grew up in oh, I think Upward, New Hampshire,
I forget the town. But then he moved to Vermont
and his newest album is called Sixth Season and it's
talking about basically living in New England and living in
Vermont and stuff.
Speaker 7: And oh, we gotta get him on the show NOA
Kon I.
Speaker 9: Mean, yeah, he's gotten pretty big recently. He actually played
at Fenway last year. Yeah, and it was an amazing show.
Speaker 8: I went to that. But yeah, oh my god, if
I could open for NOA Kon that would be great.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 7: Any anybody else you kind of have in mind who
you'd like to open for?
Speaker 8: Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 9: I mean obviously there's some amazing you know, musicians around
New Hampshire as well, Like I would love to play
a show like re Becca Termol. Yeah, you know, I'm
gonna be I think playing a show with Katie Dobbins
because I know she's awesome too.
Speaker 7: Oh, very cool. Yeah, she's she's been so I haven't
seen her in probably two or three years, but she's
she's been on the show a couple of times. And
Rebecca Turmel she was on maybe six months ago, okay,
and she's yeah, she's amazing.
Speaker 9: Yeah, And I think I'm playing a show in April
Aprily Teeth. I want to say with Temple Mountain too,
so I'll be opening for an activist, so that'll be cool.
But any like national Ones, I don't know. I feel
like I like a lot of people that are really big.
I guess I could dream big, but you know, sometimes
like I don't know, but I know there's this artist
in uh I think based in Los Angeles. Her name
is Blue Eyes, okay, and I get a lot of
my inspiration from her music too, And I you know,
she was doing some tour with Hunter Hayes. I want
to say opening for him, so, I mean that would
be really cool because I love her stuff too.
Speaker 7: Yeah, when you do play out, do you are you
able to like, do you get out of New England
at all?
Speaker 8: Or are you not yet I will.
Speaker 9: I've been looking actually recently in like obviously Nashville to
see if there's like some things I could try and
you know, kind of dip my toes in in there.
Speaker 8: I know it's a huge, big world over there. Yeah,
but I would love to go down in Nashville.
Speaker 7: Yeah. A lot of our guests have done that, and
and the stories and the experiences they have are generally positive,
because I would imagine it would be intimidating, you know, yeah,
oh yeah, but uh, but most people seem to find
it pretty more welcoming than they necessarily expect and out good. Yeah.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 7: And the producer that that that you're you've been working.
Speaker 8: I'm sorry, what name Lauren?
Speaker 7: Abby? Lauren?
Speaker 9: Yes?
Speaker 7: Has she has? She talked to you about that, like
trying to get you to go down there a little bit.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean she's definitely.
Speaker 9: I asked her some advice, you know, and she said that, I,
you know, to do a lot more like singer Songwriter
Nights and a lot more of that kind of stuff.
Speaker 8: And yeah, I.
Speaker 9: Haven't asked her the exact places, but I probably should, Yeah,
to see like if she recommend anywhere I can try.
Speaker 7: Yeah, got to go yeah, yeah, no doubt, I think
we should play. So you've got more, You've got a
couple of other songs online, and I think we should
play this because partly because I'm curious to ask you
about it. Sure, Indiana Jones, Yeah, tell us about this
song because obviously, you know, people know Indiana Jones before
the movie. And yeah, you know, I'm old enough to remember.
When I was a kid, my dad took me to
see the original Indiana Jones movie Lot of Stark. Yeah, yeah,
but tell us about this song.
Speaker 9: So, yeah, Indiana Jones. Well, you know the name is
has the movie involved. It is not really about the movie,
but it did take inspiration from the movie. Okay, So
the the part of the movie, which is the most
popular part where you know, Indy goes into the tomb
and he takes the artifact and he replaces it with
the bag of sand yep. I kind of related that
to how time takes things from people in your life
and tries to kind of replace it with something else,
but nothing could ever truly fill that void.
Speaker 11: You know.
Speaker 9: It's like if someone passes from your life, right and
maybe like a friend or something, and maybe you meet
another friend later on in life.
Speaker 8: They kind of remind you of that friend.
Speaker 9: They kind of start feeling that not they feeling the place,
but you know, kind of reminding you of how that
friend made you feel.
Speaker 8: But it's never going to truly feel that void.
Speaker 9: And I feel like time does that with a lot
of things, where it takes things from you and a
lot of things change.
Speaker 8: And during that I thought that it's always.
Speaker 9: Nice to kind of think of things that say the same,
like it's always going to rain, the sun's always going
to come out in the same way. The song that
you heard back in nineteen ninety nine still sounds the
same to this day, you know, so you kind of
have to pick out the things that are saying the
same to help you go through the change in your life.
Speaker 8: Yeah, kind of what that's about.
Speaker 7: No, And that's very relatable. And I think too, you know,
you mentioned like a song you heard back in ninety nine.
I mean, that's that's very relatable for people. I think
that's a big part of why. I mean, it's funny.
