Cat Bone and Deyavah of Cat Bone and The Charm City sinners

When the STARs align...

How do you open your first night at The STAR Centre in Havre De Grace, MD? with a few fun suprises and of course, two very talented Maryland musicians, Cat Bone and Deyavah of the 8 piece powerhouse, Cat Bone and The Charm City Sinners. If you throw Bayou style brass, some New Orleans style R&B and a hand full of swing and funk into a big 'ol bucket and swirl it around, you have this power octet!

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SPEAKER_01 0:28

Hey, hey. Appreciate you guys coming out. Thank you, man. Thanks for having us. Uh, we've been working on this one for uh for a while. For a long while. Uh, before we get into the artistic side and the interviews and all of the fun stuff, um, I want to go ahead and give a couple shout outs to our awesome sponsors. Uh let's see, let's kick it off. Uh, Star Center. Big shout out to the Star Center for uh allowing us to come here and set up this beautiful podcast and uh bring local music and art to uh Haverty Grace. Um we are blessed. Um they got a lot of really, really awesome things going on right now that you guys definitely need to check out. Uh let's see. July the 25th is Boathouse Row. It's the ultimate yacht rock experience. Uh, I think that's kind of a thing that we all kind of secretly like in the closet, but you know what? We all like it one way or the other. We grew up on it. Uh August the 22nd, David Clark's all about Joel. It's a Billy Joel tribute. If you guys are down with Billy, that's definitely one you want to check out. September the 12th, who's bad? The ultimate Michael Jackson Experience. You come out here and get your hee hee on. Um, this could be a golden. Um, I know he's played here, they've played here in the past and packed the place, put on an incredible show. October the 3rd, several species, the Pink Floyd Experience. I know there's a lot of uh Pink Floyd lovers out there in the audience, so that's definitely one you don't want to miss. October the 10th, Classic Stones Live for all of you Mick Jaggers out there uh wanting to get your uh stones groove on. That's definitely I see you have a yeah, I see your growing stone chart out there. All right. Uh let's see. And then November 7th, celebrating Celine. I believe that is Celine Dion, so you can come out here and uh have her belt out some of that beautiful music to you right around the holidays. Uh thank you to Weatherly Productions for being the producer of this show. Their continued professionalism and endless knowledge is what makes the podcast sound so good. For mixing, mastering, engineering, production, as well as private instruction. Uh, Weatherly is your go-to production company. You can find out more at allthingsweatherly.com. And then uh big shot to thank you. Uh, we are currently enjoying a nice hot cup of rise up coffee from Rise Up Coffee Roasters. Um their coffee is what keeps us buzzing along. It's happiness in a cup. They are an independent small batch roaster headquartered in Eastern Maryland with 20 years under their belts. They have consistently been voted Maryland's number one coffee company out there. And you guys will be the first. Um they are available in grocery stores and restaurants, but if you go online and you want to order some incredible coffee from them, if you use the code SASH 10, S-E-S-H-10 at your checkout, you will get 10% off your total bill. No restrictions and minimums cannot be combined with any other offers. All right. That's that. You guys ready? Yeah, I'm gonna be able to do that. You excited? I'm excited. Very, very cool. All right. Uh let's see. Once again, this is a live recorded show. Appreciate your phones being off. Thank you so much. Uh let's see. Um Catbone. What's up, man? You and I met uh a few years back.

SPEAKER_04 3:52

Um I think it was about four years ago.

SPEAKER_01 3:54

Four years ago.

SPEAKER_04 3:55

Yeah, me and Meisy uh did a couple gigs at Double Groove as Freak the Mighty, do a little duo that we had there for a little while. I think that's where I first met you and then really got to know you when uh Beer Vinyl Vidal.

SPEAKER_01 4:08

The Beer Vinyl Vidal's art music festival. Yeah. Um that was the that was actually my very first experience, full band experience with uh Cat Bone and the Charm City Centers, which is an incredible name, by the way. Thank you. I mean, I it basically explains everything about the band. So this is eight eight members, right? Is that correct?

SPEAKER_04 4:26

Yes, sir, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 4:26

And who are all eight of the members?

SPEAKER_04 4:28

So it is uh me, Cat Bone, we got Dave O that's at the table here. Uh we have Chris Fader on drums, we have John Meise on the trumpet, uh Joe Wachkowski on the banjo.

SPEAKER_01 4:40

Banjo Joe?

SPEAKER_04 4:41

Uh yeah. We got uh uh Segine on keyboard, and we got Chase Lipko on saxophone, and you also Greg Daffron on bass guitar.

SPEAKER_01 4:50

You guys got the powerhouse. Man, how'd you guys all meet? I mean, go to school together, or did you guys just I mean, open mics? I mean, how did how do you get eight people together? That's what I want to know.

SPEAKER_04 4:59

It was open mics.

SPEAKER_06 5:00

Yeah, we all we all met at open mics. Um, the tower, I think, was where we all kind of met for the first time. In Bel Air Mount. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 5:10

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 5:10

Well, when you get to a point where you start hitting the same event every week and the other people stop showing up and we're just there to play music, sure. It got to a point where we're like, why don't we just take ourselves out of here and do music and not have to waste gas. Well, not waste gas, but like I get it. Better gas somewhere else.

