Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: Okay, you guys, today, very, very excited to introduce you all to three amazing women. Okay, so the themes for today's show, friendship, getting outside your comfort zone and rocking out. If any of these themes seem interesting to you, you're going to want to listen today on the midlife Happiness project.
Well, hi, I am Sarah, and welcome back to the Midlife Happiness project. I'd like to introduce Luisa, Trisalyn and Liz.
And I'm going to let them tell you about their.
That thing that they have kind of come together and courageously put together. And this is really exciting. Well, first of all, welcome, ladies.
[00:01:01] Speaker B: Well, thank you.
[00:01:02] Speaker C: Thanks for having us.
[00:01:03] Speaker B: We're well excited to be here.
[00:01:05] Speaker A: What is your thing? What is that thing that's really made you guys happy?
[00:01:13] Speaker B: Well, we decided to form a band. So we are three musicians in singers and a band together.
[00:01:21] Speaker A: Awesome. Awesome. Okay, well, I guess I have to ask, was this something that you guys independently knew you wanted to do? Did you seek each other out or did this just sort of find you? How did this all come together?
[00:01:41] Speaker D: Well, for me, it was kind of an end of COVID project to get back into playing music. And so I actually am the least experienced musician of the group, but had, like, started guitar lessons again and. But it was lonely. I really wanted people to play with. I actually am not that good on guitar, but I really like to sing. And so I was kind of keeping my eye out for people to play music with. And Louise and I have sons that are similar ages. And one day, she actually. One of the weird things during COVID is no parents actually ever came to the door. They just texted their kids and their kids came running out.
[00:02:16] Speaker B: That's still a thing. And so, yeah, we don't meet parents anymore.
[00:02:19] Speaker D: No parents.
[00:02:20] Speaker B: It's weird.
[00:02:20] Speaker D: And so it was sort of strange that you came to the door and I had, like, all my instruments all over, and Louise is like, hey, who's playing music around here? And I was like, me, and I really want to do an open mic night. And she was like, I've got you in a week. We could do it, but it would have took us a year.
[00:02:36] Speaker B: It took us a year. Yeah. Yeah.
[00:02:39] Speaker A: I.
[00:02:40] Speaker B: So I have been. I've been a cellist for my whole life. And I took a huge gap in my cello playing.
You know, I was in a. In a marriage, and we went to. We lived in the Peace Corps. We were in China in the Peace Corps, and I didn't play the cello at all. And I came back and I've just missed music has been a huge part of my life, and I missed it so much, and I started playing music around with some other folks, and it just wasn't working for me. So I was ready to play again, and I was looking for a strong women. I was looking for women to. And people who identify as women to play with. And when I. It was our first time we met, right? Yeah. When I came up to the door, and she had, like. And she does. She has tons of instruments behind her. I was like, wait, who?
And then I met this woman. Well, no, we've known each other for.
[00:03:32] Speaker C: A while, so I had known Luisa for several years. We had bumped into each other many times as educators and also as trail runners. We literally run into each other and knew that we were both musicians but never had the thought of playing together, I guess.
[00:03:49] Speaker B: Well, I don't know if it was not a thought.
I think it was. I was nervous to play with you because you're such a good musician and she's such a good trail runner. So I was nervous about it, to be quite frankenous.
[00:04:05] Speaker C: But then one day, we stumbled into each other, and she just asked me out of the blue, would you ever play in an all female band? And I said, I sure would.
And that's how it happened.
[00:04:17] Speaker B: And our first time playing together, we came actually in. So we're in Tris. Excuse me. We're on Liz's classroom. Liz is a music teacher at Monroe elementary school here in Santa Barbara, a.
[00:04:31] Speaker C: Gem on the mesa.
[00:04:36] Speaker B: I had no idea.
And we came in here, and we were all nervous. You.
I could see I changed my clothes.
[00:04:43] Speaker D: Like, three times before I came to that first practice. Cause I was so nervous.