I was saying to somebody just recently, there are some
things I'll hear that I liked a lot long time ago,
and some things I'll hear that I liked a long
time ago, and I'll go, wow, I used to like that, really,
but yeah, but then there's other things you know that
I'll hear that I liked a long time ago, that
I'll hear them now and I love them as much
as the first time I heard them, Right, And I
think that, and I think that's kind of part of
what what you're Oh, yeah exactly, Yeah, I think, And
I think music is probably the single greatest example of that.
You know, you hear, you hear something you love from
a long time ago, and it's it's there's almost a comfort.
Speaker 9: To it, Yeah exactly, And that's kind of what that's about.
Just kind of find comfort in that.
Speaker 7: Very cool, very cool. All right, So let's give this
a spin. So this is called Indiana Jones and if
you are just joining us, kat Ivy is here with
us live in studio, and uh, let's give this a listen.
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Speaker 7: Jo and that is kat Ivy who is here with
us in studio on this Saturday morning, And yeah, very
cool song. Are people able to.
Speaker 11: Do?
Speaker 7: People ever talk to you about the song and kind
of know without you explaining it.
Speaker 4: What the.
Speaker 11: You know?
Speaker 2: I don't really know.
Speaker 9: I do when I play out, I like to kind
of give a little brief of you know, what I'm singing,
especially since people don't know my music mostly and I
want to give away for them to connec to it,
you know, especially if they're hearing it.
Speaker 8: For the first time.
Speaker 9: Yeah, but I also love to leave it up to interpretation,
you know. I would love to have someone listen to
my song and maybe put it into their own life,
even if it's not at all what I wrote it about,
if they can relate to it in any way.
Speaker 8: Yeah, that's that's my you know, that's my dream.
Speaker 7: No, that's cool. I've always thought when uh, you know,
if I really if I really love a song and
it means something to me, and then I hear I
don't know if this has ever happened to you, but
when I hear, then I hear the person who wrote
it explain it, and it turns out that what they
had in mind was something completely different from what it
means to me. There's that there's that weird sensation of
oh right, you know, and then and it shouldn't be
like that because it doesn't matter, because art is subjective
anyway exactly. Everything is whatever it means to you. That's
what it means to you, exactly. But I but I've
always kind of had that since I was a kid,
like on the and it's not like it happens much,
but on those rare occasions where someone explains the song
and it's like, oh.
Speaker 8: Really, yeah, you're like, wait a minute, that it wasn't
at all what I thought that was.
Speaker 9: And you know, it does, I feel, as much as
you don't want it to, it does kind of tarnish
it a little bit for you, you know, and you
know that's not what I want to do, but you know,
being such a smaller artist right now, I think it's
important to kind of try and make those connections with
people explaining where I'm coming from, yea, and hoping that
you know, I don't have to do it so much soon.
Speaker 7: Right right, right exactly. So you're working on so do
you have plans to I know, because you're already working
on the that's in progress right the next song that
you're doing with why I have a mental bloby lord
Abby Lauren have this mental black with her name. Do
you have what's kind of the long term plan as
far as releasing music? Do you plan to do an
album or are you gonna keep doing singles?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 9: So, actually I'm hoping to you know, the songs that
I have Indiana Jones, Memory Lane and autumn and then
the songs I'm currently working on. I'm hoping to create
an EP called Nostalgia, Okay, and I have about I
think two more songs, so I'm working on one with
her and I'm working on one with my dad currently,
so I'm working on two right now. Yeah, and those
two are going to complete the EP called Nostalgia, which
you know, nostalgia has been a huge part of my life,
like growing up, especially being in your twenties. It's kind
of that weird transition from being a younger kid to adulthood,
so you're like, what do I do now, you know,
and you have a lot of like, oh, I miss
those times when I was a kid. Things were easier,
you know, especially in the world right now. Sometimes it's
like you go to a nostalgia for a comfort a lot,
and I feel like that happened to me. So that's
why I am naming this one nostalgia.
Speaker 7: Okay, Okay, yeah, no, that's cool. Do you are you
also planning to continue to do the solo acoustic performances
or do you ever think about maybe having some sort
of backup band or anything like that.
Speaker 8: Or yeah, I mean, of course, you know, solo is
where I do thrive. But I would love to have
a backup band. I would love to, especially like going
on a tour or something.
Speaker 9: I would love to have a little bit of extra
support and you know, to be able to kind of
put on a show, because you do get a little
limited when it's just you right right, And I think
that would be so fun.
Speaker 8: I would love to have a band to go on
tour with.
Speaker 7: But it looks like too, it's liberating in a way
at the same time when it's just you because you
don't have to worry about anybody else's schedule.
Speaker 8: Right, and all that right to you, and it is
just relying on yourself.
Speaker 7: I've always wondered what that would be like because I
used to you know, like you know, your dad played
in a band. I used to play in a lot
of bands, but I never I was never in a
situation where I just did a solo thing. So I've
never experienced what it's like when you're just kind of
when when you you know, not having to check with
you know, okay, is this person available for this show?
All that, and you know, and of course too, when
it's just you, it opens up I think more places
that you can play because obviously a lot of places
you can't have a full.