SPEAKER_01 5:26

I mean, you guys had your your dreams, and I mean, I you have always dreamt about being, you know, out there on that stage and doing your thing. And I know you have too. You're probably one of the most talented people that I have met in open mic over the last few years. Your voice is incredible.

SPEAKER_05 5:40

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_01 5:41

Your vocal range is incredible. Um, which is why you guys are here tonight. I've been yeah, we've been excited about this one. I know we um we cut a coup we met a couple of walls uh over the last month or two trying to get you guys in. And then I told you we had something big coming, just to hold out. And when I make the announcement, that's when you guys will be here. So uh yeah, the Star Center was our big announcement, so I'm super happy. So I was trying to I always try to do a little research online or you know, ask around town about each uh artist, musician, or band may it be, um, that comes on the show and try to get a background on them and idea of what the music is, who they are, you know. I I hate I hate pigeonholing bands in a genre, you know, because it's stupid. But um a mix of bayou style, brass, New Orleans, RB, swing, and funk. Is that correct? Yeah, that sounds about right. I mean is that sound about right? Yeah, where does that come from? I mean, because I mean you guys are a lot younger than myself, but you guys are young for which is really cool. I mean, you guys are a lot younger for them, you know, to bring something like that to the stage, which is incredible. But that's what also makes it special, too.

SPEAKER_04 6:57

Well, I mean, we all had a meet in the middle because you have eight people and we all came with from different upbringings, and right uh, but we I I think the basis of it is that it seemed like blues had that, like was the the cousin of everything we were already into. Um, even like our drummer and uh trumpet player, they're like, you know, bigger into metal than probably I I I mean I was big into metal when I was younger, but um, they had more of a connection with that. But then if you really dissect everything um and look at the foundation of the the music that we were already obsessed with, there was a common ancestor in it. So we were just like, oh, let's dig deep into that. And then I'm already a big vinyl collector, and um, they all were familiar with the stuff that I like anyway, not musically, but just like listening to. Sure. So I mean, was it hard? I mean, to really not at all.

SPEAKER_01 7:47

I mean, you you fell right in, so I mean that's perfect. Yeah, that is awesome. So there's so many greats that fall into that style. I'm not gonna say John, that style of music. You got Tennessee Arnie Ford, Cab Calloway. Yeah, you got Brian Setzer. Yeah, I mean, come on, everybody knows Brian Setzer, uh Trumbone Shorty. Yep. And then if you want to go all the way back to the old days of New Orange, you had the dirty dozen brass band, just to name a few. What have who has been your biggest influence in that style of music?

SPEAKER_04 8:18

I could probably say Screaming Jay Hawkins, I think, really brought the character, the theatrical part of what I wanted to do. Okay. Um, later in like when I was a teenager, because it all I mean, I grew up in a household of Zeppelin, you know, Van Halen, Whitesnake, and stuff. Sure. The most theatrical that I really had to go by was like Queen and Kiss, maybe. Like when it comes to putting on a show show.

SPEAKER_05 8:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 8:43

And then I wanted to know who their influences were. Um, so it I mean, it's really general. I mean, I go my the taste goes from like piano players. She'll send me stuff that's all instrumental that doesn't have any vocals in it that's like a rag or like something bluegrassy. Sure. Um, I think I mean, really, anything with instruments that don't have to be plugged in. Nice. It can make that stuff with it.

SPEAKER_01 9:08

I mean, a lot of people don't realize that, you know, just just standing there singing doesn't cut it. You have to actually you have to entertain, you have to put on a show. It takes a lot of things. And I've seen you guys perform and you guys put on a show. I mean, it's not just standing there playing, it's dancing, it's grooving, you guys are the connecting, the juices are there, man. It's it's it's awesome. It's so much fun to watch.

SPEAKER_04 9:27

It's not choreographed either. I think we just it that's where we like to touch basis on being a jam band because when when the magic happens and we go off script, I mean, it feels great, you know, depending on what's going on.

SPEAKER_06 9:41

Um and I I couldn't think of any like artists that I drew inspiration from because I didn't really listen to the type of music that Ryan did or some of the other guys did growing up. Um but it was kind of like Ryan said, like the blues is is so integral and just all of the the genres and styles that we're listening to. It was very easy for me to kind of like hop on. Sure. And you know, Ryan would send me stuff to be like, yeah, like I really like this, or you know, we'll we'll send each other song ideas and we're finishing for each other. And so it's it's just really easy to fall in love with.

SPEAKER_01 10:16

Well, what were you playing prior to getting involved in all of this? I mean, I know you've been playing a long time. So what's your normal groove?