[00:04:47] Speaker B: I know. And everyone's. We had these, like. I don't know, speaking from my own experience. I had a really somber face. Cause I was like, oh, God, I hope we can do this. And you guys both played the guitar, and I thought, oh, gosh, is it gonna work that you both play the guitar? What are we gonna do?
[00:05:03] Speaker D: Well, I think originally I was supposed to play guitar, and you and Liz was supposed to play bass. Yeah, but now I play bass, and Liz plays guitar.
[00:05:13] Speaker A: This is awesome. So, okay, so you decide to put this band together. Great. And obviously, you're gelling. You like each other personally, but at this point, I assume you don't know how this is gonna, like, go with you guys musically. I mean, I'm not a musician, but I'm just guessing you can take three musicians, put them together. That doesn't necessarily make for a band.
[00:05:38] Speaker B: That is correct. Yes.
You can be a fabulous musician, each one of you, but it's all about your connection and the rapport, your personalities.
You know, we just had no idea how it was going to work, but I. We had. I think it was.
Was. It was the name of that song that you say, oh, stay, stay.
[00:06:02] Speaker D: Well, we.
[00:06:02] Speaker A: Oh, I know the one.
[00:06:03] Speaker D: Yeah. It's always awkward to figure out, well, what are we gonna play? And everyone's sort of looking at each other, and then all of a sudden, Liz starts playing stay by Lisa Loeb. And it was up on my iPad as my next song I was planning to learn, and we were like, what?
[00:06:16] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:06:17] Speaker D: Let's play that one. So it's a good start.
[00:06:20] Speaker C: Brought together by Lisa Loeb.
[00:06:22] Speaker B: Thank you, Lisa Loeb. In the nineties. In my early nineties childhood.
[00:06:27] Speaker A: Before we go on, so you got to tell everybody, first of all, let's start with the name of your band.
[00:06:34] Speaker B: So we are strings and arrows, which is a reference to slings and arrows from Hamlet and Shakespeare. And it took us months to come up with. Was it months to come up with a name? We were constantly, you know, texting each other, group together. And how about this one? How about that one? How about that one? We have to look it up. No, that's already taken. How about this one? No, that one means it's too crappy or it doesn't have any meaning. And. And that one came out. I studied Shakespeare in my undergrad in London in England, and that Shakespeare is. I have such a connection to it, and that was the one we settled on has a lot of meaning for us because it's, you know, arrows into our future and all our possibilities working together. And strings.
[00:07:24] Speaker A: Okay, so.
[00:07:25] Speaker C: And reference to slings. Overcoming hardship and.
[00:07:27] Speaker B: Yeah, and the reference.
[00:07:28] Speaker A: Right. Gotcha. Okay, so this is all coming about during COVID You found each other. You formed this. This friendship, this bond. Your music's coming together. It's great. But let me ask you, what was the catalyst for this? What was it about? Was it just simply, you know, you're three musicians, and you're looking for an opportunity to play in front of an audience, or did you. Were you in a place in your life that you were like, I need to mix it up. I need to do something different?
[00:08:06] Speaker D: Yeah. I think for me, you know, I hadn't lived in Santa Barbara that long. I had moved a couple of years prior, and I. It was kind of about knowing that it was time to build some social connection. And also, my kids are getting bigger you know, they don't need as much, as much time. And so I was kind of ready to find something new and interesting to do and to have it be outside of my house and to be interacting with other people.
[00:08:33] Speaker B: I just needed something really positive, especially with women.
And this was after Covid, when we were really getting back into the swing of things. And I just. I needed some good friends that I really could rely on. And I, you know, not to say that I don't have good friends, but, like, I really wanted some powerful women to be able to play music with. And that was really my goal. That was my goal. And I didn't have, like, aspirations to go be this big band and be famous and go play all these different gigs. And it was just about the music itself for me.
[00:09:07] Speaker C: And I'm of the personality type where, you know, I'm very pre planned, I'm very check the boxes and make sure I know what's going on. Very controlled all the time.
But, you know, I'm 39 and single, ready to mingle, and just thought, I'm never going to meet anybody.
