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we love featuring local artists on our
show and Carissa Morrison is a row nut
based singer-songwriter who has crafted
her own unique sound through life itself
she is joining us now to talk about her
music and to give us a performance
thanks so much for coming on thanks for
having me I'm really excited to be here
so tell us a little bit about you and
how you got your start in music yeah I'm
a Roanoke native so grew up here went to
glimmr high school graduated no three
and moved out west
back in 2010 lived out there for a while
and I just moved back about three years
ago and so been hitting the music scene
since about three years ago okay when
you went out there did you play music
out there as well not really I kind of
went out for school and you know as life
goes you sort of journey through other
things I did a little bit but you know
it's LA so how did you you know start
with music
was it something when you were a kid
yeah yeah I grew up I was pastor's kid
so group in church sing and in church
you know doing all that so that was kind
of where I got my start and yeah then
when I moved back and I really wanted to
start you know working on my own stuff
and figuring out originals I really
started to kind of hunker down and and
feel more solid about doing that and
figuring out you know Who I am as a
writer and an artist so cool so tell us
about your music so I'm a
singer/songwriter I generally play solo
I was so lucky on this album that is
coming out tomorrow the incredible
Katherine Backus added some of her
instrumental tap talents as well as
producing the whole album so she really
adds some nice elements and everything
but generally just acoustic and you
mentioned it tell us about your you're
having an album release party right yes
album release party tomorrow at Sweet
donkey coffee it starts at 6 o'clock I'm
really gonna hope maybe it's not pouring
down rain but even if it's rain or shine
we're either gonna have tents or go
inside something so that's happening
tomorrow we're gonna play through the
whole album and are you playing out
there on the patio we play like under
the porch so there definitely are
covered spots we're gonna maybe set up a
tent there's a beer garden we have a
food truck it's a whole thing so it's
gonna be a whole lot of fun it's also my
birthday so you know just worked out so
birthday album release you know all of
that
so what genre is your music it I guess
most people will probably call it folk
as I you know have an acoustic guitar
but I kind of feel like there's some
soul elements I have a pretty big voice
compared to
probably most folk singers so there's
you know kind of elements of that little
jazz a little bit of okay everything
very cool so tomorrow when people come
out and see you at sweet donkey they can
buy buy your albums and so I'm doing a
digital release so it's all gonna be
available on Spotify iTunes you can go
to my website it's also a link to
download through Bandcamp
so all of those popular digital
platforms it's available on so and if
they're been to suite donkey it's such a
fun experience especially because live
music yeah food truck so I'll let you go
ahead and get them set up but just to
remind her tomorrow she was going to be
there help her celebrate her birthday
and her album release party could take
it away Carissa
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snacks from me
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you
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