SPEAKER_06 10:23

So I've I've been a musician my entire life, um, you know, starting as early as church choir and and high school choir. Um, most of my uh musical upbringing was in the church. Oh and so my sister, my dad, and I, we were on the worship team at our church. Sure. And so that's where I really started like playing in front of people. Um I, you know, like I was mentioned, I was in the high school choir, so I I was doing more like classical singing when I was in high school. And it wasn't until I met these guys, and and my fiance, Evan, brought me out to the tower for the first time that I really started performing in a non-church, non-school setting. Um, I've always wanted to be a you know, a rock star when I was little, but it's that's not necessarily a realistic dream nowadays. Um but yeah, I I didn't really have the the garage band, the open mic. Like that's not really how I I grew up. I kind of just jumped into it and but you had the big church, right?

SPEAKER_01 11:28

Yeah, which you know, acoustic is.

SPEAKER_06 11:31

We go to a big church, yeah. It's awesome.

SPEAKER_04 11:32

So yeah, well, you also can't forget what characters are in the group. Yeah, like in general, like just the fact that that we have the people that are the natural people that they are made it so fun, like undeniably like not a pain in the ass. And people are like, how do you do it with like eight people? Sure. Well, it's just because like for first we're close friends. Yeah, that is before the music, you know. Like I if I didn't want to spend time with these people, I wouldn't. Sure. Um, I can do music by myself in my room for weeks on end and lose my mind if I want. Sure. But I don't want to do that.

SPEAKER_01 12:06

Yeah, I um no, I've I know every single one, every all everybody in the band, obviously. Um I've I've worked with a lot of you guys and played and you know whatnot. But um if somebody was to say, and I mean this with all the love and world, but if somebody was to say, how would you describe the band? I remember the cartoon Rugrats. That's what it reminds me of. Everybody's just got their everybody's feral and doing their thing, but when they you know harmoniously come together, it's it's uh it's super fun. Um Hey Arnold. Hey, oh hey Arnold, there you go. There you go. Oh, speaking of which, I actually had this down. Congratulations on your engagement.

SPEAKER_06 12:41

Thank you very much. Fiance over here. Very, very cool.

SPEAKER_01 12:46

This gentleman right here recording. Uh let's see. Uh let's see. You guys have been popping up everywhere. You recently won the Maryland Center for the Arts Band Competition. How'd that come about?

SPEAKER_04 12:59

We were just the We didn't mean to.

unknown 13:01

You didn't mean to.

SPEAKER_04 13:03

It was by accident. We were, I mean, like, it's been kind of dry on gigs, so I was like, oh, this could this seems fun. And I said, let's all input our names in it. And I guess somebody that was working it was like, oh, I gotta get get these guys in here. But we had no idea who was gonna be there, we had no idea what we're up against, but like I'm pretty sure none of us looked at it like a competition, like at all. Right, like I we didn't like rehearse in a certain style way or like really beat ourselves up. We just kind of do it like we usually do and just have fun. It was hard to do.

SPEAKER_01 13:34

It wasn't like blitz versus the crypts or anything on the lawn. It was nobody duking it out on the lawn over who's gonna be.

SPEAKER_04 13:42

I mean, I I'm glad that I got to get some of these names of the guys that were playing before us.

SPEAKER_01 13:47

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 13:48

I was like, I want to see like next time you come into town. I would love to.

SPEAKER_06 13:55

Like Ryan said, we were just there to goof off on stage and have a good time.

SPEAKER_04 13:59

I forgot it was a competition. And by like halfway through.

SPEAKER_01 14:03

Yeah, I agree. I I'm not really into the whole competition. Personally, I think we all should be supporting each other and enabling each other to do better and in the progress and the arts and music community. Um, but it opened the door for you guys, which is super cool. It's a badass weekend. I'm so proud of you guys, man. I've been watching you guys flower and progress for the last four years or three years, and um, it's just it just makes me so happy, man.

SPEAKER_04 14:27

I appreciate it.

SPEAKER_01 14:28

It really is.

SPEAKER_04 14:29

I mean, if it weren't for the the local community that we do it around, either. I mean, I what do I say at every show? I say the best form of promo is like word of mouth. I like I'm not too good at the social media thing. You know, we've tried to do corny clips and stuff, and like it only I mean, we're gonna try to do it again, but I've noticed the only reason why we're here is because people yap and people talk among themselves, especially the older folks. I mean, you know, they're not like, hey, look at this. They're more like, oh, this is what I was doing last week and this band was there.

SPEAKER_01 15:03

Well, it's it's the groove that you guys have, it's the music that you guys are touching upon right now. It's it's it's all like I said, you there's nobody out there that's doing that right now. I mean, unless you want to go like the De Bryan Setzers, you know, the straight cats and them guys like that. But and the trombone shorties, of course. Um, but it there's nobody that I can think of that's anywhere in the state of Maryland that's putting that music out right now in such a large group of people and and doing it, and they're doing it properly and they're doing it right.

SPEAKER_04 15:35

Well, it it's one of those I it seems like that we all have something in common. I I think the thing that I have in common with those guys that kind of like the the biggest comparison that I'm not even big on, but I get the comparison of like Tom Waits a lot. Okay, because of theatric, just the theatric part. And I think the only thing I could compare to is that it seems like that I have an upbringing of somebody that doesn't look like look at something like nostalgia, it's more of like a language that you have with your peers. Like, um, like the what we do on stage, that's just the way I think. Like it has everything to do with my daily life where that's what I want to do when I get home, or like I listen to old stuff, but I I sometimes I dissect it so much I don't enjoy it. Like I'll listen too hard and repeat like a piano part and be like, oh, what's that guy doing? And you can't find any footage online of it. Are you big on music theory? Uh I'm big on it, but I don't know crap about it.