At Monroe elementary school, she asked me, I was like, I never say yes to things like this. Yes. Because I never do. Yeah. Gem on the mesa.
[00:09:36] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:09:37] Speaker C: Yes.
[00:09:39] Speaker A: I like this and I like that. The takeaway for me from this is that, you know, it's one thing when you just meet some people and you decide to collaborate, and one thing just leads to another, but you guys were, you know, looking for something and you found each other and you were all on the same page. And certainly I appreciate sort of the sort of feminine forward bent to all this, which is great. Okay, so here's the thing. Please describe for us the first time you guys actually ever, ever played in front of an audience.
[00:10:16] Speaker B: Okay, so a little background when we came into this, I've played in other bands where, you know, all the music equipment is there. We know how to use the equipment. I would just show up and just, oh, you know, let's do this. And we didn't have any of that stuff. We didn't have these microphones. We didn't have any of the pas. We didn't know how to use any of it. We just were like, cool, we'll figure all that out on the go. Well, and then our first real gig together was we were playing at a running festival that Liz and I always run in. It was pretty low stakes, so because it was just a bunch of our running friends, but it didn't go very well.
It was pretty bad.
And at the end. We got through it, right? Isn't that how you'd say it? We got through it. But we were actually, Liz and I stood there talking, thinking, should we even continue? Do you remember that? Like, is this even worth it? I mean, it was so bad.
[00:11:19] Speaker D: Okay, but if we're gonna talk about the worst one.
[00:11:22] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, no, that wasn't even the.
[00:11:23] Speaker D: Worst one was when it was like, I don't know how many we've done. We've done a couple, but we played at a pub in Goleta, like, at a brew pub in Glida. And we were so excited. We really felt like we had this, dialed in, got this, and we invited every single person that we knew. Well, I did anyway.
And then we could not get the sound working. The equipment wouldn't work.
[00:11:46] Speaker B: It was feeding back. No one could hear us.
[00:11:49] Speaker D: I, like, was so stressed, I knocked my microphone over. It was like an absolute debacle. I didn't sleep for two nights because I was just, like, full of shame.
[00:11:57] Speaker B: Yeah. And all of our friends were there, people that we actually cared about. I don't know. It just was not great.
[00:12:06] Speaker C: But it's all part of the learning curve. And, you know, when you're in a band, it's the music, the relationships, and it's also all the technology that goes on the backside.
[00:12:14] Speaker A: Well, here's the thing. I mean, it's one thing that it was a disaster, but if it was such a disaster, maybe you'd never do it again. So there was obviously something. Something happened or was happening, you recognized was happening that it's like, we're not quitting.
[00:12:31] Speaker D: Well, but also, Louisa was looking for strong women, and we were. I was like, this is not how we will go down.
[00:12:37] Speaker B: Well. And, you know, as I said, liz is a. She's a teacher. I'm a behavior specialist. Work with some very challenging individuals in my life and my bandmates. And then tris here, she works in the geography department at UCSB, and we've just, you know, we do a lot of hard stuff, right. And this wasn't going to knock us down, although we had to get over the initial shock of how bad it was. But once we did, it's like, we can do this and we learn from it. My partner is our sound engineer, and he's learning along with us, and we're really growing well.
[00:13:14] Speaker C: I think we all felt like we've seen other bands do this. We're very capable women. If they can do it, we can definitely figure this out.
[00:13:22] Speaker B: Well, and also, you know, the music industry, especially the way that we play, is a very male and dominated industry. And you very rarely see an all female band like this. And I, you know, it's true. If they can do it, we can definitely do this. Right?
[00:13:38] Speaker A: And I guess, you know, you guys are up for a challenge because obviously it's, you know, what you guys are doing. It takes such courage. I have so many friends who play an instrument or, like, you know, sing, and they're like, oh, my God, in another life, I would love to be in a band, but, I mean, clearly that's never going to happen. I could never imagine doing anything like this.
