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How exciting KV is Natalie Haddad
is live in Bastrop this morning,
with the preview of the fun
weekend ahead. Good morning.
Good morning to you, Yvonne and Rob.
So Daybreak OG watchers may remember
that Bastrop is the 1st place
we had our roadshows and while
we're not doing a roadshow today,
there is a show worth making
the road trip for and that is
the Bastrop music Festival.
It kicks off today and goes on for
the next several days and I've got
some friendly faces with me here
to talk about the music festival.
Please let us know who you are and what
you do for the Bastrop Music Festival.
Good
morning. My name is Ashton Lafuente.
I'm the director of marketing for
visit Bastrop we. Promote tourism.
So in wonderful events like
the Bastrop Music Festival, so
we were talking a little bit off
air a little bit ago and you were
talking about how this area is
kind of always filled with music.
What makes the next few days
so different? You
know, I think we're just,
we're just celebrating that
culture that we experience.
You'll see a lot of locals around
in town on a regular Friday night,
but this time we're bringing in folks
from out of town to share that unique
brand of Texas hospitality with.
So we're inviting our friends to come share.
The magic with us.
I think hospitality, really.
Bastrop is such a good
representation of that.
You all are so friendly and I'll step,
I'll switch places with you if that's OK.
And what part are you playing in
the background music festival.
Thanks. Generally?
Well, I'm with the city of Bastrop,
so I get to help promote the festival
and I've been at all the years past,
but this will be my first year
actually get to play some guitar at the
festival with my good friend Haley.
We're playing at the copper shot
Moonshine Distillery, so check us out.
So we mentioned that that very venue
is right behind the camera over there.
So that's where you're going to be here.
In the downtown strip, you get to
be a part of putting on the festival
and then get to be in the festival.
What is that like for you?
It's really an honor.
This thing has been going four or
five years, something like that.
And so to kind of help promote it,
but then to actually be a
part of it really is kind of
a cool feeling for me. Yeah.
And and please tell us your name and who
you're going to be performing with so that
people know who exactly who to look for
if they're watching Daybreak right now.
Well, I'm calling and I play guitar
for my good friend Hailey tuck.
And you gotta check her out.
And what sort of genre would you say?
You, you and your friend Haley playing
wow. So Halley's, she's on a plane
back right now from Portugal.
She plays this kind of vintage jazz
sound that's really, really cool.
But we got her over here and we're
kind of getting a little twang to
it and all that kind of thing.
Twang to it. Is that not just so central TX?
I'm going to switch places with you.
Now that we're on the topic of genres,
I'm joined by some of our
musicians that we're going to see
at the Bastrop Music Festival.
Please tell us who you are.
I'm Jonas Wilson.
Jonas Wilson. Love the shades,
especially for 6:00 o'clock in the morning.
Musicians have to keep.
Aesthetic, right?
You guys tell us what we can expect
from you for the next several days.
I'm an electronic Americana musician.
Gets the best way I could describe myself.
I'm playing at 602 brewery on Saturday
night and I'm really looking forward to it.
It's going to be fun. Will
you be playing your own music?
Will you be playing any covers?
Like what? What exactly are we
expecting from you specifically?
It's 99% original music.
There's maybe one or two covers
that I sneak in there, but yeah,
mostly original stuff. Wonderful.
And I'm gonna switch spots
with you if that's OK.
Please introduce yourself and
let us know what we can expect.
And you for the next few days,
my name is Phil Hurley. I'm a
Bastrop musician and I have a brand
new record that came out last year.
So I'm gonna be featuring most
of the songs from that new
record. Ohh, congratulations.
What is the name of that record and
what sort of music is on that record?
It's called the Firebird sessions and
I recorded it right here in Bastrop,
TX and it's it's Roots Rock.
It kind of reminds me of like
Neil Young meets Tom Petty.
I love Tom Petty.
I didn't know this beforehand,
so I'm kind of gushing now.
What is 1 message you'd like to
get out to viewers about Bastrop
Music Festival and why it is
worth making the drive over here?
Well, I think back I had a dear
friend who was one of the founders
of South by Southwest in Austin,
and his goal was to bring the
audience of the rest of the
nation to see Austin bands.
And I think we're doing the same thing.
We're throwing a big party
with a bunch of great groups,
but we're encouraging people to see
some of the real homegrown talent here.
Homegrown talent.
I think that is the perfect
way to end these interviews.
That's exactly what you're going to
find here for the next several days.
The Bastrop Music Festival,
again, that's happening downtown.
A lot of the venues here that be
behind us on the strip is exactly where
these performers are going to be.
So please come check it out,
come support these local musicians.
And of course the musicians they're
bringing in from out of town
sounds to me from these friendly
faces that are joining me today,
that it's going to be worth the drive,
worth every bit of your time to be here.
I'll send it back to you with
all those people
they start showing band
right now. Like, you know, I
know we've got all the different
instruments and I'm sure we've got
singers like we could we could
start a band right now. Do it.
Ohh Bastrop, Daybreakers,
we appreciate them coming out so early.
It was great to hear from everyone,
even even the guy who was out
till like 2 or something.
I know, I love the guy, the sunglasses.
He's like, you know,
we just got our local stuff and yeah,
I loved it. It was awesome.