SPEAKER_06 16:32

I'm kind of in the same boat. I know a little bit, I know enough. I try to learn more as I as I write more. Um but yeah, I'm kind of in the same boat.

SPEAKER_01 16:44

You guys writing a lot right now? A lot of originals for the band, for the full band?

SPEAKER_04 16:48

Over time we have surges.

SPEAKER_01 16:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 16:51

We have probably close to twelve. We put a list together and we're like, how many originals are we like giving to the band and gonna share with them? And like what we're and it came out to be like 13.

SPEAKER_06 17:04

It's an album's worth for sure. Yeah, yeah. Well, it's good. Because we're you know, we're writing for ourselves individually and also the band. And so we kind of between the two of us tend to go through you know phases where one of us is writing a lot and the other one's writing. I think I've I've texted you sometimes just being like, Hey, give me the brain cell back. Like, it's my turn to write.

SPEAKER_04 17:24

And then same with I mean, same with you. She'll have these surges of like sending me something at like one in the morning and being like, Look what I wrote, and I'm like, dude, I haven't written anything in weeks. Like it's uh, you know, you get a little jealous over that energy that we all trade off of each other. Some people are really into it, and some people are tired from work. It's just the vibe, man. It's good, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 17:43

You know, it really is, it really is. Um, you had mentioned um the Beer Violin Vittles Music Festival at Double Groove Browing that you guys played. And um that's funny. I I can still remember being out in the crowd, and you guys took the stage, and of course, we're all like, all right, there's a whole lot of people up there.

SPEAKER_04 18:00

That's where I met, that's where I met you. Yeah. That's where you met Joe. Yeah, that's where I met Joe. Big shout out to Joe.

SPEAKER_01 18:06

Joe Turner, yes, sir. Making magic happen. That's right. Um, but yeah, I remember standing out in the grass looking up on the stage, and I'm looking around. I'm kind of getting the feedback of the crowd, and I remember everybody saying, Man, there's a lot of people up there. Wonder how the hell they're gonna pull this off. And I believe you had did you have the xylophone with you that day? Yes, yeah, the maroon, okay.

SPEAKER_06 18:27

You're doing the marumba and the congas.

SPEAKER_01 18:29

Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. But um, it was awesome. You guys did the um jungle book song?

SPEAKER_00 18:36

Yeah, yeah. Uh Wanna Be Like You. Wanna Be Like You. That is true.

SPEAKER_06 18:40

I still have the set list from that day. It's framed in my office. I still have it framed, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 18:45

Yeah, it was a lot. That was a good day, man. It was a beautiful, beautiful day.

SPEAKER_06 18:48

That was our first gig as a band. Was it really good? Yeah, so I framed the set list.

SPEAKER_01 18:51

Oh, that is awesome. How long did you guys wait until after that to keep continuing? Just like get into the get into the studio and start building up songs, or did you just say, you know what, screw it, we're heading out and we're hitting the road hard.

SPEAKER_04 19:03

You know what's funny is it goes back to just one, like it seems like it's just what we do when we all hang out. Like, if I want to have practice, it's more so just because I want to check up on everybody. And then it's just it's really turns into jamming and working on music. But like, if I can knock two birds with one stone and like have you know, not neglect time with the people that I care about, but also get some stuff done.

SPEAKER_01 19:27

Nice.

SPEAKER_04 19:27

Um, I don't know. I I really I think it was gradual. I think our first year was we were just hobbying it out, you know, and stretching things out and just kind of wanting to do like openers, like kind of like even like Blues Fest. Sure. It was like right after that, I think. And um I think it got serious once we had the space. Greg opened up his his basement for us to you know link up and and do music. And it's as long as there's elbow room, like once there was elbow room, we were able to be like, okay, we could take it seriously. Right. Before it was just kind of me, her, and Joe all just jamming and then cramming into Joe's tiny house. Yeah, Joe's Tiny House.

SPEAKER_01 20:06

That should be a t-shirt, Joe's tiny house. Yeah, yeah. That's awesome. I have a question for you.

SPEAKER_03 20:12

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 20:13

How is it being the only girl in a group that large? Are they respectful? They treat you right now. They are very respectful.

SPEAKER_06 20:20

I I don't have a very big circle, but they're they're all in it. I, you know, I have seven brothers, big brothers.

SPEAKER_01 20:26

You have seven brothers?

SPEAKER_06 20:27

Well, I do now. Oh, oh, oh, okay.

SPEAKER_01 20:28

I was like, well, mom and dad.

SPEAKER_06 20:31

I have one sister, she's here in the crowd, but um no, I've you know, I've I've I've I've said like once I joined this band's like I've got seven brothers. Like, I know they all have my back, they all respect me, and we all love each other. It's great.