Would you say that in your normal life? Are you guys really outgoing people, or does this sort of you transition into this other person when you get on stage?
[00:14:18] Speaker D: I think we're sitting in the order of our outgoingness from most outgoing to least outgoing.
[00:14:24] Speaker B: Yeah. I mean, if you could talk about a spectrum here, I am extremely extroverted. She's a little bit more in the middle. And we've got our. Our introvert over here. We are all very different, which makes us. It makes it work, actually.
[00:14:38] Speaker D: And I don't think we. I think on stage, we're all like that. It translates, like our personalities show up. Yeah. And one of the things, at some of our favorite venues where we play regularly with people that we've really grown to appreciate and love, they'll say, like, oh, it's so cool. We can see that each of you are each individuals. You're very different. And yet somehow, when we're all together, it works.
[00:15:00] Speaker A: Yeah. And you're authentic. So when you guys. You're describing to me that obviously you're an all female band, but you were mentioning that sort of the flavor of your music is very female. So can you describe to us what that means? And then also, like, give us some examples other than Lisa Loeb's song of the kind of what. What that means to you, this feminist music.
[00:15:34] Speaker C: Yes. So we actually. I think we have a very unique voice. We do mostly covers at this point, but we are taking covers, mostly eighties, nineties, some current pop hits, but we turn them into more acoustic. So not necessarily the same tempo, definitely not the same dynamics. We put three part harmony on everything. Luisa plays lovely lyrical cello. So we have this very unique sound.
[00:15:59] Speaker B: To our band, and we can rock out, too. And when we say acoustic, it doesn't just necessarily mean quiet.
[00:16:04] Speaker C: No, it's intriguing. You know, it's that. I think I know this song. It sounds familiar, but they can't quite place it, because it's not how the original artists did it.
[00:16:14] Speaker B: Well. And I think what else is really cool is that we have this one over here waking up at 05:00 a.m. figuring out how we can put music together, songs together, to make them kind of mashups.
[00:16:25] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:16:26] Speaker B: And it really is cool. She'll text us at 05:00 a.m. saying, I've got the idea, we're gonna do these together, and. Okay, cool. And people will sit there and listen, go, oh, whoa, oh, that's cool. And connecting, you know, Lizzo to Adele. And then we've got, what else do we have?
[00:16:43] Speaker D: Weekend.
We have weekend. And the cure that are mixed up together.
[00:16:49] Speaker B: I love this Harry stale. Just lots of different music from different eras, different genres, putting them together, putting our spin on it. You know, we have cello, we have bass, we have guitar, three part harmonies. We have melodica, which I'm learning, and I want to start learning how to play percussion a little bit better. You know, we're all. I'm playing things that are new for me. I'm playing instruments that are new. These ladies are also going outside of their comfort zone and learning new instruments in a way, singing in a way that we never have before. I never in my life. This is actually something.
I've never been able to play the cello and sing ever. I've never been able to do it. And the moment I started playing with them, I could, and that was actually. I'm actually gonna cry. That was actually a really big moment for me because I was getting out of the classical side of me and getting into this whole new world of music. And it was really cool. I had these ladies to thank for it.
[00:17:42] Speaker A: So you're hitting on something that I think is really touching. And a lot of people listening, I think, can learn from this, that when we want to change something in our life or introduce something into our life, we think about it in a very singular way. What am I going to do? And what you guys are kind of bringing to the table is where friendship plays a part in this. And, you know, you are stronger together than you are individually. And I think that's. That's really interesting.
[00:18:15] Speaker D: I think one of the things that I have found so satisfying about being in a band with these two is that you get to see these same women regularly, and it's not even just like you're showing up for wine night or for book club, but you're actually coming together to build something, to sort of collaborate, do something that's bigger than yourself to work through all the kinks. And we've really come a long way in the year or so that we've been playing regularly together. We're now doing gigs, like, most weekends. We have two this weekend. I'd say we have four to five gigs a month that we're doing.
[00:18:49] Speaker B: We're gonna have to start saying no to things which we never thought we would. I never thought we would do that.