Speaker 8: Band, of course.
Speaker 9: Yeah, And you know, obviously, being in yourself, you make
the decisions, and you know, it's like if something goes bad,
it's on you, you know, or something goes great, it's
on you too, And you know. But I would also
sometimes going into performances or anything like that, sometimes like,
oh I kind of wish I had like a partner, yeah,
you know, just to be like if I'm nervous, at
least I have a little bit of like a support
or someone there.
Speaker 8: But I think it feels character to do it by yourself.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, no doubt. When you uh, do you do
long like three hour shows, when you do a lot
a lot of covers, Yeah.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, that's that's mostly.
Speaker 7: That's mostly what you're doing.
Speaker 13: Yeah.
Speaker 7: No, that's good though. It's good experience and it's yeah,
you make some good money doing that, so that's that's excellent.
Do you do you ever have an opportunity to do
shows where it's more like almost like a listening room
type thing where you're able to just focus on the
original music.
Speaker 9: Yeah, so that's what I'm doing with Temple Mountain on
April eighteenth, we're doing I think the Prayers of Nature
Listening Room.
Speaker 7: Fantastic they were they were here last week.
Speaker 9: Oh okay, that's awesome. Yeah, we're doing that on April eighteen,
so that'll be exciting.
Speaker 7: Excellent.
Speaker 9: Yeah, and then some maybe singer songwriter things come in
the way. You know that it hasn't been announced yet,
so I don't want to say it pretymature, okay, okay,
but some good stuff coming, yeah, I'm hoping.
Speaker 7: So yeah, excellent, excellent. Where should people go online to
keep up with everything that you're doing?
Speaker 9: So I'm on all the socials cat Ivy Music with
a K. I like to do you know, some daily
v logs too. When I play gigs, I like to
kind of show my like day in the life of
singer songwriter in New Hampshire.
Speaker 8: You know, those are fun to do.
Speaker 9: And then you know on Facebook, I have my own
website cativy music dot com as well.
Speaker 7: Yeah. Excellent, excellent. Do you have anything this weekend that
you're playing that that we should.
Speaker 8: Plug or I don't this weekend, but I do next Saturday.
Speaker 9: I'm playing at Twin Barnes Brewery in north Woodstock in
New Hampshire. So I'll be up by the mountains. Oh yeah,
I'll be playing there. I leave it's five clock five
to eight five.
Speaker 7: I have to check. Oh okay, and what is the
name of the place again.
Speaker 8: Twin Barnes Brewery.
Speaker 9: They have two locations, ones of Meredith and this one's
in north Woodstock And there got that from New Hampshire
Music Collective.
Speaker 7: Oh okay, very good. Now do you work with the
Music Collective?
Speaker 8: Yes, excellent, just started this year.
Speaker 7: Oh very good. Yeah, yeah, that's that's that's excellent. That's
we had on John. I'm having trouble with names this morning.
Speaker 8: It happens.
Speaker 7: What's his name, John from the Music Collective?
Speaker 9: Oh yeah, yeah, Oh my god, don't ask me because
now my brain's like I forgot everything I've ever known.
I know.
Speaker 7: It's I blame the weather. John MacArthur. Yes, yeah. We
had John on the show a while ago, and you know,
talking all about the collective and everything, and wow, that
guy's busy. Like when he was going on, oh yeah,
when he was talking about the number of events that
he like that he himself has to run over the
course of a year.
Speaker 8: We we're like, wow, yeah, And I think they just
got some more too recently, so he's been a busy guy.
Speaker 7: Yeah, they're doing great stuff. Yeah, New Hampshire Music Collective.
Absolutely we support them. And yeah, we got to get
him back on because I'm sure he has a ton
of new stuff to talk about.
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, yeah, oh yeah, you can get him going.
I'm sure.
Speaker 7: No, that's great that you're working with them. That's fantastic.
Speaker 8: Yeah, they're awesome, you know, John and Reva, they're great.
Speaker 7: Absolutely, absolutely, Well, I think we should, uh, we'll close
out the segment with another song here, memory Lane. Anything
we should know about.
Speaker 9: This or that you want to well, I mean, memory
Lane does kind of say what it is in its title.
You know, it is about going down memory lane and
kind of having all of the good and the bad
things in your life create you to who you are,
whether you like it or not, you know, and underlyingly,
I did write it about how me and my husband
met in my own memory lane and how I've gone
down that a lot and my life from those moments.
Speaker 8: And you're living those really happy, fun moments when.
Speaker 9: You need to.
Speaker 14: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah, very cool, very cool, very positive, excellent, excellent, So
we will we will end the segment with this and
if you are listening live on Saturday, of course we
have the two's coming up next, but we'll give this
a spin and kat Ivy, thank you again so much.
Speaker 8: Thank you for having me absolutely much fun.
Speaker 7: Absolutely we'll do this again in the future as you
have new music coming out and we'll definitely have you back.
And so we'll wrap up this segment with this. This
is called memory Lane.
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blash and just get.
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bad yourself.
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many of it.
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way your head.
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