SPEAKER_04 20:43

She is the meanest one out of all of us, though.

SPEAKER_00 20:46

She's meaningful.

SPEAKER_01 20:47

Somebody has to take control at all times, and there's nothing wrong with that, you know, nothing wrong with that at all. Um, you guys just played Harmony Woods Music and Art Festival.

SPEAKER_06 20:58

We did.

SPEAKER_01 20:59

Which I was there. Uh was a bunch of us were actually there. And mom was there. Two days long. A lot of big names, a lot of big hitters on that bill. And you guys opened it all. Yeah. It was incredible. How was that?

SPEAKER_06 21:12

It was amazing to be up. I broke a string, I think, like immediately. It was like the first song. So I played a whole set with a broken string. But it was really cool.

SPEAKER_05 21:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 21:22

You know, seeing the other bands that were up there and seeing how many people were showing up and being like, we're opening a festival. Like, this is like a thing. This is really cool. I had a great time.

SPEAKER_01 21:31

There was at least a thousand people in the lawn at one point while you guys were playing. It was pretty cool. And everybody was up dancing, which was even better. You guys, I mean, you guys people had had people moving. It really did.

SPEAKER_04 21:42

Off the jet.

SPEAKER_01 21:42

What radio station was that? I remember she somebody had come out to um uh Chris Christy Breslin.

SPEAKER_04 21:47

She kissed yeah, that was Christy Breslin. That was uh the news station. The news station, that's what it was. New station.

SPEAKER_06 21:52

W B A L W N A R W M A R Oh Okay.

SPEAKER_01 21:55

Because I know you guys made the news as well. Yeah, which was kind of cool. How was that? Seeing yourself on the news, huh?

SPEAKER_04 22:01

It was uh I treated it like something I was scaring people about when I was.

SPEAKER_01 22:06

At least you weren't holding a sign with a number on it.

SPEAKER_04 22:09

Right, right. That's always a good thing. I I was more, yeah, I would bring it up in conversation. They'll be like, How was your week? And I was like, I made the news, and everybody their first instinct was, What do you do? I was like, How much time did you serve? Yeah, yeah, no. It was great.

SPEAKER_00 22:21

How about you? It was kind of a rock star moment.

SPEAKER_06 22:24

Yeah, yeah. Very, very cool.

SPEAKER_01 22:26

That is awesome. Uh, let's see. Oh, and you guys had a special guest on stage with you that day. One of them uh he's a friend of mine, um, one of my favorite keyboard players out there in this community, and that is Mr. John Paul Meyer. How did you pull that off, man? John Paul Meyer is uh he was a keyboard player with the Kelly Bell Band. Yes, and he is currently full-time with one of my favorites as well, Pretty War. Oh, pretty war with Mark Hopkins and company. But uh, how'd you guys get John up there, man?

SPEAKER_06 22:57

Well, we started seeing him often after she was um he and I were on the Mouthful of Graffiti podcast with uh Brad Cox, yeah, shout out to Brad Cox, Mouthful of Graffiti. Um so that that's how I was first introduced to him, and I was immediately just blown away by he's just insanely talented. Oh, it's incredible, it's crazy.

SPEAKER_04 23:19

Sometimes I don't know how to keep my cool when I see good talent. So right when he you guys were done, I talked to him and I saw I probably looked like an idiot. I was like, jabba, jabba, jabba, jibba. I was like, how do you do this? Like, how do you what's your favorite this, this? Like I uh and then it just turned it. I and then I went to go see him at Falling Branch with Mark Hop uh Mark Hopkins. I was there, and uh yeah, yep, yep, I saw you there. And then he was just friend, he recognized me from there. So him just being a friendly guy is just a very approachable dude. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 23:46

Um so then Yeah, we kind of just ask nicely, and he said yes.

SPEAKER_01 23:52

He's just one of those guys, man. I I love watching him play because his wife and his and his daughter always, always, always are there to support. And the the relationship he has with the two of them when he's playing is it's it's beautiful. You know, he um I mean he could be literally be in the middle of a solo playing, and he'll be like, right back on and then start playing that. I think it's awesome. He's a good dad and a good husband, he's a good person, man.

SPEAKER_04 24:17

That's why I I look up to people like that. I mean, uh in general, just him being keeping his passion and then trying as hard as well. I know it's not easy, but to keep that balance of like work-life balance and like you know, he's great.

SPEAKER_01 24:30

Um so Dave.

SPEAKER_05 24:33

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 24:34

I looked it up.

SPEAKER_05 24:35

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 24:36

In Sanskrit, it means divine or goddess. Did you know that?

SPEAKER_06 24:41

This is news to me.

SPEAKER_01 24:42

Yes. So she totally knew that. She knew. Come on now. Just it's okay. I'll be embarrassed. Yeah, in um in Sanskrit, because you know, we all can read and write Sanskrit, of course. You know, um but in Sanskrit it means divine or goddess. How does that feel?

SPEAKER_06 25:01

I'm finding this out for the first time. Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_01 25:03

So your dad's over there laughing right now. He's like, yeah, um, that's my little girl.