[00:18:53] Speaker D: Yeah. So I think, yeah. It's the sort of regular interaction that leads to these strong bonds, but also that we're working together to build something.
[00:19:05] Speaker A: What would you guys say to somebody who was like, you guys in the early stages of this? They knew they were talented. They knew they kind of had a gift. They wanted to put themselves out there, had no idea where to start. What would you guys say to this person?
[00:19:26] Speaker D: I would say that I think a lot of it is about momentum. So even if you don't have the answer, you know, for me, it was like, while starting guitar lessons and making commitment to myself, that I was going to do that on a regular basis and then just talking to other people about it and seeing where you could get some reception for your ideas. So I think a lot of it is about momentum, which you can generate yourself.
[00:19:47] Speaker B: Yeah. And then just going outside of your comfort zone, you know, I mean, I've never done that. Yeah. I never done content for Instagram or all those things. I'm not really a social media person, but I'm constantly now thinking about, okay, what am I going to create for our social media posts? How are you going to move forward? She's always thinking about, okay, where's the next place that we're going to contact? We're always thinking about, like, what is our music set gonna look like? What's the next sound gonna be like? Okay, we're gonna be at that place. Who are we playing to? You know, these are things that I just never really thought about before, but as long as you're just kind of checking up, okay, we're doing that now. Okay, now we're doing that. Okay, now we're doing that. Okay, now we're doing that. And we just had a meeting yesterday when we were preparing for this interview about, okay, what is our next steps after this? We have two big things this weekend. Now I want to get a website going. I want to get. We need to be recording our song so that we can get it up. Like, just step by step. Breaking it down like, that has really helped us.
[00:20:47] Speaker C: Yeah, I think it's just about saying yes. Just say yes. Just try. The worst that's going to happen is you won't like it. But I love that.
[00:20:56] Speaker A: Say yes.
Love that. Can't say that enough. The other thing, I love your bit about momentum because I think it's like, well, you guys are runners. You appreciate this. You train and you train and you train and you do a marathon and you run this marathon. You give yourself a pat on the back and you realize, well, it's over. What's the next thing? What's the next thing? It's one thing gets you excited about next steps. It's kind of contagious, and it keeps this, as you say, the momentum going. So it's, as opposed to it just being one isolated thing that you did and said, oh, well, that was good. That made me. That was exciting for a bit, but now I'm right back to where I.
[00:21:40] Speaker C: Started, and there's always something uniquely exciting to look forward to. We hear a song on the radio and we think, yes, that's the perfect song. Or, you know, we get picked up to play at a different venue, and that's exciting for us. Or somebody gives us positive feedback or.
[00:21:55] Speaker B: A suggestion, we get more followers on Instagram, which is naturally happening. Now, we're not asking people, we make stickers.
[00:22:01] Speaker A: It's huge.
[00:22:02] Speaker B: Yeah, we made stickers. We're starting to make swag. We finally made a logo. It took us a while to get to a logo, you know, I mean, it's cool.
[00:22:09] Speaker A: Bumper stickers, tote bags, t shirts.
[00:22:13] Speaker B: Or we get to be on a podcast and we get to talk about it. I mean, it's so cool, fulfilling, you know? And my partner, just this morning, he woke. We were waking up, and he said, you know, I just want to tell you how proud I am of you and of the ladies, of the ladies of what we're doing and how far we've come. And we really. I think we're starting to get recognized. I had somebody because I'm like, aren't you a cellist in that band? I was like, what?
I am a cellist in a band.
[00:22:43] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:22:43] Speaker B: And that was so you guys better.
[00:22:45] Speaker A: Start keeping sharpies in your back pocket.
[00:22:47] Speaker B: For autographs, signing people's heads and other.
[00:22:51] Speaker A: And wearing dark glasses and just walking around. No, no photos. No photos, please.
[00:22:57] Speaker D: The highest praise was when my 16 year old son said something along the lines like, yeah, if I was just out and I heard you guys, I'd be like, yeah, they don't suck.
