A Brief Interview with Nate Sipe from Pert Near Sandstone
Cizzy: How are you trying to connect with the audience through your music and your live performances?
Nate Sipe: For us, in a selfish way, it is all about having fun. We like to get on stage and just jam. Acoustic instruments could be played on their own and you could practice some tunes in a living room, but when you get friends together and instruments it makes a great sound and endless fun. That is what it is really all about for us; enjoying people and enjoying what we are doing. And if it ceases to be fun for us, we will try to do something different.
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“Wild Bill Jones” performed by: Pert Near Sandstone
Although we make our own original songs, we are trying to preserve traditional music. We have been digging up a lot of really cool old traditional songs from the 20’s and 30’s that nobody else has really heard of and have been trying to educate people about the old American recording industry. It has sort of been buried and forgotten about. We are not aspiring to be a “commercially by the plan” band; we only want to play awesome music, have people come out to see us, travel, and meet people around the country.
Cizzy: Where do you see your band being at in 5 years?
NS: We definitely plan to keep traveling and making albums. There are a couple directions that it could go in the future. We could stay with the bar circuit and with the college scene- it has been sustaining for us so far. But at some point it may “graduate.” Then the ideal in the future would be to go into the theatre circuit and continue with festivals. However, right now, we are going to keep on doing what we are doing and make some albums.
Cizzy: Looking back as far as you can, do you remember a vivid point in your life where you concluded- ‘I am a musician. And I want to have a recording and performing career.’
NS: There was never a point in time where I thought I was going to be a professional musician. This career for our band happened very organically. None of us intended anything but only to play in coffee shops. But we like beer more than coffee so we started playing at bars. Then we started playing a show in Duluth. And now we are playing all around the country a couple times in the year.
Pert Near Sandstone will be jamming Thursday, January 7th at the Snow Ball Winter Festival (officially held January 8, 9 & 10th). The festival is in the depths of our Minnesota winter with a 3-day ski party at Lutsen Ski Mountains with 3 nights of music and 8 bands. For more information about the festival, go to the Snow Ball Festival Website at http://www.lutsen.com/snowball/.
Links
Pert Near Sandstone – Website / Myspace
posted January 4th, 2010 at 10:50 pm MN Rock
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