SPEAKER_06 25:08

So where I got Deva from is just like a very, very, very, very, very loose interpretation of my last name. Okay. If you've ever seen a bit where people do and they'll take like lyrics or a word into Google Translate and they'll flip it into a different language, and they'll send it back and forth like a bunch of times until it means something completely different.

SPEAKER_04 25:29

Like a game of telephone.

SPEAKER_06 25:30

Yeah, that's essentially what I did. Um so my last name is Derwart. In the German pronunciation, it's Deavat. So then I was like, okay, how would an American kind of like butcher Deavat? Like with an American accent, I got De Deavart, and I kind of just like played with the noise until I got to Deva, which I just thought sounded cool.

SPEAKER_01 25:50

Well, apparently you now speak Sanskrit. So congratulations on that. And you had to go to college for it.

SPEAKER_05 25:56

Yeah. Awesome.

SPEAKER_01 25:58

Um we had mentioned that you recently got engaged. Um I know I know your fiance well. He um not just him, but you both are extremely, extremely talented photographers and videographers. Um I'm I'm impressed by everything you guys do. How long have you been involved in doing that?

SPEAKER_06 26:16

Is that something that uh that was a hobby or yeah, so we've we've had the business for three and a half? Three and a half years now.

SPEAKER_01 26:23

Pitch your business, pitch it. We're you're on the radio.

SPEAKER_06 26:25

Yeah, so um so we we are the co-founders of Blue J Media. We offer professional photography, videography. Evan is a licensed drone drone pilot. Um, and we do a lot of things. We do gig photography and videography for bands, we do uh social media or promotional videos for businesses, we do a little bit of weddings. Um, but if you need a video, there's a really good chance that there's a lot of things.

SPEAKER_01 26:49

And Evan's here taking photographs tonight.

SPEAKER_06 26:52

He is, yes, he's extremely talented.

SPEAKER_01 26:54

He is extremely talented. So uh have you ever had anything published?

SPEAKER_06 26:58

Uh like art on a photograph or well our uh the photos that Evan took at Harmony Woods were the photos that were on the uh the the news.

SPEAKER_01 27:08

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_06 27:09

Yeah, so so some of those photos. Um we did the Al Susky Banquet a few months ago, and Christy was there, and those photos that we took were also on the same news channel. They took it down. We were on a billboard by the Falston Walmart. You were on a billboard, really? Yeah, one of our making it big. So it was a a client of ours. I was I was driving and I I noticed the photo, so it wasn't a billboard that we put up, but I was like, that's that's a photo that Evan took. That's your own photo that Evan took. Um it's a pool company called Woodfield Outdoors. We've we've done some marketing for that in the past, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 27:46

So what fulfills you the most would it be if you had to make your choice between music and photography and videography?

SPEAKER_06 27:54

That's it, yeah. I I like having a blend, honestly. Um, because I think if it was if it was only videography or only music, it's it becomes less of a passion when it's your sole form of income.

SPEAKER_01 28:16

Absolutely, I completely agree. Yeah, I completely agree, especially nowadays. Yeah, I completely agree.

SPEAKER_06 28:22

Yeah, but it's it's it's meaningful in different ways. The music, obviously, there's there's like the emotional connections and and the people and the community that you meet, but also you know, for the the photos and videos, I love uh being creative and I love helping people create things that help them. Um but in both aspects it's it's being creative and and helping people essentially is the core of both items. I I'm assuming you've probably taken a lot of the pictures of um like uh what kind of shows are you gonna do weddings and and yeah, we've we've done a couple weddings, we've done lots of events, Bull Roasts, um Bingo.

SPEAKER_01 29:02

That's kind of cool though to actually have a part in somebody's life, right? You know what I mean? You're the one that's actually freezing that particular part of time before them. It's that's really cool. Yeah, very, very cool. So um what do you guys have coming up?

SPEAKER_04 29:18

Slate Farm Brewery, July 25th. And that's located. That is located where is it located?

SPEAKER_06 29:24

It's uh Darlington, Maryland.

SPEAKER_04 29:29

And uh we usually do a four-hour set there. But also the special part about that day is it's actually our trumpet player John Mysey and our bass player Greg Daffron's birthday on the same day.

SPEAKER_01 29:41

Big shout out to John Myze. Friend of mine. Melts faces. But uh, so they have you have a double birthday.

SPEAKER_04 29:49

Double birthday, and it's my anniversary with my fiance that day. Really? So I'm gonna try to do everyone's like, hey, are you doing something special? I'm like, we're just gonna jam out, and uh it's special to me, you know. That's cool. Maybe get extra rowdy. Who knows?

SPEAKER_00 30:05

Bring a cake with the logo on it or something, you know.

SPEAKER_01 30:08

Actually, that wouldn't be bad.

SPEAKER_00 30:09

I mean, with my grateful dead cake, of course. You know, because I know he's a head just like myself. Yeah, yeah. Or uh or morphine. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 30:18

Yeah, this is true. This is true. Um, I think you have some solo work coming up, right?

SPEAKER_06 30:23

I do. I I don't know when my next solo gig is. I know I'm gonna be at pairings on Halloween.