[00:23:06] Speaker A: Oh, you don't suck.
[00:23:08] Speaker B: Thanks, buddy. My kids, I have four kids. She has two. And my boys are, you know, they'll come to mind. They'll be like, it's pretty good, mom. It's pretty good.
[00:23:17] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:23:17] Speaker B: Sound pretty good.
Thanks, guys.
[00:23:21] Speaker A: So my last question for you guys, and I ask all our guests this, and I know it should be sort of.
Kind of should speak for itself, but in what ways has this coming together? Forming a band that is obviously very close to being majorly famous.
What about this has made you guys, personally, really happy? And this can mean, you know, how has it impacted your personal relationships, your ability to put yourself out there and meet new people, learning.
What about it, would you say, more than anything, has really made you happy?
[00:24:07] Speaker B: It's the friendship, and we're all very different, and we have our quirks. And, you know, being in a band, you're gonna have challenging moments with each other, but, like, they are really some of my best friends. And that is really cool.
[00:24:21] Speaker D: Yes, that, and. And there's just something so satisfying about, like, the equipment was hard at first. Like, initially, I didn't even. I was like.
[00:24:32] Speaker B: And expensive.
[00:24:33] Speaker D: And expensive. I was looking at Liz being like, what is she doing? I guess I have to set up my microphone now.
[00:24:37] Speaker B: I had no idea.
[00:24:38] Speaker D: But now when we arrive at a venue, like, we haul all of our stuff in, we set it up. We're very efficient.
We get it going, and there's just something. It kind of feels like you're setting up a campsite almost.
[00:24:49] Speaker B: Yeah, actually. How I think I'm taking it down. We become so good at it, and.
[00:24:52] Speaker D: Then you get up there and you get to show off the fact that, you know, you've practiced. When we nail it, it feels so great. When we look at each other and.
[00:25:01] Speaker B: Are like, oh, our harmonies are just. Just there's, like, a little je ne sais quoi in that.
[00:25:06] Speaker D: It's all that preparation and hard work, I think, that gets to come together on a regular basis, which is so satisfying.
[00:25:12] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:25:14] Speaker C: And I think you touched upon this earlier, but, I mean, it is almost like being a different person when you're on stage. So, like, for me, as an instrumentalist my whole life, part of why I loved it so much is because I could kind of hide in the back of the orchestra. I was a double bass player. I was a child, literally, the back of the orchestra.
But now I'm up in the spotlight.
[00:25:34] Speaker B: And she's in the center. She's in the center of us.
[00:25:37] Speaker D: Sometimes she wears a cowboy hat.
[00:25:38] Speaker B: Yeah, she looks cool. Yeah. She didn't want to be in the center. But she has to be, because she takes lead on a lot of the stuff.
[00:25:46] Speaker C: Yeah. And because I had the support of these two, you know, they encouraged me to move to the center and take a little bit, you know, more presence in the band. And that is not something I would have done on my own.
[00:26:00] Speaker A: This is. This is amazing. Well, you know what this reminds me of? I'm sure you're familiar with Beyonce. She has spoken at length about when she's just in her normal life. She's actually a pretty quiet person, but she transitions into this Sasha fierce person who is. Who we know is Beyonce, but she swears up and down that that's actually not her. It's just like she becomes this. Her alter ego. She literally walks in to this star kind of personality.
[00:26:36] Speaker B: I think that happens for us. You know, we're working on the stage banter. You know, there's the in between the songs, and we're all, you know, it's. We're learning how to do it right. We. It is a different Persona that you. A person that you become. And it's fun. It is. It's. There is some star power in that, I have to say.
[00:26:52] Speaker A: And I gotta say, you know, here I am talking to you three women, and what's so refreshing is, sorry to say this, but so used to talking to, like, when you hear men talk about themselves, like, artists or whatever, unabashedly. Oh, yeah. We're killing it. We're killing it. We've got this going on. We've got women, by and large. It's just the way we've been raised. Right? It's. You're talking a little too much about yourself. You know, keep it. You know, relax and be a little bit more modest. Screw that. Take ownership of it. Like, hello, we're killing it. If the fact that anybody recognizes you guys on the street, you got two gigs a weekend. You've got now swag that you've got putting together. I mean, like, this is the big deal and owning it. Like, I love that. You should. It's awesome.
