Matt Connarton Unleashed: Kat Ivy

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Speaker 2: Sweeper was now long for.

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Speaker 2: And know it's to speak good thing I would say and.

Speaker 6: Drove down off.

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Speaker 2: 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.

Speaker 7: 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.

Speaker 9: 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.

Speaker 9: 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.

Speaker 7: 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.

Speaker 7: 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.

Speaker 9: 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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