SPEAKER_01 30:28

Are you? So you have a Halloween gig?

SPEAKER_06 30:30

I do have a Halloween gig, so I'm nice.

SPEAKER_01 30:31

Are you gonna dress up?

SPEAKER_06 30:33

Can I borrow your witch hat? Yes, my sister says yes. So yes, I'll be dressing up, probably something supportive.

SPEAKER_01 30:40

For those of you out there, her sister is in the crowd.

SPEAKER_04 30:43

She's very shy. Do you have any Halloween costume ideas for an eight-person band? We thought of the Wizard of Oz. What was the other one? Little Rascals with Alfalfa on them.

SPEAKER_01 30:53

I'm telling you, the rug rats. I'm telling you. The rugs. I want to know who's playing Chucky. Chucky. He was the best one. He was the right, he was the redhead, he was the ginger, you know. But um, that would actually what's that?

SPEAKER_06 31:05

Magic school bus. I can be Miss Frizzle.

SPEAKER_04 31:08

Oh, gosh. Wait, that would be so. Have you not been Miss Frizzle before in any year of your life?

SPEAKER_06 31:12

No, have I? No.

SPEAKER_04 31:14

That's surprising.

SPEAKER_06 31:14

No, I haven't.

SPEAKER_04 31:15

You're probably the lizard. A fairy princess.

SPEAKER_01 31:19

That's a red princess.

SPEAKER_06 31:20

I've been a fairy princess, yes.

SPEAKER_01 31:23

No, it's gotta be something different. Why don't you all go as rock stars? You can go as Janice. I'll go as Michael Somersash. Oh, well, you know, hey.

SPEAKER_04 31:32

I don't know about all that, but that's cool. Yeah, I gotta give him some height first.

SPEAKER_01 31:37

But um, yeah, I mean, you got something something to look forward to. Halloween, that's exciting.

SPEAKER_07 31:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 31:41

I um I like playing Halloween gigs, um, especially when everybody's all hyped up and they're coming out coming in from the parties and they're still dressed up and all it's exciting. But um how about you? You have some solo stuff coming up?

SPEAKER_04 31:54

Not really. Um, I do I started moving into small scale solo stuff because like I like to save the breweries and stuff with the band. Sure. Um, so like I was doing the what's that Chicoteri place in Bel Air. Boards by Dana. Yes.

SPEAKER_06 32:11

Yeah, in Bel Air, Maryland.

SPEAKER_04 32:13

In Belair, Maryland, yeah. Um she's actually a big music person, it seems like. Um her taste in like, and I I gave her Segine too for one uh one evening, and just kind of having that like solo mellow vibe. I like being background music as a solo artist. I started enjoying that more. Yeah. I mean, if if I get the whole band up there, ain't no background music. Ain't no background music. That's gonna be it. Yeah. But I like I'm like, I I don't mind uh because my style is a little bit different solo. I mean I I kind of extract from when I was learning folk and music and bluegrass, you know, soft just softer stuff.

SPEAKER_01 32:54

Um both of you. You should be recording everything you do at home or in the shop or wherever you want to do that. We have some dates.

SPEAKER_04 33:04

Yeah, we have a couple dates for some real recording.

SPEAKER_01 33:07

Yeah, where will you guys be recording? Do you know offhand?

SPEAKER_04 33:10

Jack is here, actually. Jack's gonna be there. Yeah. He's in the audience right there.

SPEAKER_01 33:14

Very cool. You got to meet um uh Kevin Bacon the other night, didn't you? Here at the Star Center in that remote.

SPEAKER_07 33:21

That's so cool.

SPEAKER_01 33:22

That's awesome. Yeah, that's very cool. Uh let's see. What else do we want to touch? Um, how can people get a hold of you guys? You have websites, you have social media.

SPEAKER_04 33:33

Yeah, we have a Facebook page, we got an Instagram page. Um Facebook seems to get the point across pretty well. We also have a YouTube channel that we do. Okay, shout it out. Uh yeah.

SPEAKER_06 33:43

Catbone and the Charm City Centers.

SPEAKER_04 33:45

I believe so on YouTube. I think the the Instagram is just the Charm City Centers.

SPEAKER_01 33:50

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 33:50

Everything else is Cat Bone and the Charm City Centers.

SPEAKER_01 33:53

So everybody should go on there. Yeah. On all your socials, your YouTube follow like logo. Yeah. Very, very cool.

SPEAKER_04 34:00

What's cool is that Fader actually got the artist, his name is uh Sean Dickinson, and he did the draw-up art for like the Flesher cartoon style for like a couple video games that were in the old school, like, you know. Yeah. Um kind of like uh Betty Boop and Popeye and stuff. Right. And he actually did our logo.

SPEAKER_01 34:20

Your logo is awesome. I love the logo with the cigar and the crossbones. I actually I have the t-shirt. I put I actually yeah, I fanboy you guys at uh Harmony Woods. I did buy the t-shirt and the stickers and the lunchbox, and I even got you know, I got the little We should do lunch boxes.

SPEAKER_06 34:36

That's a good idea.