[00:27:46] Speaker B: Thank you. Well, I will say I'm. I'm pretty. I'm pretty goddamn proud of us, to be honest. Like, it's. It's not been easy, but I think we're getting better and better and better and better.
[00:27:58] Speaker C: Well, and we have video evidence.
[00:28:00] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[00:28:01] Speaker C: First few gigs. And it is. It's very true that we actually have come a long way.
[00:28:05] Speaker B: We have come a long way. And it's only been a year and a half, and I just want to say, I want to give a shout out to these, these fabulous people up in orchids. And they, from their, from the lark.
[00:28:17] Speaker C: And the lark and Sparrow.
[00:28:18] Speaker B: Thank you. Like Michaela and John, the Larkin Sparrow and orchid, they were the ones that gave us our first chance for a real gig. They reached out to us and we did it. And we're actually playing there tomorrow, Friday the 13th.
And it's because of them, they gave us the courage to move forward and be this bandaid. And we're so grateful.
[00:28:41] Speaker C: More women encouraging female artists.
[00:28:44] Speaker A: So, well, here, here's your opportunity. Plug away for people who are listening or watching this who might not even be in California. So where can they, do you have an instagram? Do you have a website?
Let us hear about it.
[00:29:00] Speaker B: So we are at, this is what I say, every show. We are banned on Instagram.
We would love to get more followers. We are also, if anyone wants to get in touch with us, to book us or to talk more about, more about this with us, we are@stringsandarrowsbandmail.com dot we are working on. We actually do have a YouTube page, but don't go there yet because we're working on our songs. My partner is going to record us and get us up there in a much better way. And we will have a website. Right. That's going to be, I think that's next week for, it'll probably be something like strings and arrows, bandaid. So we do have stickers. I want to make shirts. If anyone's interested. I would be more than happy to please get in touch with us and we'll work on that.
[00:29:47] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:29:48] Speaker D: And if you're local to Santa Barbara, we're playing at Mosaic on State street, where draftsman and the other breweries are on September 20. I think at 05:00 we're playing at.
[00:29:59] Speaker B: The Los Padres Forest watch fundraiser on Sunday. So two really cool things there.
[00:30:04] Speaker D: And another big one is going to be validation. Ale on Friday, October 11 at 07:00 p.m. we'll be there as well.
[00:30:11] Speaker B: Yeah, we have a lot of gigs coming up, which you can find.
[00:30:14] Speaker A: You have your schedule there on Instagram?
[00:30:16] Speaker D: Yeah, you can. We always post, while Louise always makes us nice posters of our to advertise the dates. So you'll be able to find us there.
[00:30:23] Speaker B: Yes, and I'll get a schedule up there ASAP.
[00:30:26] Speaker A: You guys are amazing. Honestly.
I'm so glad you, you agreed to come on today. And I know people listening are. Well, first of all, they're going to love you. But I think they're also going to really love your music and your story.
You know, you guys are definitely three very inspiring people. And thank you so much for the three of you for coming on today. I really appreciate it.
[00:30:52] Speaker B: Well, thank you so much for having us. And you know, those of you going through your midlife, you can do this kind of stuff. You can get out there and do it. It's awesome and it is so worth it.
[00:31:03] Speaker D: Yeah. Thanks for having us.
[00:31:04] Speaker C: Thank you.
[00:31:05] Speaker A: You're lying.
Okay, well, thank you guys again. And I can't say enough about these girls. And on that note, please, please, please subscribe to our channel, the Midlife Happiness project. So glad you guys tuned in today and please subscribe. And we just want to keep bringing this great programming your way. Thanks again and again and again. It's Sarah for the Midlife Happiness project.
