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I still don't understand where you got all those moves from.

Like divine Providence.

I think it's I think it is.

Is but a vessel.

I'm but a vessel for the spirit to do.

I think it's a mixture of divine providence and in being 100% okay with looking like a complete idiot.

Welcome to sounds on 29th.

I am Stefan.

How many times have you heard Greeley Funk?

Sweaty northern Colorado soul.

Y'all.

Some of y'all are ready.

Make some noise for the burros.

You A lot of bands, either toxically or healthily, will be like.

Say that they're family, right?

Yeah.

So, but you all really seem like you are.

So if you were to compare your band to a famous family from fiction, what would it be?

Whoa.

A famous family from fiction?

Absolutely.

One.

Yeah yeah.

Yeah yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

You know, the Brady Bunch is like a nice blended family.

I would say Bob's Burgers.

Oh, yeah.

Just like everyone's kind of wild and weird in their own ways, but it all kind of it.

Yeah, that's also the glue.

The weirdness is also the glue.

I'm going to throw up a flag and say, I've worked.

All of us have worked in a lot of aspects of the arts and been in a lot of bands and projects, and I will plant my flag and say, I think we're pretty darn functional.

Yeah, it's pretty healthy vibes.

We like to be around each other.

We support each other musically, to each other, outside of the band for sure.

Yeah, I mean, I think for a lot of us, honestly, it's like the thing that ties us to the place that we live.

It's like the, like, the most important community in my life, really, for me.

So.

Yeah.

What is one of the ways that you feel like you've really showed up for one another?

Like what?

Can you give us an example?

Because I don't think we get to hear a lot about that with band dynamics.

I have so many examples.

I mean, like, I'm talking like band members coming over and building furniture for for my kids and, like, bringing each other food when we know we've been having, like, a rough week.

Yeah.

When both my kids were born, these two were the first people to, like, get it all assembled and get people giving us food, making sure we could sleep and, it's like true communal family like vibes all the way through.

I mean, you guys can probably think of way more than me.

Oh, yeah.

I mean, it's just like.

Like I literally talked to someone at an event, like, honestly, like, most of the band, like, every day, you know?

But.

And it's not just about, like, things that we're working on, like, like sending each other messages, like when I have, like, good news to share.

It's this group of people that's the first to hear about.

I have bad news to share.

It's this group of people.

It's like the first to hear about it typically.

So yeah, I really think it was like that.

One of these things does not make sense in this group of words.

Is like an act test.

All right.

Okay.

Funk, soul.

Greely.

That's what you think.

What's that to be about?

Yeah.

So I mean, well, okay, so that's always been like I mean, it's a truth about the band and like I think it's like kind of been a bit that we've like reclaimed a little bit.

So we got her start as a Greeley band.

And you know, for people from Colorado who might have context about Greeley, it has a certain reputation, which I think has some merit to it, and some of it's like not earned.

This being like kind of a cow town agricultural.

But we all met at like basically at you and your through the, the music community, which is a great school of music and then through circumstances, a lot of them relate to the band.

Most of us have stayed in Greeley and like really rooted down in that community, like, you know, like have homes there, have jobs there, like have a really strong community.

And so I think like we've just kind of dug into that.

It's it's a place where, like we have really been fortunate to like have the space to make things happen and try things, which I think is so rare, like the industry, so tough, right, and so competitive that it can feel like, man, you only get like one shot to try something.

And we've been so fortunate to have like, you know, kind of like shot after shot in a way to just keep iterating, experimenting.

So really it's cool.

Yeah.

It's been a cool home base for us, honestly.

And I think, I don't know, for myself like individually, probably because I'm like a woman who plays the drums.

I love living in that space of like, oh, I'm not like, I'm not supposed to be good at this, but I am, you know, and I think that sometimes how we feel about, like, the hometown, you know, is like, oh, yeah, we're not supposed to be from there.

But we are.

It's surprising.

Do you ever get that feedback after shows us like, where are you from?

Oh, 100% since since day one, everywhere we played like we play and they'd be like and we, we would shout, you know, sweaty Greeley soul.

They'd be like, so what?

You said Greeley yell from Greeley, especially people in Colorado.

We were in Alaska this summer and this lady came up to me, actually, she's like, when you said you're from Greeley, was that a joke?

And we were like, no.

And she was like, what?

You're like, okay, this is made its way up north.

What are you all trying to build with your show?

Oh, I mean, since the beginning, the goal of anytime anybody comes in contact with their music is that they walk away feeling better than what they did when they came in.

And I think out of that has also grown this idea of that people get to have but for a moment attach themselves to something bigger.

That's what's so beautiful about live music, is you get to come to a space where all of a sudden you're a part of something bigger and better than what you are in your everyday life.

And even if it's just for a moment, you feel like you're a part of something that is just huge.

And so for us, we really want people to come to a space where they feel accepted exactly for who they are, and they get to be a part of something.

If we can take that community like family vibe that we have within our own band and spread that to if we're playing to ten people or 10,000 people and bring them all together for a moment.

My goal every show is if I can get everyone in the room together for one moment, at least, we're we're all doing the same thing.

There's something so beautiful and something just like, kind of like beyond what this world is in that moment and that then they walk away feeling like, okay, you know, life may not be what I want it, but it's good and it's only going to get better.

Thank you so much for your time.

Thank you.

We really appreciate having you all here.

Yeah, I can't yeah I can go home okay.

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