SPEAKER_01 34:37

I got already on the screenshot.

SPEAKER_04 34:40

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 34:40

But you gotta be repping it right now.

SPEAKER_06 34:42

He's gotta be.

SPEAKER_01 34:43

It's all about supporting.

SPEAKER_00 34:44

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 34:45

It's all about supporting all the local artists.

SPEAKER_04 34:48

Um cat yourself up.

SPEAKER_01 34:50

So we're gonna take a break in a few minutes, everybody. Um, take a few uh we're gonna break everything down, get these guys ready to perform live for you. I would love to hear one of your originals if the two of you can pull something out of one of your hats. But before I do that, um I'm gonna touch, we have a couple of giveaways because today being an inaugural uh being an inaugural uh show for Sasha Friends here at the Star Center, um, they were very, very, very gracious enough to provide us with some free tickets to a show here, and it is the boat house row, it is the yacht rocket night. Um it is completely free. You come out here, put your uh captain's hat on, your white shorts, and whatever it is you wear on, you know. But um, so how we're gonna do this is everybody that's here tonight is in the drawing. That's how it works. Um your name will be in a bucket. Um, we'll draw names, and there is a total of six tickets, two to a person, I guess, or two to you know to each person. Um, and when we come back, we will give these away. How does that sound? Everybody ready to get some free tickets to the Star Center? Yeah, boathouse row. I checked them out. You guys are talented, man. It's a lot of fun. Um, I can see where you can get your friends to come out here and have a blast. You know what I mean? You know, head out of here and then head down to uh Coakley's or one of the you know, one of the fantastic places. Oh, shout out to Coakley's pub. That's right. That's right. Um so we're gonna take a couple minutes, guys. Thank you, thank you, thank you very, very much. Big shout out, everybody. Take a few minutes, you guys. We have pizza in the kitchen, we have refreshments in the cooler. Please help yourselves. Chris and I are gonna break down, and we are gonna get you guys ready for a live show.

SPEAKER_07 37:17

All the way to new old leaves. He said you look like my future if you know what I mean He offered me a drink as he sat with me at the bar. I told him what I wanted. He said, darling, don't go far. He put close to seven quits for a spirit and we went up and down the woods. It's raining. Strike over the way. Well, yeah, and I thought that I would not ever see that evil bring again Until when I intend to see whiskey on the rocks when who should ring a bill with it, we're whispering new secrets in my eye. He pulled the close to shouting songs for the day. And we went up and down that put it on to the rest of the way to walk down the street in the rain. But all the way to this place. That's what we need to do all these. Can I say? I never met a feeling so compelling, false dwelling. Oh well, we had can't take it back, cannot say, all the way to the top, down straight in the rain, start all the way, got all the witch, and then we call me the swing, that's the light at this and down the ball, and all the way to the door, straight in the rain, start all the witness, but oh one witch, and then we call me the swing. That's the night I did not with the devil on the way to New York.

SPEAKER_04 42:43

This one's a little rusty right now, but well, we're we've been working on it. This one's called Reasons. Um quick memo on it. The reason why I wrote this is because there was a lot of uh contention going on with people acting too quickly, like uh on the news and the tragic things happening. So I just couldn't help but to look at both sides of each story and just say how hard it is for somebody to feel like their life is in danger and have to act out on it. So uh take it how you want it. This is the song that's called Reasons.

SPEAKER_07 43:38

All the right reasons. Baby needs feeding Strawlights buzzing in my teeth, saw the cash, it's all the cat, it's felt with grief. Still, I slipped it in my sleep. Told myself I'd pay it back next week.

SPEAKER_03 44:13

All the right reasons for everything I done. Hands on the trigger. See, this is the best one. If he knew the home good, forgive the cry. Wrong decisions, right? Reasons why I stole. I was tired of them laughing at my tone up. Sister on the hospital cart. Doctors I say pay around. So I kicked in that door with a borrowed gun. He reached I flinch now his blood from my tongue. Everything I burn. Hands on the triggers. And this is the last one. Even though the hunger, you forgive the cry. Wrong decisions, right? All the right reasons for everything I've done. Hands on the trigger, saying this is the last one. If he knew the hunger, you forgive the cry. Wrong decisions, right reasons in my mind.

SPEAKER_02 47:02

And you guys are awesome. Thank you for having us.

SPEAKER_01 47:10

Big shout out to the Star Center. Big shout out to Weatherly Productions. Big shout out to Rise Up Coffee Roasters for uh believing in us and supporting us and uh making her helping us make our dreams come true. Thank you to you guys for coming out this evening and um supporting local music, local art in this facility. Speaking of this facility, we appreciate it if you guys can go on the socials and uh give the Star Center a like, give the Opera House a like, um, give them a follow. Uh with Session Friends Podcast, the same thing. Give us a follow, uh, give us a like, and um stay in tune with everything we're doing. We got a lot of incredibly big things happening here um in the near future, and um we really hope that you guys can be a part of it. So uh thank you guys so much. Um be careful heading home tonight, and uh we'll catch you on the other end. Uh to everybody out there in the session. Don't forget the boss comes. Don't argue with them.